Carter's Conundrums

Having loved E. Peters' Amelia Peabody series, I looked forward to a modern return to Howard Carter's Egypt. (I'm delighted that my copy has a modern cover design, too.) I liked this story overall, although it was about 100 pages before the story took off. It has humor and armchair travel highlights, and Deal has more than a passing knowledge of Egyptology. She tends to stray into the territory of information for its own sake, and over-explains instead of just getting on with the story. The book could easily be tightened. The typos and 1.5 spaced typesetting were off-putting. But it could be a promising series.