The Stolen Queen

Brigid says: If you love archeology, fashion, and The Mummy, this historical novel about a stolen Egyptian artifact is for you. Beginning in New York City in the 1970s, Charlotte, an associate curator for the Department of Egyptian Art at The Met, and Annie, a young assistant for the museum’s annual Gala, make an unlikely duo when they team up to recover a stolen artifact. Then they realize Charlotte’s fateful time working a dig in the Valley of the Kings forty years earlier is at the heart of the mystery. While sad in parts, I appreciated the story feeling less heavy than most of the other historical fiction I have read. If you are a seasonal reader, this would be a fantastic book to pick up around the first Monday in May to enjoy all the behind-the-scenes peeks into fashion’s biggest night. (Content warnings apply.)