It is with great sadness we relay the news that library favorite, Barbara Mertz (a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters) passed away on August 8th at the age of 85.
Under her pseudonym as Barbara Michaels she has written twenty-nine novels of suspense. As Elizabeth Peters, she had produced more than 35 mystery-suspense novels, many of them set in Egypt and the Middle East, featuring the intrepid Amelia Peabody. Under her own name, she authored several nonfiction books about ancient Egypt, still in print today.
She will be greatly missed, but her books will continue to live on, engaging readers far into the future.
– Annie