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Shabti

By: Megaera C. Lorenz
Narrated by: Matt Haynes
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Can you flimflam a ghost?

It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spiritualism and false mediums while struggling to stay ahead of his ex-business partner and lover who wants him back at any cost. During a demonstration at a college campus, Dashiel meets Hermann Goschalk, an Egyptologist who’s convinced that he has a genuine haunted artifact on his hands. Certain there is a rational explanation for whatever is going on with Hermann’s relics, Dashiel would rather skip town, but soon finds himself falling for Hermann. He agrees to take a look after all and learns that something is haunting Hermann’s office indeed.

Faced with a real ghost Dashiel is terrified, but when the haunting takes a dangerous turn, he must use the tools of the shady trade he left behind to communicate with this otherworldly spirit before his past closes in.

For listeners who enjoy A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, and Malice by Heather Walter

©2024 Megaera C. Lorenz (P)2024 CamCat Books Fantasy Fiction Historical Haunted Paranormal Ghost City
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Great fun

What is it about spooky ancient Egyptian antiquities that almost always promises a great story? 'The Shabti' didn't fail me. Not at all.

Megaera Lorenz has written a hugely enjoyable and readable story. Weird happenings in a museum, a growing sense of danger and dread, spiritualism, and a pair of heroes who very much aren't your typical leads. Dashiel Quicke is a down-on-his-luck former spiritualist with a past. Hermann Goschalk is an Egyptologist with something very strange going on in his collection of artefacts. Neither of them is young, or much to look at, yet it is lovely how Lorenz weaves in an entirely believable nascent romance between the two men after Goschalk sort-of hires Quicke to solve his problems. It is a sweet offset to all the other shenanigans.

Lorenz doesn't labour the 1930s setting, instead relying on food, dress, domestic surroundings, and a glorious range of period slang to set the scene, The Egyptology rang true, which is hardly surprising given the author's academic interest.

Altogether great fun and well worth a read.

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