Review: The Oracle (The Sarah Weston Chronicles #3) by D. J. Niko

Sarah Weston’s latest adventures and archaeological pursuits have taken her to Greece where she is working with her American colleague (and sometimes romantic interest) Daniel Madigan, cataloging artifacts from a near by dig.

In Delphi, there is a cult of neo-pagans who have painstakingly recreated ancient rituals to glorify the god Apollo and deliver oracles to seekers from around the world.

When some antiquities are stolen from a museum in Thebes, Sarah Daniel are drawn into a dark plot….someone is using the Delphian oracle as a smoke screen for an information exchange, which could result in devastating consequences.

Sarah and Daniel are in a race against time and their own personal demons to uncover clues left behind by the ancients. Their mission is to locate the original stone marked with a lost Pythagorean formula. But will they be able to set aside there personal issues and work together before it’s too late?

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Review: The Tenth Saint (The Sarah Weston Chronicles #1) by D.J. Niko

Sarah Weston is in the middle of the biggest dig of her career as an archaeologist in Ethiopia, when she is approached by a local claiming he has ‘rare artifacts’ to show her.

Sarah is skeptical, she knows that most locals are simply out to make a buck but the artifacts have all the authentic markers.

She asks the man to show her where he found the artifacts and what she discovers will change the direction of her exposition.

She finds a sealed tomb with inscriptions in an obscure dialect. When the director of the exposition hears that Sarah has basically gone on a wild goose chase, he sends in reinforcements–anthropologist Danial Madigan.

The tomb she discovered is rumored to be that of Tenth Saint of Coptic Christianity. Sarah and Daniel embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them through the dangerous caves of Ethiopia, through the deserts of the Near East, England, Paris, and Texas.

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Review: The Riddle of Solomon: Book Two (The Sarah Weston Chronicles #2) by D. J. Niko

Get ready for a thrilling ride through the Near East and its history! This is the first book in a while that I’ve stayed up late to devour!

The only way I can describe this book is this: it’s a mixture of Lara Croft Tomb Rider, Indiana Jones, The Mummy, and The Davinci Code.

Now I realize these are mostly film references, but this book was so vivid that I felt like I was watching a film while reading.

If I had to pick a literary reference, I would say it’s a modern day Amelia Peabody mystery that meets The Davinci Code.

It’s full of riddles and codes like The Davinci Code, and it’s got the archaeological mystery mixed with the occult that made both Indiana Jones and The Mummy so popular, plus the action and a bad ass heroine like Lara Croft Tomb Raider!

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