A review by rlse
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

5.0

Fascinating, tragic, horrifying, and utterly engrossing. I had seen shades of the truth beginning to appear, but then about 80% through I realized--BAM!--I had been Rashomon'ed. I listened to this on CD, and it's another instance where that experience strongly colored my interface with the story. It is basically epistolary, and the audio version has different actors for each narrator, which is unusual. However, the personalization of each character had me constantly switching allegiances. I'm also glad that the audio version made me take the story in slowly, so that I could fully appreciate all the intricate layers. I had been listening in my car, but I got so involved for the last two discs that I brought them inside and devoted a couple hours to sitting and listening like some wartime family hearkening to a fireside chat.