Borrower of the Night (#1)
It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For Vicky Bliss - tall, beautiful, and brilliant - it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have been no contest.
The prize was a centuries-old shrine, carved by Tilman Riemenschneider probably Germany's greatest master of the late Gothic. The place was the forbidding Schloß Drachenstein, where the stones were stained with ancient blood and the air reeked of evil.
The problem was that someone had targeted Vicky, and the game was soon being played in deadly earnest.... (Bookcover; TOR Books, 1990; E. Peters 1973)
Street of the Five Moons (#2, 1978)
I'm sorry to say that I haven't read this one yet. I already ordered it but it didn't arrive for quite some time (months now! so never order books at bücher.de!)
Silhouette in Scarlet (#3)
When American art historian Vicky Bliss receives a one-way plane ticket to Stockholm from her former lover, the stage is set for a rendezvouz with danger. Suddenly Vicky finds herself being courted by a dashing Viking, but she never suspects that her life may depend on finding a long-lost Nordic treasure . . . before it's too late. (Synopsis by Amazon.com; Warner Books, 1983)
Trojan Gold (#4)
A picture is worth a thousand words but the photograph Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions, and the answers to some of them are deadly. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof Vicky needs to know that something is very wrong. The picture itself is familiar: A woman dressed in the gold of Troy. This isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann, though. The picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and everyone else knows, disappeared at the end of World War II. And because they all know it, they all gather to renew the search. All of them-including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer. (Bookcover; TOR Books, 1987)
Night Train to Memphis (#5)
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a PH.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11' of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the thief and master of disguises she knows only as 'Sir John Smythe.'And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him...with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab-in-the-back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, Herr Dr. Schmidt, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging...a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill. (Bookcover; Warner Books, 1994)
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