Did not enjoy this as much as the first book. The two fun elements were Emerson's and Amelia's banter, as well as the brief appearance of Ramses. The elements which were more tedious to read to were the rigidity in Amelia's thinking and judgement in terms of race and sex - it makes sense in terms of the period that she lived in, but wasn't particularly relevant to the plot. 

For that matter, there was a lot of elements that wasn't relevant to the plot and dragged it out. For example, Amelia had a tendency to suspect everyone and mentally review the suspects repeatedly. The side characters were very colorful but didn't really do anything of use, so I didn't really care about what happened to them (it felt like Emerson and Amelia didn't care either - their reaction to one of the deaths was just to shrug and go "that might change my theory of who the murderer is"). An absolutely bizarre dance performance was set up by Emerson at one point for no good reason. The villain seemed to be everywhere doing everything at once. Lastly, Amelia and Emerson were unnecessarily careless, to he point that they could have killed each other and other people more than once.