After reading Homegoing and Don Quixote I was ready for a quick fix, and these two thrillers by Will Adams fit the bill. Both novels are archaeological mysteries of the looking-for-treasure-in-a-hidden-tomb variety, with lots of bad guys with guns in exotic settings. The main character, Daniel Knox, is an American ex-pat archaeologist who has settled in Egypt to pursue his career while making a little side money as a diving instructor. In
Alexander Cipher he gets hopelessly embroiled with gangsters, Macedonian Extremists, and corrupt Egyptian bureaucracy. In Exodus Quest he is accused of murder by the third chapter, while his girlfriend, fellow archaeologist Gaille Bonnard, is kidnapped a few chapters later.

As it happens, the archaeological mysteries in these books are not fiction, and Adams goes in to quite a bit of detail about the different theories of where Alexander the Great is buried with all his treasures and the history of the Essenes and the Jews in Egypt. So if you are an amateur Egyptologist and like a good mystery, these books are for you. Actually my only complaint is that it seems the rest of the series is not yet available in Kindle version, otherwise I would surely be whipping my way through Book 3: The Lost Labyrinth.