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Princess of Egypt
(2015)(The second book in the Mummifier's Daughter series)
A novel by Nathaniel Burns
Egypt, 1233 BC
Neti-Kerty's reputation as Egypt's first female mummifier has apparently reached all the way to the Pharaoh. Neti-Kerty and Shabaka, Special Investigator and Prefect of Thebes, are astonished to be summoned to the palace of Ramses II to investigate the sudden death of the Vizier Khay. Thanks to her powers of deduction and knowledge of the dead, Neti soon determines that something is amiss.
As more people disappear during the investigation, the situation increasingly gets out of handl and before long Neti and Shabaka find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul....
Princess of Egypt returns us to a land steeped in gods, god-kings, ritual and magic. It paints for the reader a detailed picture of Pharaonic Egypt in all its shadowed glory. Faithfully recreating one of the most remarkable eras in Egypt's history, bestselling author Nathaniel Burns weaves a shudderingly ominous tale of ancient Egypt's mysteries revealed through a cast of characters the modern reader will recognize even though millenia have passed.
So light up the incense, sit close to the light and draw back the curtains on the shadowed past with this gripping tale of love and intrigue among the living and the dead in one of history's most intriguing civilizations ...
Customer Reviews
- "CSI: Ancient Egypt! Neti was a strong character that I quickly came to care about." - Wendy Scott, Fantasy Author of The Windflowers Trilogy
- "The characters wonderfully woven, I could see what they saw, feel what they felt. It was a nonstop read! I loved it!" - Marigoldsnzinnias
- "A fun historical mystery with a twist." - Woodsusa
- "Compelling and gentle, a mystery and a romance in one." - Ladycaviar, Washington, DC
- "I enjoyed this book immensely. Snappy, action filled plot." - Edna Lucretia Williams
- "Burns uses a thrilling hunt for a murderer to skillfully reveal the secret practices of ancient Egypt's embalmers and other of its mysteries." - Patricia De Hemricourt
- "This Book will take you on a journey like none you've ever experienced before." - Jay V.
- "I have only one thing to say: Excellent!" - Rachel "savvygirl"
Genre: Historical
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