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N.L. Holmes
Full Series List in Order
Empire at Twilight
1 - The Lightning Horse (Feb-2020)2 - The Singer and Her Song (May-2020)
3 - The Queen's Dog (Jul-2020)
4 - The Sun at Twilight (Feb-2021)
A Hani's Daughter Mystery
1 - Flowers of Evil (Jul-2023)A Lord Hani Mystery
1 - Bird in a Snare (Mar-2020)2 - The Crocodile Makes No Sound (Jun-2020)
3 - Scepter of Flint (Jul-2020)
4 - The North Wind Descends (Oct-2020)
5 - Lake of Flowers (Jul-2021)
6 - Pilot Who Knows the Waters (Jun-2022)
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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The Lightning Horse
- Feb-2020
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When a young Hittite charioteer discovers that the chariot accident that killed his father and maimed his grandfather was sabotage aimed at the king, he sets out to find the killer. Facing the loss of everyone he holds dear, he learns that good and e...
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Bird in a Snare
- Mar-2020
- / General Fiction
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When Hani, an Egyptian diplomat under Amenhotep III and IV, is sent to investigate the murder of a useful bandit leader in Syria, he encounters corruption, tangled relationships, and yet more murder. His investigation is complicated by the new king's...
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The Singer and Her Song
- May-2020
- / Historical
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Uqnitum is a singer from a famous musical lineage in the kingdom of Mitanni. When the fall of their city to the Assyrians costs her the life of her husband and her youngest child, she and her pregnant, widowed daughter flee to the court of Ugarit. Ha...
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The Crocodile Makes No Sound
- Jun-2020
- / General Fiction
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Four years into Akhenaten's new regime, the dissatisfaction of those who practiced the old religion of Amen-Ra is growing. Hani, a diplomat already under the king's surveillance because of the disappearance of his firebrand Amen priest brother-in-law...
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The Queen's Dog
- Jul-2020
- / Historical
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In the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom of Ugarit, a eunuch slave mistakenly believes his mistress the queen loves him, so when asked to spy on her under threat of punishment, he finds a way to avoid it. When she shows she cares nothing for him, he justifie...
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Scepter of Flint
- Jul-2020
- / Historical
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During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani's daughter is a physician, and Egypt's ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usur...
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The North Wind Descends
- Oct-2020
- / Historical
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Hani doesn't know what to make of it when the king starts honoring him, but he must still find the man who killed a foreign ambassador right under the roof of the Egyptian commissioner in Kumidi-a man whose past intersects bizarrely with Hani's. And ...
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The Sun at Twilight
- Feb-2021
- / Historical
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In the twilight years of the Hittite Empire (1230s BC), Tudhaliya IV comes to the throne as a usurper's younger son, determined to rule according to the traditional values of justice and clemency, despite the harder advice of his ambitious mother and...
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Lake of Flowers
- Jul-2021
- / Historical
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Hani is set to investigate thefts from the king's household that turn out to be related to a more sinister attempt on the king's life. Meanwhile, witnesses to the crown prince's dodgy birth begin to die, and Hani fears for his daughter and her friend...
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Pilot Who Knows the Waters
- Jun-2022
- / Historical
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Hani must secretly obtain a Hittite bridegroom for Queen Meryet-amen, but Ay and the faction behind Prince Tut-ankh-aten are opposed--to the point of violence. Does the death of an artisan have anything to do with Ay's determination to see his grands...
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Flowers of Evil
- Jul-2023
- / Historical
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When two young women in ancient Egypt open a medical dispensary, they don't expect their first patient to be a dying florist of Amen whose last words are totally mysterious. It's Neferet and Bener-ib's nature to want to appease the ba of the murder v...
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The Moon That Fell from Heaven
- Oct-2023
- / Historical
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Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary...
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Web of Evil
- Mar-2024
- / Historical
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When a corpse washes up on the riverbank at Lord Hani's country house, his daughter Neferet and her fellow physician Bener-ib and apprentice Mut-tuy head for the local village to try to identify it. But they find themselves entangled in a web of murd...