WHO HAS DARED TO DESECRATE THE SACRED PLACE OF EMBALMING WITH A MURDERED CORPSE? Pharaoh Tutankhamun orders Lord Meren, his chief investigator, to find out quickly, before power-mad priests use the incident to undermine his royal authority. Eve...
When a priest dies in a mysterious fall from atop a statue of Tutankhamun, many consider the death a fateful one for the fourteen-year-old pharaoh and his reign. Indeed, the Hittites are already at Egypt's borders, and the enemies of the late here...
The small group gathered at Lord Meren's country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai, Meren's cousin-in-law, falls victim to murder--an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True, she had myriad lo...
Someone--or something--is slaying innocent persons on the night streets in the royal city of Memphis. Frightened citizens believe it is the gruesome work of the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Eve...
Akhenaten had been a dangerous Pharaoh-fanatical, mad, a creator of unrest throughout Egypt. Many welcomed his death. The passing to the underworld of his wife, the beloved Nefertiti, was a different matter. It was murder. Now Lord Meren, confidentia...
The search for Queen Nefertiti’s killer brings terror and treachery to the pharaoh’s investigator in this “marvelous series” (Historical Novel Society). Lord Meren, protector of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, is convinced the boy king’s st...