The characters wonderfully woven, I could see what they saw, feel what they felt. It was a nonstop read! I loved it!
The Mummifier´s Daughter - A Novel in Ancient Egypt
by Nathaniel Burns
3.5 stars - 64 reviews
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Ancient Egypt, 1233 BC
This is Young Neti-Kerty‘s dream: To follow in her father’s footsteps and become the first female mummifier in Thebes.
Shabaka, the secretive Prefect, the Pharaoh’s special envoy charged with combating
crime in the capital of the Pharaoh’s empire, also often makes use of
Neti Kerty’s special talents. With her powers of deduction and knowledge of the dead, she has already helped solve many crimes.
But then the unimaginable happens. Her parents are cruelly murdered, and Neti-Kerty’s small, idyllic world shatters. Together with Shabaka the Prefect, she embarks on the search for her parents‘ murderer. Surviving many shared adventures, they stumble upon a monstrous conspiracy...
The Mummifier's Daughter carries us back 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 with 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.
One Reviewer Notes:
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, author of The Divided Island
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