"The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power."
Rahotep is a detective, under orders from his exalted ruler himself. If you think that sounds fairly normal for a book, I should add that said exalted ruler is the Pharaoh, and our detective lives in Ancient Egypt. Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead brings forth a stunning mystery set smack-dab in the middle of the desert. What has happened to the most beautiful woman in all the land, right before an important festival? And just like in modern times, the detective works under a tight deadline, except this one is deadlier than any of ours could ever be. Find the Queen - and save your family.
She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes ...
(from Goodreads)
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