The Mummifier´s Daughter A Novel in Ancient Egypt The Mummifier Daughter Series Book 1 eBook Nathaniel Burns
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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 femalemummifier 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.
What Customers Say
"CSI Ancient Egypt! Neti was a strong character that I quickly came to care about." - Wendy Scott, Fantasy Author of The Windflowers Trilogy Golden Scarab
"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, Autho of The Divided Island
"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
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The Mummifier´s Daughter A Novel in Ancient Egypt The Mummifier Daughter Series Book 1 eBook Nathaniel Burns
Disappointing. Women actually had many rights in ancient Egypt. Possibly their status was better than in Minoan Crete. Further, desecration of the dead would have struck Egyptians of the time with horror - they believed that only with a whole body could one enter the afterlife. I am not sure about women embalmers, but plenty of women served as priestesses and ISIS was the first to use embalming with Osiris. I doubt a woman with similarities to a goddess would be considered a witch. Egyptians of Ramesses ii being unfamiliar with horses? This is several years after Tut. Horses would be familiar to anyone familiar with aristocrats or military or the time. It's not a bad mystery story, but placing it in Ramesses ii Egypt period seems to be a total after thought.Product details
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The Mummifier´s Daughter A Novel in Ancient Egypt The Mummifier Daughter Series Book 1 eBook Nathaniel Burns Reviews
I love reading all things about Egypt and have always been fascinated with the mummification process so getting this book was a no brainer for me. I don't know about its historical accuracy but I did enjoy the setting, the plot and most of the characters. It has quite a few twists and turns and kept my interest throughout the book. I have always hated when people condemned a story because of a lack of editing. Unfortunately, I am going to do the same with this book. I can usually skip over misspelled words if they are the correct words, but putting quail in for quill and misspelling one of the characters name throughout the book, and using summons in place of summon (every time) became annoying. My first thought also was that maybe English was not his first language. A friend of mine has published a book and to save on costs, you don't even have to have anyone look at the book before you put it up for sale.
That being said, I do hope there is a sequel as the book ended rather abruptly and I will read it even if it hasn't been proofed. I would also buy other books by this author to see if I enjoyed it as much as this one.
When you purchase a book with a title like "The Mummifier's Daughter", you expect some grisly details about the mummification process as part of the book. There was none of that - what there was (for example) was 4 pages of the description and emotions of a serial killer removing the still-beating hearts of living victims. More effort seemed to be put into that lurid description than fleshing out the one-dimensional characters, who had the potential to be very interesting. Not for those sensitive to violence.
I see others posting comments about lack of historical accuracy and problems with words used incorrectly, etc. There are some clues in the text that let me know that this person either lives in the British Isles (at this time, there is no information on the author on the page) or has had an education that is influenced by a British background. One clue is the usage of the word "whilst" which has not been used here in a very long time. We in the U.S. do some things quite differently when it comes to some usage of words, some idioms, and punctuation, not to mention that if this is someone who has just recently started writing and self-publishing, there may be need to earn some money so that he can hire a good editor no matter where this is being released, but especially for the U.S. market place. For example, at about 7% there is the use of the word elevate and it would make more sense if it was alleviate; at about 8% the word tuition is used, when we might use tutelage; and some grammar bumps in the road that are quite commonly used in everyday speech, such as at about 10% a sentence that started with "Her and her parents were..." I sure hope this gets some excellent editing so that the book can get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately, some will not even attempt to read the book because of this.
The story is quite entertaining. I like the characters and the mystery is well done, keeps you guessing for quite awhile, with a story that is tied up nicely as to the immediate issues, but still leaves you hoping for more and there is a chance of it becoming a series, as it was not totally tied up in a nice bow - there is an evil one still lurking in the dark.
As to one reviewer complaining that it was not historically accurate....well, I knew it was fiction to begin with and, since I am not reading this book as a textbook and for a fictional escape, I don't think that really matters too much.
Once more, I just think we need to give credit where it is due, for this new author who wrote an entertaining and engaging story. Relax and enjoy it.
This is the first book in the Egyptian mystery series set in the ancient age of the Pharoah Ramses II. The "detective" is a young girl whose father was an embalmed and taught her his trade. She is said to be able to "speak to the dead" because her studies of bodies gives her insights I to what and who caused the deaths. She is called to investigate some strange deaths by the Prefect of Thebes. The bodies are missing their hearts and from the evidence at the scenes it appears the victims were alive when this happened.
When Neti's parents become the next victims, the investigation becomes personal for her. The murders seem to be related to gems smuggling that the Pharoah wants investigated, but the closer Neti and the Prefect get to solving the two mysteries, the more dangerous it gets.
A good first book, the language is a bit stiff and formal but a good plot and some interesting information on government and ancient Egyptian embalming make this a good read. I already bought book 2 and am looking forward to reading it.
It simply isn't very good. The author has no great facility with descriptive language or realistic dialogue and only a passing acquaintance with proper grammar. It appears to be written on a 6th to 8th grade level. I usually remain silent when I've read a book that falls far below its star rating, but that's part of the problem. The star ratings on are virtually meaningless because so many of us don't speak up.
Disappointing. Women actually had many rights in ancient Egypt. Possibly their status was better than in Minoan Crete. Further, desecration of the dead would have struck Egyptians of the time with horror - they believed that only with a whole body could one enter the afterlife. I am not sure about women embalmers, but plenty of women served as priestesses and ISIS was the first to use embalming with Osiris. I doubt a woman with similarities to a goddess would be considered a witch. Egyptians of Ramesses ii being unfamiliar with horses? This is several years after Tut. Horses would be familiar to anyone familiar with aristocrats or military or the time. It's not a bad mystery story, but placing it in Ramesses ii Egypt period seems to be a total after thought.
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