A Historical Fiction Series
Four novels. Nine years. One detective. Queen Nefertiti investigates murders and conspiracies during the most turbulent decade in Egyptian history.
Three rulers die within forty-one days. The boy who will become Tutankhamun inherits a broken throne. And the woman history remembers as a beauty is the only one asking the right question: who poisoned them?
The Amarna Mysteries follows Nefertiti across nine years of Egyptian history, from the collapse of Akhenaten's religious revolution through the reign and death of the young pharaoh she raised as her own. Each book is a self-contained mystery. Together, they form a single argument about power, justice, and the cost of civilization.
Built on Egyptological scholarship. Where the record speaks, the novels listen. Where the record is silent, the novels speak carefully.
Book One · June 2026
Three rulers die within forty-one days. Nefertiti suspects poison, but proving murder means destabilizing the kingdom she is trying to protect. A forensic investigation set against the transition from Amarna to Memphis.
Book Two · Winter 2026
Egyptian soldiers are dying because someone is leaking military secrets to the Hittites. Nefertiti traces the betrayal to the heart of the government she bargained to preserve. An espionage thriller set during the war for Syria.
Book Three · Winter 2026
Officials overseeing the restoration of traditional temples are being killed. The pattern leads Nefertiti to a conspiracy that uses religious reform as cover for political murder. Ends with her flight into exile.
Book Four · Winter 2026
Tutankhamun is dead at eighteen. From exile in Nubia, Nefertiti reconstructs what happened and makes her final choice about the evidence she has spent a decade preserving. A cold case reconstruction spanning three thousand years.
Anthology · 2027
Stories from The Amarna Mysteries. Short fiction set in and around the world of the series, exploring characters, moments, and mysteries that the novels touch only in passing.
