Monday, December 31, 2018

'ARTEFACT' - The Rothstone family curse came with an ancient Egyptian canopic jar



'ARTEFACT'  New fiction (excerpt)


“Then how can I help?” Anson said.

“I need to employ the services of an unusual Egyptologist, one who is prepared to work in, let’s say, unconventional ways.”

“You mean a renegade?”

“I mean someone who has the power to turn back time, the power to turn back the clock over a century.”

“Sorry, I don’t have a time machine, Lady Anita.”

“No, but you have a knack of finding things and a reputation for dealing with esoteric finds. I want you to help me. I want you to help me find the exact site of my jar’s discovery in Egypt, using my great grandfather’s maps and diaries. Help me take the jar back to Egypt and secretly rebury it with my own hands in the very spot where my ancestors found it.”

“Smuggling ancient Egyptian antiquities in reverse?” he said.

She had his attention.

It was a concept that seemed to be on the right side of history, although probably as illegal as spiriting antiquities out of Egypt.

But finding a pit in Egypt?

After the Arab Spring revolution and the wholesale digging by antiquity thieves, parts of Egypt had become cratered with holes like a lunar landscape, as photos from space satellites revealed.

It might be harder than finding a lost tomb.

Especially when wind and shifting sands started filling the holes....

NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURE.
'ARTEFACT' Now launched on AMAZON KINDLE


Friday, December 28, 2018

NEW. 9th adventure in the Anson Hunter Egypt series > 'ARTEFACT'





'ARTEFACT' Now launched on AMAZON KINDLE

A traveling antiques show at an English castle...

A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths...

Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it.

But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away.

And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent to the west from the ancient land of Egypt’?

Thursday, December 27, 2018

How does a mysterious ancient Egyptian jar spread such malignancy?


'A R T E F A C T' New mystery adventure fiction on AMAZON KINDLE

    
It began on a traveling antiques show at an English castle...

A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths...
Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it.
But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away.
And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent to the west from the ancient land of Egypt’?

'Legends curl around curses like Cleopatra's asp,' Anson thought.

 New - available on Amazon Kindle.  "ARTEFACT"

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

"ARTEFACT" Whose viscera did the ancient Egyptian canopic jars hold?

 
NEW mystery adventure fiction (Kindle)


(excerpt)


Anson sat at a leather-topped desk with a pile of volumes and papers in front of him and began an archaeological dig into the history of a curse.

Researching a curse was like holding up a citrine, a multifaceted quartz crystal, and looking inside its dreamlike heart, he thought.
Refractions, shards of mystery, created phantoms.

In the distorted reflections familiar imagery arose - the motifs of curses that were as inevitable as doom itself.

Curses gathered tropes around themselves like victims.

They canonically began with some act of arrogance, the reckless theft by someone of an object from a sacred or forbidden place, a solemn warning issued, a doomed, aristocratic family, a wealthy estate and dynastic inheritance, revenge with numerous unusual deaths and the arrival of shadowy traditional owners seeking restitution of the artefact generations after its taking.

How was it possible that a cursed object, an inanimate artefact, could radiate such malignancy? 

Monday, December 24, 2018

'A R T E F A C T' New. A family curse from ancient Egypt... grows to threaten the world


New on AMAZON KINDLE
 
A traveling antiques show at an English castle...
A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths...
Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it.
But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away.
And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent to the west from the ancient land of Egypt’?

'Legends curl around curses like Cleopatra's asp.'

 New - available on Amazon Kindle.  "ARTEFACT"




Sunday, December 23, 2018

"ARTEFACT" - 'Mysterious death in a jar from ancient Egypt'

On AMAZON KINDLE and PAPERBACK

A traveling antiques show at an English castle...

A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths...

Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it.

But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away.

And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent to the west from the ancient land of Egypt’?

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Sensational NEW TOMB, Sakkara - Egypt has not yet given up all of her secrets




You can see more photos and story here (Ahram online)

Perhaps this is why I have written dozens of ancient Egypt-based thriller adventures.
Stories, like new discoveries in Egypt, are unending!

Sunday, December 9, 2018

The PRINCESS Who Lost Her Scroll of the Dead... Egypt adventure out of this world

2 Egypt Fantasy Titles in One.

1. The Princess Who Lost Her Scroll of the Dead
Her priceless Book of the Dead is swapped for a blank one by a greedy royal scribe... How can Nefera find her way through the
dangerous gateways and guardians of the Egyptian underworld without her magical spells - her passport to the world beyond?
And who is the boy tomb robber Ipy, sharing her journey? Is he alive, or dead?

2.
CURSES! The Egyptian Museum Mystery

Karoy and his companions - a squad of Egyptian wooden soldiers created to protect a tomb owner - arise when the Lady Tiy is stolen from the museum. Can they rescue her from the outside world?

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

What is your favourite ancient Egypt fiction genre?

Do you like modern suspense/mystery/thriller fiction set against the backdrop of the mysterious ancient past?

Try favourites like the Anson Hunter series about an ironic alternative Egyptologist who has a healthy respect for dangers from the ancient past. (Latest in the series is new 'ARTEFACT' *****5 stars, Goodreads.)

Or 'The Egyptian Mythology Murders' (trilogy) - "Love this genre" *****5 stars, Amazon UK.

Or a whole library of stand alone adventures on Amazon Kindle.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

"Gleaming like the golden barque of Ra", a satellite probes the shadowy secrets of ancient Egypt. Anson Hunter fiction series.


Echoing Ra, the satellite rides in a sun-synchronous orbit

“This is a new view of Egypt,” he said. “Thanks to satellite technology.”

He clicked on a photograph of a satellite in space.

“This is a satellite gazing down on Egypt from an altitude of 570 kilometres. It gleams in the heavens like the golden barque of the sun god Ra, powered by sails in the form of outspread solar panels. Gold covers its 1.4-ton body like the flesh of the gods - a skin of gold-coated Mylar. Pure, imperishable gold not only protects it from corrosion on the outside. The sacred metal also forms its veins and nerves in gold wires and gold-plated electronic circuits and contacts for switches, relays and connectors.

“Echoing Ra, the satellite rides in a sun-synchronous orbit, and, from its inclination of 98 degrees, it sees Egypt below, in particular our focus for today, the most ancient burial ground said to be the legendary burial place of the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris, and birthplace of the cult of death and resurrection. But unlike Ra in his other form as Aton the sun disk, the satellite does not send down rays ending in little beneficent hands to touch the land. Instead it sends a series of radio wave pulses at the rate of 1,700 per second to probe the density of objects on the ground and beneath the dry sand, which it collects in a backscatter of echoes. Then it ponders this knowledge, analyses it and communicates it to mankind through visions seen on a screen.

“It sees stone temples, chapels, mud-brick enclosures, boat graves – a fleet of fourteen 23-metre long boats marooned in an ocean of desert. It sees mounds of broken pottery, spoil heaps, the spectral signatures of tombs of the earliest kings...”


Friday, November 2, 2018

On Kindle EXCITING EGYPT OFFERINGS

Mystery and Thriller Fiction 


Offering Egypt at its most mysterious and enthralling.
Kindle and paperback. 
NEW

Sunday, October 21, 2018

The forbidden wisdom and power of Egypt - in 'The Forbidden Glyphs'.

British Museum
 
In the tradition of mystery adventure thrillers   'The Smiting Texts' and 'The Ibis Apocalypse'  ... 'The FORBIDDEN GLYPHS'...
Egypt’s Lost Library of secrets and technology. Trigger for a dangerous new age.
Imagine a cache of glyphs of unthinkable power.

Renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter does. In fact, he has a controversial theory that somewhere in Egypt lies the Lost Library of Thoth, guarded by his consort the goddess Seshat.

In legend, this library contained all the forbidden knowledge of ancient Egypt, both human and divine, including secrets of lost technology that built the pyramids.

Anson’s theory throws him into conflict with international seekers who have dangerous agendas for the world.
To save a loved one, Anson Hunter must seek the forbidden glyphs in an ingenious lost sanctuary guarded by traps set by the calculating goddess Seshat.

For unseen dangers and forbidden texts, see
AMAZON 






Ancient Egypt Mystery in Fiction


Monday, October 15, 2018

Was magic (heka) the power behind the civilisation of ancient Egypt?



What if words from Egypt's ancient past could kill… and nobody listened to a renegade archaeologist's warning....
Could the power of ancient evil ‘smite’ across time?
Meet the archaeologist adventurer Anson Hunter in the first in an archaeology thriller series, followed by The Hathor Holocaust, The Ibis Apocalypse, The Anubis Intervention, Egypt Eyes, The Forbidden Glyphs and The God Dig.

Anson's special knowledge as an alternative Egyptologist and theorist may be the key to stopping a catastrophe.

Saturday, October 13, 2018

TOUCH EGYPT – or why I prefer my fiction on Kindle... Egypt investigative excitement at your fingertip


Digital Egypt fiction reading

Today, I prefer ‘in touch’ e-fiction to the 'dead-tree technology' of printed books... (though I still love, and am eternally indebted to, print)

I never thought I'd say it.

While I sell fiction in both forms, I get far more satisfaction from selling my ancient Egypt adventure thrillers in e-book form than in paperbacks.


Maybe I'm just over the dead-tree technology of paper publishing. 



Print version

The ebook evolution


There's something alive and immediate about e-books that breathes new life into reading - and being read.  It puts Egypt at your fingertip.

E-books are fresh - they avoid the glacial slowness of book publishing and literary agencies. E-books seem to me to be the perfect medium for capturing and sharing the quicksilver nature of ideas. (You don’t wait up to 2 years for your book to emerge. It's out there while the idea is hot.)

Yet, ironically, there is a permanence about e-books that paper, and even papyrus, could never achieve.

They don't yellow, fade, gather mildew, dust and eventually rot.

You can read in the dark, don't need to angle that bedside lamp just right.

You can live a mobile life and have your books.

They don't smell like books, true, but neither do they smell of dust.

E-books don't go out of print either. They are forever. In fact there is a permanence about e-books that I admire in the ancient Egyptian civilization itself.

So for me it's the perfect way to touch readers and bring a long dead civilization to life.