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.