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For all her bejeweled beauty and warm wisdom, and despite all her dreams for her glorious Egypt, beloved Nefertiti is dead. Lord Meren not only suspects homicide, but is certain the culprit must be a personage of high power at court.

Shrewd Meren knows that the pharaoh has more than his share of burdens ruling a kingdom in turmoil; he does not need the specter of royal murder added to the load. And so the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh, as the powerful Meren is called, elects to pursue his investigation of Nefertiti's death under the dark cloak of secrecy.

From the start, the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh is rendered blind and deaf at every turn. When he wants to question the queen's cook, she disappears. When he seeks the steward, the man is conveniently killed. But with the help of his keen-witted son and a fearless Greek pirate, as well as some purloined papyri, progress is made.

As court mysteries mount, Meren's agitated behavior spurs the king's distrust. Worse yet, the beleaguered councillor is suddenly beset with scandal and calamity at every turn.

WHO HAS DARED TO DESECRATE THE SACRED PLACE OF EMBALMING WITH A MURDERED CORPSE?

Pharaoh Tutankhamun orders Lord Meren, his chief investigator, to find our quickly, before power-mad priests use the incident to undermine his royal authority.

Everyone is a suspect, for the body belongs to the notorious scribe Hormin, hated by all who knew him. However, Lord Meren is no mere courtier but the Eyes and Ears of the living god. In the terrifying Place of Anubis, where unquiet spirits dwell, in the sunstruck city of Thebes, where Hormin's sons and his beautiful concubine plot, and in the royal court, where intrigues abound, Lord Meren hunts his quarry, peeling back the secrets of nobles and slaves in his quest for the truth. But more important by far is Meren's responsibility to protect the young Pharaoh from his enemies-who are no farther away than the length of a dagger....

"CHARMING...CLEVER...Features enough robbery, murder and ka-jacking to satisfy the most modern tastes...Robinson's research, both criminological and archaeological, serves her well."
- San Jose Mercury News

"FIRST OF A PROMISING SERIES...Robinson's modern sensibility shines through the period trappings in the particularly repellent crime that the murders are committed to conceal."
- Kirkus Reviews

When a priest dies in a mysterious fall from atop a statue of Tutankhamun, many consider the death a fateful one for the fourteen-year-old pharaoh and his reign.

Indeed, the Hittites are already at Egypt's borders, and the enemies of the late heretic pharaoh Akhenaten have transferred their implacable hatred to the young pharaoh. Concealed by the luxury of the court at Thebes lie viciousness, evil, and murder. Not even Lord Meren - the confidential inquiry agent who must see to the boy king's safety - can name the master plotters. But until the enemies of the living god are destroyed, neither his body nor his soul is safe from their deadly poison....

"Robinson knowledgeably instructs readers in the cultural and political life of a fascinating period in history while entertaining use with a puzzling plot, accessible characters, and the domestic details of their daily lives."
- Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

"DELIGHTFUL...Robinson makes ancient Thebes come alive as she describes the personalities, clothing, golden jewelry, the intrigue, and the smells of the desert, the terrors of a hippo hunt."
- San Francisco Examiner

The small group gathered at Lord Meren's country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai, Meren's cousin-in-law, falls victim to murder - an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True, she had myriad lovers and a scorpion tongue, but why was her body arranged so meticulously, as if for sleep? The most dreadful possibility is that the crime has to do with Lord Meren's awesome undercover mission for the pharaoh, for which his feast of rejoicing is in part of cover. This mission cannot, must not, fail. Ruthlessly stripping bare the deepest secrets of the nest of cobras who are his nearest relatives, Meren finds the thread that leads to the truth and the unmasking of a shocking crime in the court of the living god....

"DELICIOUS...Robinson makes history live and breathe again."
- The New York Times Book Review

"As Robinson deftly juggles ancient Egyptian political intrigue and a riveting mystery, she proves again her mastery of the historical whodunit."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Someone-or something-is slaying innocent persons on the night streets in the royal city of Memphis. Frightened citizens believe it is the gruesome work of the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Even Lord Meren, the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh, is baffled by this series of horrific crimes whose victims have only one thing in common: the grisly manner of their deaths.

Is the evildoer truly the Devourer, risen from the netherworld, or a mere mortal? Between Lord Meren and the truth lie dangerous mysteries-in the city's back alleys and in the bosom of his own noble family....

"[AN] EXCELLENT SERIES...Robinson again brings ancient Egypt alive in all its detailed specificity while offering a timeless tale of serial killings and the lust for power."
- Publishers Weekly(starred review)

"Anther entrancing historical...from the author of Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing."
- Library Journal

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