A Historical Fiction Series
The Amarna Mysteries
Four novels. Nine years. One detective. Queen Nefertiti investigates murders and conspiracies during the most turbulent decade in Egyptian history.
Justice is not a destination.
It is a practice.
Three deaths 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.
The Books
TL;DR: In brief
The Poisoner’s Throne is planned for September 2026 as a standalone novel. Books Two through Four will publish together as The Restoration Trilogy in early 2027. The Twelve Hours of Night anthology follows in 2027.
The Poisoner’s Throne
Book One · September 2026
Three deaths 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.
The Hittite Reckoning
Book Two · Early 2027
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.
The Restoration Murders
Book Three · Early 2027
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. A serial-murder investigation set during Egypt’s counter-reformation.
The Dakhamunzu Affair
Book Four · Early 2027
Tutankhamun is dead at eighteen. From exile in Nubia, Nefertiti reconstructs what happened and makes her final choice about the evidence she has spent nine years preserving. A cold case reconstruction spanning three thousand years.
The Twelve Hours of Night
Anthology · 2027
Stories from The Amarna Mysteries. A prologue, The Steward’s Report, closes the door on the mortal world; the twelve stories that follow — one for each hour of the night — descend with the souls of the series into the Duat, where they gather on the sun bark to hold back the serpent Apep and see the sun rise.
Enter the Amarna Period
A guide to the most volatile decade of Egypt’s New Kingdom — the history beneath the fiction.