Eater of Souls

by Lynda S. Robinson

Overview

A spate of murders is either divine justice or earthly evil in this historical mystery that "brings ancient Egypt alive" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
In the city of Memphis in ancient Egypt, multiple victims have been found with their hearts torn from their chests, and white feathers left in their place. The latest corpse belongs to a Hittite prince who insulted King Tut—in whose service Lord Meren works. Now Meren must put aside his quiet inquiries into the death of Queen Nefertiti to investigate this new string of killings. The circumstances suggest the likely culprit is the god Ammut. But if the murderer is in fact mortal, it'll be up to Meren and his adopted son to end the carnage . . .
 
"Lord Meren's fourth case taxes all his skills as investigator, statesman, warrior, householder, and father, while displaying his author's powers of invention and intrigue at their peak." —Kirkus Reviews
 
"Ms. Robinson brings warm life and much wit to the machinations at court." —The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504066532
Publisher:	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Publication date:	05/18/2021
Series:	The Lord Meren Mysteries , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lynda S. Robinson is an American writer of romance and mystery fiction. She is best known for her series of historical whodunnits set in ancient Egypt during the reign of Tutankhamun and featuring Lord Meren, "the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh." Robinson lives in Texas with her husband and has a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Lynda S. Robinson is an American writer of romance and mystery fiction. She is best known for her series of historical whodunnits set in ancient Egypt during the reign of Tutankhamun and featuring Lord Meren, “the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh.” Robinson lives in Texas with her husband and has a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Editorial Reviews

When the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen wants to know who poisoned Nefertiti, Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, Tutankhamen's heretic predecessor on the Egyptian throne, he naturally turns to Lord Meren, his Eyes and Ears. But Meren, just as zealous as his king to root out the mystery behind Nefertiti's death, has his hands full already with a brutal series of killings in Memphis. The victims—an inoffensive farmer, a tavern woman, a thief—don't seem to have anything to do with each other—except that they've all been stunned, slashed and hacked to death with razor-sharp claws, and relieved of their hearts. A terrified witness identifies the killer by her crocodile head, lion's paws, and hippo's hindquarters as the goddess Ammut, the Devouress, Eater of the Dead, against whom there can be no remedy. But when Prince Mugallu, the quarrelsome Hittite king's emissary, becomes the latest victim, Meren finds himself with a potential diplomatic disaster—just at the time that he's trying to repel Lord Reshep, the fawning, narcissistic suitor who's attached himself to Meren's willing daughter Isis. (Now why doesn't the Devouress dispatch him?)

Lord Meren's fourth case (Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing, 1996, etc.) taxes all his skills as investigator, statesman, warrior, householder, and father, while displaying his author's powers of invention and intrigue at their peak—and still leaving plenty of mystery for two promised sequels on Nefertiti's murder.

Kirkus Reviews