Hani's Daughter Mysteries

When a corpse washes up on the riverbank at Lord Hani's country house, his daughter Neferet and her fellow physician Bener-ib and apprentice Mut-tuy head for the local village to try to identify it. But they find themselves entangled in a web of murder and lies in the heart of a family of weavers. Can the perseverance of three determined women and the bonds of parental love win out, or will Neferet herself become the next victim?

When Neferet's uncle Pipi gets sucked into a get-rich-quick scheme at a chariot workshopthat is too good to be true, she's not surprised when investors start turning up dead. Canshe and Bener-ib and their band of teen-aged detectives find out what's really at stake andwho is behind it before she herself becomes the next victim?

Neferet sets out to hire musicians for her stepdaughter's party, only to find that one of them has been murdered. The perpetrator could be a member of the musical family itself but the main suspect is the guest of honor's husband,Neferet's favorite relative-in-law! This investigation will take her and her colleagues into the heart of the Theban underworld, and they may not get out alive.

In Tutankhamen's Egypt, the vizier's head cook dies suspiciously, and it looks like murder to Neferet and Bener-ib. Only, who would want to kill a cook, a man admired by all? Perhaps he has professional rivals or a jealous wife. But she is the longtime cook of Neferet's family, a dear retainer above reproach. Was her husband the good man he seemed to be, or did he have the shady past our two sleuths begin to suspect? They'd better find out soon before the waters of foreign conspiracy rise around Neferet and her diplomat father. If they can't find the killer, it could mean war with Egypt's enemy, Kheta -- and someone else could die. Maybe one of our nosy sleuths... N.L. Holmes is the pen name of a professional archaeologist who received her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College. She has excavated in Greece and in Israel, and taught ancient history and humanities at the university level for many years. She has always had a passion for books, and in childhood, she and her cousin (also a writer today) used to write stories for fun.