Nefertiti, Nick Drake

 

Nefertiti:  The book of the dead by Nick Drake is the first book in the Rahotep Detective Trilogy

Started: March 10, 2024
Completed: April 3, 2024
Recommendation: Mildly Recommended
Recommended By:  Nobody, I stumbled across this book in a book store and it looked interesting.  If memory serves, it was Vertigo books which was going out of business.

Words for which I sought help:

faience -- glazed ceramic ware, in particular decorated tin-glazed earthenware of the type which includes delftware and maiolica.

Review:

Akhenaten (and more likely Nefertiti) would likely have been simply on a list of pharaohs if not for Tutankhamun's tomb.  It is highly unlikely that Nefertiti would have been more than a name without the wonderful bust that showed her as a beauty instead of the odd elongated statues that were associated with her reign.  Honestly, there is not a lot to know about them.  This novel does a decent job of bringing them to life.  Otherwise, it is not really a great book and the mystery isn't all that compelling.  I will not read another of the series.