Death comes as the end
Ratings5
Average rating3.7
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Ratings5
Average rating3.7
It is 2000 BC in Egypt and Imhotep the Ka-Priest brings home his beautiful young concubine Nofret. But not all the members of his family welcome her. When she is found dead Imhotep's daughter, Renisenb, suspects it might not have been an accident. The death unleashes the greed and hate that have been building up within the family and the horrific events that follow tear it apart.This is Christie's only book with a historical setting. The idea of setting a murder mystery novel in Egypt was suggested to her by Stephen Glanville a noted Egyptologist and close personal friend and colleague of Christie's husband Max Mallowan.
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Murder and decit in ancient Egypt...written by the greatest mystery teller of all time.
I'm currently reading my Agatha Christies in order and not reading the back beforehand. So it was a bit of a shock to slide into my bath with this and find myself in Egypt 2000 years BC!
It was a good little murder mystery, once again I failed to guess the killer, and a nice piece of historical writing too. I just wasn't invested in the characters, I didn't really care about any of them.
Not a book I would have chosen to read had I known the premise and not one I'll return to in a hurry.
