THE HORUS KILLINGS

The second installment in the series medieval veteran Doherty began with The Mask of Ra (1999) brings back Amerotke,

now Chief Judge of Egypt, to investigate a series of murders—beginning with the poisoning of the Temple of Horus' chief librarian—that rock the house of Menes, the pharaoh who's united Egypt, it seems, only to watch it slip away one citizen at a

time.