Abduction of a Slave, the fourth Eye of Isis novel (see below for the first three plus buy links, natch) publishes three weeks from today, and launches on the previous Saturday, January 25, at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. If you can’t attend in person you can watch on Facebook Live and YouTube, and you can preorder your signed hardcover first edition right here. They ship. Anywhere. Including Rome.
Okay, business done, let me ask you all: Are you seeing as much interest in Ancient Rome as I am? There are robust discussions on Reddit, Quora, et al, and then this morning I found this link in my 1440 newsletter, a whole topic on Ancient Rome. There are half a dozen subheads on the Republic and the Empire, but what I found most interesting was the bunch of links to articles elsewhere, like “How Ancient Rome used terror to build its empire” from the New Criterion and “Travel across Ancient Rome in this interactive map” from Stanford University (which I’m afraid to click through for fear I got all my Isis geography wrong). There’s “Bake bread like an ancient Roman” from the J. Paul Getty Trust where I’m going as soon as I finish this post, and if you scroll down far enough “Caesar and Cleopatra’s complicated affair” from The Conversation, which I’m also reluctant to click through in the expectation that they’ll trash Cleopatra as much as everyone else does. My Cleopatra shall not be trashed!
There just seems to be a lot about ancient Rome everywhere I look lately. Maybe it’s the ancient Roman auguries’ way of telling me the series is about to take off. Heh.
Death of an Eye introduces us to Tetisheri, lifelong friend of Cleopatra, the Lady of Two Lands and ruler of Egypt. The queen’s Eye is struck down in the streets of Alexandria and Cleopatra tasks her friend to find the murderer and bring them to justice.
Disappearance of a Scribe Tetisheri’s first official case as the new Eye of Isis. A scribe goes missing and leads to an investigation of corruption, bribery, and murder in Alexandria’s building trades.
Theft of an Idol The most popular actor in Alexandria is kidnapped and the queen asks Tetisheri find her and return her to her adoring fans. The journey takes Tetisheri and the Five Soldiers to Memphis, deep into the depravity and degradation of the eldest temple and even deeper into the heart of the tombs of the dead.
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