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Title: The Horus Killings by Paul Doherty ISBN: 0-7472-2241-X Publisher: Headline Pub. Date: 07 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable but....
Comment: The Horus Killings is a quick read. Unlike the work of Pauline Gedge, I found the work somewhat devoid of detailed setting and character study. If you are seeking to read a book involving Ancient Egypt and are quite focused on plot, you will enjoy this book. It's an enjoyable mystery, full of suspense. Do not look for more than this because I fear you will not find it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Adequate historical mystery
Comment: The Horus Killings is the second book in Doherty's sequence set in ancient Egypt circa 1480 B.C and having as its protagonist the Chief Judge of the time Amerotke.Like the novel immediately preceding it ,The Mask of Ra ,it is proclaimed on the cover to be a "novel of intrigue and murdrer in Ancient Egypt"and once again this is a fair description .There are murders-several in fact-but the author seems more interested in the court and dynastic politics than in the elements of detection .
Queen Hatusu rules Egypt and is having a hard time persuading the reactionary elements that a woman is entitled to rule the land .She summons the chief scholars and priests to a conference at Thebes to settle the matter and soon the place is awash in corpses-those known to be favourable to her cause are murdered and Amerotke aided by his dwarfish deformed servant Shufoy set out to trace the culprits and prevent more deaths .
The solution is perfectly "fair" and abides by the tenets of the classic whodunnit but tension is vitiated by two subplots -a case of possibly bigamous marriage ,and the deaths of two courtiers in a desert labyrinth both of whic are mere padding.
Well written and helped by some lively action scenes ,this still does not above the sturdily functional .Mr Doherty delivers competence rather than excellence in this series and it falls short of the standards he established with the period mysteries set in his naative England.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good but not for Ancient Egypt fans
Comment: The story is interesting - it's a detective story set in Ancient Egypt. The problem is that this kind of Ancient Egypt exists only in the author's imagination. I can hardly believe he is actually teaching history. There are mistakes even the average reader will spot if (s)he knows a little about Egypt. Some things are completely made up, Mr Doherty should have been reminded that he meant to write a novel in historical setting, not a fantasy.
This is the kind of book that you should read if you really have nothing else to do. If you're not into history, you may like it, but if you want to read something more authentic, try Pauline Gedge's Child of the Morning or The Hippopotamus Marsh.
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Title: The Mask of Ra by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 042518093X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Anubis Slayings by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 0425185818 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Path of Shadows by Lauren Haney ISBN: 0060521902 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Slayers of Seth : A Story of Intrigue and Murder Set in Ancient Egypt by P. C. Doherty ISBN: 0312282648 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 03 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Right Hand of Amon by Lauren Haney ISBN: 0380792664 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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