Tag: ancient history

Congratulations to Ava McKevitt!

Congratulations to Ava McKevitt, whose exciting historical adventure, Queen of Heaven, is out now!

Queen of Heaven is the first book in the HERA Greek Myths Retold Series.

Divine daughter. Jealous lover. Goddess of motherhood. Vengeful wife. Queen of Olympus.

Hera is woman incarnate. And woman scorned.

The powerful goddess has never agreed with the way her story has been told and now the time has come for Hera to set the record straight.

Ripped from the stomach of her father by her brother Zeus, Hera’s beginning was violent and unnatural.

And her life on Olympus was overshadowed by that of her brother-husband Zeus.

But who was the real Hera? What made the revered goddess of matrimony and motherhood?

And how did the daughter of Time become the queen of Heaven…?

Death of a Poet is Published Today

Congratulations to Keith Moray, whose gripping historical thriller, Death of a Poet, is published today!

Death of a Poet is the first book in the Ancient Egypt Mystery series.

275 BC, Alexandria

Hanufer of Crocodilopolis, newly appointed Overseer of the Police in Alexandria, is keen to prove himself worthy to both the citizens of the city and to the Pharaoh, Ptolemy Philadelphus.

When an altar is desecrated with a poem intended to insult the Pharaoh and his wife, Queen Arsinoe, Hanufer and his trusted sergeant Sabu are tasked with discovering who committed the outrage.

As the poet himself, Sotades the Obscene, was recently executed, Hanufer sets about finding out who else is familiar with his poetry.

Before long another poet is found murdered – a poem by Sotades left near the corpse as a macabre calling card.

With a growing number of murders to be investigated, Hanufer must make his mark and solve the mysteries.

But just where — and how high up — will the clues lead him?

Did Sotades really drown? Is there a serial killer on the loose in Alexandria?

And can Hanufer appease both the Pharoah and the gods?