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The City of Refuge Review***This book is an updated version of the original edition, which is no longer in production.***
I am happy to see that this book has been reissued in an updated form (see the author's note on the rewrite). The reviews of the original book (which was good) did not get passed over to this edition, so I am updating the review I did on the original book.
This book starts out with quite a hook. The opening chapter of this book takes place in Akhnaton's abandoned city of Amarna. A man has chosen death as a way to save his son from ruin, and he dies watching the sun rise through the surrounding hills, happy in the thought that his son will be safe. The thread of the story picks up 25 years later when the temple of Ptah mounts an expedition to the ruined capitol city - now rumored to be haunted - to inspect the quarries still there. Threads of greed, of past murder, of impending vengeance all converge in this well-written tale. Over all of the action, in the present, and remembered from the past, looms the memory of the enigmatic man who was Akhnaton.
The story is full of believable, enjoyable characters, and while this is an historical novel/mystery, the author is firmly grounded in human nature: some of the exchanges are very funny - like when the main character and a friend get themselves locked in a fortified garden in the middle of a rainstorm (yes, they have them in Egypt).
The author deals with some historical characters, but she is careful to note that this story is a work of fiction. It contains one of my very favorite characters and has quite a twist to the plot. No, I'm not saying what. You'll love it.
One reviewer (of the earlier edition) said:
"The City of Refuge is an interesting story of betrayal, retribution and of a people (the Egyptians) trying to recover from the disastrous reign of a ruler who tried to turn their traditions and their religions inside out. I found the book to be well paced and well crafted and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys true historical fiction and mystery (and not what is called Historical Fiction now)."
I agree.The City of Refuge OverviewIt was once the glory of Akhnaten's reign, called 'The Horizonof the Aten'.Now the imperial city of Amarna lies wrecked, abandoned and accursed, dreaming in the darkness on the edge of the Nile.Police Commander Khonsu has never believed in curses, but he can't deny his own foreboding when he learns that the city's stone quarries are to be reopened at Pharaoh's command by a delegation from the great temple of Ptah at Memphis, headed by LordNebamun, its second-ranking priest, a man without a past.As commander of the provincial police force assigned to guard the expedition, Khonsu accompanies the enigmatic Lord Nebamun to the ruined city, where he finds himself entangled in a drifting web of betrayal, murder and revenge that has its deepest roots in the shadows of the city's heresy-tainted past.

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