Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead (Vol. 1)

On the eve of a grand festival, Queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reformed Ancient Egypt's polytheistic religion and instituted the worship of the Sun God, inexplicably disappears. Worried about her and even more about the damage her disappearance could do to his image, the pharaoh tasks Rai Rahotep, the youngest chief detective of the Theban police force, with solving the case. He has only one week to unravel the mystery, investigating the country's high nobility, and the price he will pay if he fails could be very high: his own life and that of his family. Nefertiti is the first book in a series set in Ancient Egypt starring detective Rai Rahotep.