Scroll of Saqqara

Lisa Arsenault is a high-school English teacher who is involved in
several ministry campaigns to increase literacy.

This is a fascinating tale of ancient Egypt, set in the period of Ramses
II. A wealth of descriptive detail and factual information clearly evoke
the setting and time.

The story commences when a prince opens a sealed tomb on the Saqqara
plain and removes a papyrus scroll sewn to the hand of one of the dead.
His attempts to decipher the scroll set off a chain of events that keep
the reader enthralled to the last page. The stage is cunningly set
during a seemingly harmless incident involving the scroll.

The novel’s initial tone is innocent enough, but the author expertly
builds up the tension and increasingly draws in the supernatural, until
the reader is spiraling down a well of suspense to the magic-saturated
ending.

I could not put this book down. I recommend it highly to anyone
interested in Egypt at the time of the pharaohs, and to anyone who
enjoys suspense spiced with the supernatural.