Death Comes As The End

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An ingenious novel of jealousy, betrayal and serial killings in ancient Egypt It is Egypt in 2000 BC; where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a priest. Young, beautiful and venomous. most agree that it was fate – she deserved to die like a snake!

But at her father’s house on the banks of the Nile, the priest’s daughter Renisenb believes that the woman’s death was suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household – and watches helplessly as the family’s passions explode in murder…

‘Startlingly new… my admiration for her leaps even higher.’  –Observer

Agatha Christie

Death Comes As The End