P.C. Doherty

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The Anubis Slayings

The Treason of the Ghosts

The Horus Killings

The Field of Blood

The Demon Archer

Paperback - Headline (2001)

First British Edition Headline (2000)

The Anubis Slayings
Paul Doherty’s third novel set in Ancient Egypt, following The Mask Of Ra and The Horus Killings.
Hatusu, the remarkable young widow of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, has forced Egyptian society to acknowledge her as Pharaoh, and her success in battle is spreading Egypt’s glory well beyond its frontiers. In the Temple of Anubis, negotiations are taking place between Hatusu and the defeated King Tushratta of Mitanni for a peace treaty that will seal her greatest victory. But in one night, two hideous murders in the temple and the theft of the Glory of Anubis threaten the tentative truce. The respected judge Amerotke must find the truth or Egypt’s fragile peace could be destroyed.
‘A gripping, engaging, and highly enjoyable read’ Sherlock Holmes
‘The pace never flags and despite all this larger-than-life flamboyance Doherty’s Egypt has the ring of truth about it. Doherty has done his homework well and it shows.’ Historical Review
‘A historical world of terror that glitters with evil and greed, reeks with the odour of Hell and fascinates with the stare of the deadliest serpent’ Darlington Northern Echo

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The Treason of the Ghosts
See Review by Bernard Knight - Author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series set in Medieval Devon

One of the lanterns had been extinguished. Thorkle’s throat went dry. A cloaked figure had stepped out of the darkness, a cowled hood over his head. What was he hiding? The flailing stick? Thorkle drew his knife.
`What is it? Who are you?’
`The winnower, separating the wheat from the chaff.’
Thorkle was sure he recognised the muffled voice.
`What is it you want?’ Thorkle edged closer.
`Justice!’

Five years ago in the village of Melford, a local lord was executed for a spate of vicious murders. But now other young women have been found violated and garrotted, and the dead lord’s son, Maurice, insists that a miscarriage of justice has taken place. Meanwhile, someone who believes in Sir Roger Chapeleys’ innocence is exacting his own kind of justice as, one by one, the leaders of the jury which sent the lord to the gibbet are brutally murdered.
Maurice Chapeleys’ appeal to the royal council is answered when Edward of England sends his chief clerk to Melford to discover the truth. Hugh Corbett, with his faithful servants Ranulf and Chanson, faces the difficult task of unveiling the secrets of a distrustful community tormented by murder. Seeking connections between the deaths, Corbett realises that for many years a serial killer has terrorised the villagers. But Corbett believes there could now be two killers, one preying on corrupt jurors, the other on vulnerable women, and anyone else who might stumble across his true identity...

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First British Edition Headline (1999)

The Horus Killings
Paul Doherty’s second novel set in Ancient Egypt
After the death of her husband Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, Hatusu is determined that all Egypt should accept her as its ruler. But her ambition is threatened by a spate of killings in the Divine Temple of Horus that the priests are swift to interpret as a sign of celestial disapproval of a female pharaoh. The royal city becomes paralysed as confusion and rumour abound. Only one man, Amerotke, a respected judge, can be trusted to find the truth among the intrigue surrounding the deaths...
'The best of its kind... Doherty dazzles with his knowledge and intimate feel for ancient Egypt' Time Out

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The Field of Blood
Brother Athelstan - priest of St Erconwald's in medieval Southwark - is praying for a quiet week when he is interrupted by the cry of murder, Hurrying outside, he is confronted by the horrific sight of three mutilated corpses lying on the church step. Law dictates that if a killer is not found the entire parish will be punished.
Before he has even had time to start his investigation, Brother Athelstan is called to the Assizes on urgent business in his capacity as secretarius to Sir John Cranston, coroner of the City of London. Here, in a bizarre twist of fate, one of Athelstan's parishioners, a respectable widow, stands accused of committing multiple murder and burying her victims in the 'field of blood'.
Certain of the widow's innocence, yet convinced that the two incidents must be related, Athelstan embarks on his most perplexing case yet. The consequences, should it not be solved, are unthinkable…
'[Paul Doherty] writes with such skill that you really can picture and almost (but thankfully not quite) smell 14th-century London. Absolutely superb.' CADS

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The Demon Archer
The Death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St Matthew 1303 is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies, his midnight trysts with a coven of witches and his boundless self-interest, he was a man of few friends. So when Hugh Corbett is asked to bring his murderer to justice it is not a matter of finding a suspect but of choosing between them.
Immediate suspicion falls on Lord Henry's chief verderer, Robert Verlian. His daughrer had been the focus of Lord Henry's roving eye in the weeks before his death and he was not a man to take no for an answer. But the culprit could just as easily be Sir William, the dead man's younger brother. It is no secret that Sir William covets the Fitzalan estate - but would he kill to inherit it? The possibilities are endless, but the truth is more terrible than anyone could have imagined...