ISBN  978-1-4303-2599-4

    225 pages   

€13.25

Erika Borsos
(TOP 500 Reviewer)
Gulf Coast of Fl, USA
(amazon.com)

Sharing in the mystery of Immortality.
In Inquest on Imhotep, Derek Adie Flower creates an eerie feeling of mystery and intrigue right from the beginning. It turns into an irresistible reading experience straight through to the end. The author weaves fascinating facts from Egyptian history into the plot. He describes the climate, the landscape and the Nile superbly. The reader learns of Egyptian burial customs and political intrigues of the times. However, most fascinating is how the author weaves two secret opposing societies into the plot. The author carefully weaves romance into the story along with another murder or two, and some complex political intrigues within the secret societies. The novel is fast-paced and exciting. It is difficult to put down once started. There is a richness and depth which keeps the reader wanting more. Also, subtle twists in the plot provide a spicy flavor. The author's superior knowledge of Egyptology is evident throughout. The characters in the novel are well fleshed out and realistic. The author provides harrowing escapes from the dark forces with a very satisfying resolution, but the evil forces are not totally eliminated. Instead, they undergo a transition and morph into a different version of themselves.
This is an intense and fun reading experience.
Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

Excellent reading.
A murder, an ancient tomb, secret cults, and romance make Derek Adie Flower's Inquest on Imhotep an excellent read. A well-written plot and well-developed characters will capture the reader's interest and draw them into the story. Flower's has an understated style. Fans will want to savor this book.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with ancient Egypt and the mystery surrounding it. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but if I believed in reincarnation, I’d say I’ve lived there in another life. Author Derek Adie Flower brings Egypt to brilliant life in his book Inquest on Imhotep: Beyond the White Walls, and I was captivated from beginning to end.

 Archeologist Christopher Grant discovers what he thinks is the tomb of Imhotep, the world’s first great architect, on an estate at Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis—the first great capital of Pharaonic Egypt. But Grant dies a suspicious death one night while taking a bath. Jim Collings, a journalist, also turns up dead—which means that someone doesn’t want Imhotep’s tomb discovered.

 An Englishman who has no real interest in archeology—or his estate in Memphis—travels out to Egypt after Grant’s death to take care of business. There, he gets caught up in a web of murder and unexplained deaths and a secret society known as Sons of Set. He meets Meri de Rougemont, and they quickly become close—and then fall in love. Their happiness is short-lived, though, when an Italian named Gaetano Semberlini pressures the Englishman to sell the estate. When he refuses, Semberlini uses foul means to get what he wants.

 A surprising amount of good writing has come out of Lulu Press, and Inquest on Imhotep is one of the best. It’s very well written, with a tantalizing plot. Not only do you get an intriguing murder mystery, but there’s also a bit of romance, mixed with archeology, secret societies, and a 5,000-year-old tomb on the brink of being unearthed.

Inquest on Imhotep is a good, solid read with an intriguing setting. If you like the lure of Egypt as much as I do, then you’ll enjoy this novel as much as I did.

His second novel, ‘Inquest on Imhotep Beyond the White Walls’, is a thriller which combines the history of the High Priest Imhotep, architect of the world’s first major stone building, the step pyramid of Saqqara, with a fast paced modern day story of international intrigue. The story is located around the writer’s former home outside Cairo near ancient Memphis. Seasoned with Eqyptian cosmology, archaeology and a dash of occult, this is a fun way to enjoy a read and be introduced to an important aspect of Derek Flower as an Egyptologist.

This is a decidedly curious book in its mixture of fact and fiction. Or is it, the "fact" - in fact - cleverly disguised fiction. Is there such a society as the "sons of Set"? It doesn't sound inherently unlikely. Its goings on, indeed, seem quite mild compared with the rituals of the Freemasons.

The core of the novel is the search for the tomb of Imhotep, the architect of the world's first major stone building, the step-pyramid of Saqqara, built for the pharaoh Djoser. Rather less well-known than the pyramids at Gizeh, the vast enclosure is still one of the wonders of the world. Imhotep himself was subsequently deified as the Egyptian god of medicine, roughly the equivalent of the Greek Aesculapius, and plays a leading role in a cosmic encounter between good and evil.

Derek Flower has himself lived many years in Egypt and his knowledge of the background is impressive. It still comes as a surprise that a non-Egyptian - the British protagonist in the novel - owns so vast an estate adjoining Saqqara that it is necessary to travel around it by car. Imhotep's tomb is to found somewhere on the estate. The search for it has already lead to two violent deaths and the protagonist, a British novelist, becomes embroiled in the murky world of Egyptian bureaucracy an international business. The novel is, essentially, a thriller with clues laid at various points and it would therefore be unfair to give away the plot. But those with a taste for Egyptian cosmology and archaeology, seasoned with a touch of the occult, will enjoy an additional bonus.