Scroll of Saqqara was slow at first. I was about 80 pages in and was thinking of putting it down, but then the storyline changed and it got to the point where I could barely put it down. Pauline Gedge never fails to deliver a great Egyptian tale.

This one is about an arrogant son of Ramses the Great called Khaemwaset. A great magician, physician, and tomb raider, Khaemwaset and his son Hori come across an ancient tomb on the Plain of Saqqara. Inside, they find a scroll that has been sewn to the hand of a corpse. Khaemwaset boldly cuts the scroll from the body and takes it home. That night, he reads some of the scroll out loud before realizing that the scroll contains a powerful spell that the god Thoth had laid as a trap. The spell is Khaemwaset's punishment for his desecration of sacred places, and it puts Khaemwaset and his entire family in extreme danger.