title: Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (English and Egyptian Edition)
author:  Normandi Ellis 
description: "Anyone reading this work cannot help but be moved by it. It comes as close to an appreciation of the themes of the soul's journey portrayed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as any modern interpretation has, and with a poetry unmatched anywhere in the literature thus far".
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  The Osiris Ritual
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  George Mann
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Macmillan (2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Tags:
  
  
  Egyptologists, Private Investigators, Serial Murderers - England, Historical
  Fiction, London (England), Private Investigators - England, Government
  Investigators, Women Private Investigators, Fiction, Science Fiction,
  Immortalism, Mystery Fiction, London (England) - History - 19th Century,
  Historical, Occult Fiction, Women Private Investigators - England, Serial
  Murderers, Egyptologists - England, Spy Stories, Government Investigators -
  England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### From Publishers Weekly
  
  A steampunk mystery that includes Ottoman automatons, ancient Egyptian
  artifacts, a malevolent stage magician, and a quest for immortality should
  prove entertaining, but unfortunately, The Osiris Ritual falls short of its
  promise. Set in the usual Victorian London, the story feels clichéd and
  mechanical. The main character is a third-rate Sherlock Holme