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FEATURED AUTHOR: N. L. HOLMES

It’s my pleasure to welcome N.L. Holmes again as the featured author in The Coffee Pot Book Club Blog Tour being held between March 30th –  April 10th, 2026. N.L. Holmes is the author of the Historical Cozy Mystery, A Taste of Evil (The Hani’s Daughter Mysteries), published by WayBack Press on October 30, 2025 (247 pages). 

Below are highlights of A Taste of Evil, the author bio of N.L. Holmes, and a guest post about the historical background of the novel set in ancient Egypt. 

Tour Schedule Page: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2026/02/blog-tour-a-taste-of-evil-by-n-l-holmes.html

HIGHLIGHTS: A TASTE OF EVIL

A Taste of Evil
(The Hani’s Daughter Mysteries)
by N.L. Holmes

Blurb:

In Tutankhamen’s Egypt, the vizier’s head cook dies suspiciously, and it looks like murder to Neferet and Bener-ib. Only, who would want to kill a cook, a man admired by all?

Perhaps he has professional rivals or a jealous wife. But she is the longtime cook of Neferet’s family, a dear retainer above reproach. Was her husband the good man he seemed to be, or did he have the shady past our two sleuths begin to suspect?

They’d better find out soon before the waters of foreign conspiracy rise around Neferet and her diplomat father. If they can’t find the killer, it could mean war with Egypt’s enemy, Kheta — and someone else could die. Maybe one of our nosy sleuths…  

Any Triggers: Incest is passingly mentioned

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AUTHOR BIO: N. L. HOLMES

N.L. Holmes is the pen name of a professional archaeologist. She has excavated in Greece and in Israel and taught ancient history and humanities at the university level for many years. She has always had a passion for books, and in childhood, she and her cousin used to write stories for fun.

These days she lives in France with her husband, two cats, geese, and chickens, where she gardens, weaves, dances, and plays the violin.

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Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/N-L-Holmes/e/B0858H3K7S

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20117057.N_L_Holmes

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/n-l-holmes

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GUEST POST: HISTORICAL BACKDROP TO A TASTE OF EVIL

Unlike its predecessor series, The Lord Hani Mysteries, the Hani’s Daughter series involves relatively little of the great movements of history. Neferet is a private citizen, and although she used to work at the palace, she no longer does, confining her medical service to the working-class people of her dispensary’s neighborhood. But in A Taste of Evil, there does turn out to be a foreign connection that references the real historical situation in the formerly-great kingdom of Mitanni (or, as the Egyptians would say, Naharin). Here’s a little background.

Naharin/Mitanni was one of the great world powers, along with Egypt and the Hittite Empire, from the 16^th century BCE to the middle of the 14^th century BCE, when our story takes place. In the previous generation, the country had been divvied up by the Hittites on one side and the rising Assyrian power on the other. The rump state left was ruled by a king named Tushratta. He was challenged by his cousin, who was supported by the Hittites, but Tushratta’s kingdom had long enjoyed a close relationship with Egypt—first his sister then his daughter had married King Amenhotep III and been passed down to Amenhhotep’s son Akhenaten. The ill-fated younger princess was featured in The Lord Hani Mysteries. 

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