Rings of Anubis: A Folley & Mallory Adventure

by E. Catherine Tobler

A withered body abandoned to the desert wastes.
An ancient and mysterious god.
Four rings opening a portal to the unknown. As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt’s ancient mysteries and her mother’s inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from the present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous game of life, death, and uncanny powers!

Paperback

First published February 14, 2021

About the author

E. Catherine Tobler has written an awful lot of things. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Sturgeon Memorial Award, the Nebula Award, the Utopia Award. Her work on Shimmer Magazine was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Reviews

[Misty Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story itself was decent. Started off well but the pacing in the middle was very slow. Towards the end the story picked up steam. I think there was too much description that the story didn’t move at an even pace in my opinion. But there’s five more books in this series to read and they are all shorter in page length compared to this one. So I am willing to read the next ones to see what adventures awaits.