The Case of the Disappearing Dervish Now Available As An Audiobook!

 

Tantor Media just came out with Book Six of my Masked Man of Cairo series, narrated by the talented Curtis Michael Holland!

The Case of the Disappearing Dervish sees Sir Augustus, Moustafa, and Faisal head south to the Sudan. A blurb is below.

 

A religious scandal. A deadly homecoming.

Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has come far in life. Raised illiterate in a remote village in the Soudan, he set out at sixteen to better himself. His journey took him to the great archaeological sites of Africa, where he became a leading researcher versed in several ancient and modern languages. His life took an even stranger turn when he teamed up with Sir Augustus Wall and his street boy sidekick Faisal to solve murders.

Now there's been a murder in his village. A local religious mendicant has been found bludgeoned to death and Moustafa's cousin, who is in the same religious order, has vanished and is assumed to be the killer. Moustafa must return to his roots to clear his cousin's name and reunite with the family he left behind.

But can Moustafa really go home again after having changed so much, and does that home even want him? 

 

Available wherever audiobooks can be purchased or rented. 

The Case of the Asphyxiated Alexandrian is now available as an audiobook!

 

Book 5 of my Masked Man of Cairo series is now out as an audio book, and book 6 comes out next month! These are all narrated by the talented Curtis Michael Holland, who has won several awards for his work and is also fluent in Arabic! You can find the audiobooks on Amazon, Audible, and anywhere else audiobooks are sold.

April Writing Update

Spring has sprung, and I'm busy writing!

I just finished the first draft of The Case of the Poisonous Papyrus, book 8 of the Masked Man of Cairo series. It's now in edits and will soon go to the beta readers. I'm also working on a new series called Bunker, murder mysteries set in a network of billionaires' bunkers after World War Three. Locked room mysteries on another level! Those will start coming out this summer.

Vinci Books has now made new covers for my Moroccan Mystery and Toxic World series. You can see a couple here.

My next project is to finish book four of The Berlin Murders. It's time to get back to Katherine's adventures, but I have to warn you, as 1933 draws closer, it's getting a bit darker.

(How couldn't it?)

Plenty more to come, and you can follow it all by checking this blog every month or signing up to my newsletter. That bags you two free ebooks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Latest Historical Mystery is Out!

 

My latest historical mystery, Cordelia Catches A Count, is out now. It's the second book in Cordelia's Cairo Case Files, following the adventures of an English nurse in Cairo right after World War One. Fans who like amateur female sleuths will like this one. A blurb is below.

 

A drowned scholar. A count with secrets. A treasure worth killing for.
When a Hungarian Egyptologist disappears from his hospital bed in the middle of the night, Nurse Cordelia Russell is certain something is amiss. Feverish and weak only hours before, he could not possibly have slipped out unnoticed—yet by dawn his body is found in the Nile.
The police, including Cordelia’s own brother, are satisfied with a verdict of tragic accident. Cordelia is not. She spots clues that point to something far more sinister.
Cordelia follows a trail that leads from hospital wards to grand hotels, from ancient tombs to glittering cafés—and into the orbit of the enigmatic Count János von Hohenstat, a charming aristocrat whose interest in the dead man may not be entirely innocent.
As secrets surface and loyalties blur, Cordelia must decide whom she can trust before the killer turns his attention on her.
Join Cordelia in the thrilling second installment of her Cairo mysteries!

 

 

You can get it here! 

 

 

 

My Latest Audiobook is Out!

 

Tantor Media has just released Book Three of my Masked Man of Cairo series as an audiobook. The Case of the Golden Greeks has our heroes journey to Bahariya Oasis, where I went myself to research the book. I love the narrator, Curtis Michael Holland. He speaks fluent Arabic and has an amazing voice.

Book Four comes out March 10! 

My Travel Year: A Look Back And A Look Forward

The year 2025 was a good one for my wanderlust. I started the year in Egypt, where I spent two months in Cairo and the Fayoum, researching and writing The Case of the Cackling Crocodile. Then I went to Canada for two months to see family.

Summer saw my wife and I in Albano, near Rome, where my wife was teaching a bunch of astronomy graduate students at the Vatican Summer School. I wrote and explored the area, walking the Appian Way and even having an audience with the Pope! He gave a short speech to us on the importance of exploring the universe and then we each got to shake his hand and have a quick word. A Jesuit friend was shaking like he had just met a rock star.

After that it was the usual summer of research at Oxford University, followed by a couple of short trips to Tangier.

Whew! I makes me jetlagged just writing about it. So what's coming up in 2026? I'll be back in Tangier this month, and in the spring will return to Canada. After that, things get a bit hazy. We're juggling several different options right now and we're not sure how things are going to turn out. Whatever happens, another trip to Egypt and Morocco are in the cards!

My Writing Year: A Look Back and a Look Forward

It's been a busy year for me when it comes to writing and publishing.

It may not seem like it to my readers, because I only released two books in 2026: The Case of the Cackling Crocodile (Masked Man of Cairo Book 7) and A Summertime Murder in Berlin (Berlin Murders Book 3), yet behind the scenes I've been working on much more.

To wit, two new science fiction series! Tech Scavengers is a lighthearted space opera, and Bunker is a grim post-apocalyptic thriller. Both will see the light in 2026. I'm also hard at work on more of the historical mysteries I'm best known for, including another Cordelia book, book 8 of the Masked Man of Cairo, and more!

In other news, Tantor Media is releasing my Masked Man of Cairo books as audiobooks. The Case of the Purloined Pyramid is already available wherever audiobooks are sold, and book two comes out in January.

In other news, I've sold the rights to my Toxic World and Moroccan Mysteries series to Vinci Books, a UK publisher that plans to redo the covers, get them in bookshops, and also as audiobooks and foreign language translations. If these two older series do well, I'll be adding to both of them.

You can see the progress of all these projects on the wordcount sidebar to the right as well as via my newsletter. 

Have a great new year and thanks for joining me on this journey!