Betty Winkelman better known by the pen name

Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

 Lauren Haney, is an American mystery novelist.

Biography

Starting as a government typist, Haney later worked as a technical editor in the aerospace and international construction industries. In the late 1980's she became interested in writing fiction. After her first attempt at novel writing was unsuccessful in finding a publisher, she drew on her interest in and knowledge of ancient Egypt for a setting. Her eight published mystery novels are set during the joint reign of Queen Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...

 and Thutmose III

Thutmose III

Thutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his stepmother, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh...

, of the 18th Dynasty . They take place in frontier settlements along the southern Nile, where Lieutenant Bak and his troop of Medjay

Medjay

The Medjay –from mDA, represents the name Ancient Egyptians gave to a region in northern Sudan–where an ancient people of Nubia inhabited...

 police struggle to keep order and capture offenders against the Lady Maat

Maat

Maat is a naval rank of the German navy equivalent to the army rank of Unteroffizier. A Maat is considered the equivalent of a junior Petty Officer in the navies of many other nations....

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Haney's novels have been published in German, English and French. She has lived in Missouri and New Mexico and now makes her home in Northern California. She travels frequently to Egypt, and has contributed articles and book reviews to KMT

Kmt (journal)

Kmt is a magazine on ancient Egypt published quarterly by Kmt communications. It takes its name from the ancient Egyptian word for their country, kemet, meaning "black land" in reference to the fertile black soil of the Nile valley. The first issue was published in Spring 1990...

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Lieutenant Bak series (Mystery of Ancient Egypt)

• The Right Hand of Amon (1997)
• A Face Turned Backward (1999)
• A Vile Justice (1999)
• A Curse of Silence (2000)
• A Place of Darkness (2001)
• A Cruel Deceit (2002)
• Flesh of the God (2003)
• A Path of Shadows (2003)

Nonfiction

• Ancient Egypt 101; A Quick Refresher Course, Amelia Peabody's Egypt: a compendium (2003)
• Buhen: Blueprints of an Egyptian Fortress, KMT 6:2, Summer 1995
• Spacious & Comfortable Dwellings: Homes of the Nobles at Akhetaten, KMT 10:2, Summer 1999
• Akh Isut Nebhepetre, The Mortuary Complex at Deir el Bahari of Nebhepetre Montuhotep, KMT 12:3, Fall 2001

Book Reviews

• Book Report: Stuart Tyson Smith, Askut in Nubia: The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in the Second Millennium B.C., KMT 7:2, Summer 1996
• Book Shelf: Peter Lacovara, The New Kingdom Royal City (B.Winkelman), KMT 9:2, Summer 1998
• Book Shelf: Dietrich Wildung, ed., Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile (Betty Winkelman), KMT 9:3, Fall 1998
• Book Shelf: Florence Dunn Friedman, ed., Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience (B. Winkelman), KMT 10:1, Spring 1999
• Book Shelf: Joyce Tyldesley, Judgement of the Pharaoh: Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt (Betty Winkelman), KMT 12:1, Spring 2001

Sources

• Lynda S. Robinson and Lauren Haney: Detection in the Land of Mysteries, in The detective as historian: history and art in historical crime fiction, Volume 1, edited by Ray Broadus Browne, Lawrence A. Kreiser
• The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, Mike Ashley, Elizabeth Peters