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“None of us knew what was at stake. And that’s the thing about archaeology - you never know what you’ll find when you start digging into an ancient pyramid. Maybe some burials, mummies even. But surely not a five hundred year-old secret worth killing for.

Had I known at the onset that seven weeks later most of my friends would be dead, I would have left Peru in a heartbeat. But of course I didn’t know that.

I didn’t know that a demonically-possessed Spanish Grand Inquisitor would haunt the crap out of us, or that a pair of undead conquistador knights would help us find the secret to putting down walking mummies.

And surely, I wouldn’t have just sat around had I known that something was watching from inside that pyramid, some malevolent force that could animate the dead.

But it’s all true, as you’ll come to realize.”

The Mummies of Blogspace9 is a taut, high-stakes thriller about a team of archaeologists who inadvertently dig up more than they bargained for. Demons of antiquity are not easily amused, nor are those who’ve sold their souls to protect them. The Mummies of Blogspace9 will fill your heart with terror and with glee (but not at the same time, because that would be very strange, and also pointless).

The Mummies of Blogspace9: Horror has a new URL

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About the Author

As an archaeologist and a mystery writer, William Doonan is always digging up dirt. Born in New York, William grew up in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. He received his B.A. in anthropology from Brown University and then studied archaeology at Tulane University, investigating Maya and Central American prehistory. After years of excavations in Honduras and Costa Rica, he received his Ph.D. in 1996. As a tenured professor of anthropology and archaeology, William has spent the last fourteen years helping students explore the structures and functions of past and contemporary cultures. As an active field archaeologist, he spent summers on Peru's north coast excavating pyramids, mummies, and strange little mud walls. William is also a veteran cruise ship lecturer, traveling the world on some of the universe's largest floating cities, and speaking on topics as diverse as the Trojan War, Piracy in the Adriatic, and the Peopling of the Americas. Spending long stretches of time at sea resulted in a keen interest in cruise ship culture - specifically the dynamics of the two separate but intertwined worlds on board; the passengers on one hand, and the staff and crew on the other. Moving between these two worlds, William began paying attention to cruise ship security, and to the elaborate but often invisible ways in which this unique society manages social control, and responds to crime. This prolonged attention produced the central protagonist of William's cruise ship mystery series - Henry Grave. Henry Grave is an investigator for the Association of Cruising Vessel Operators. A World War II P.O.W., Henry is as cunning as he is charming, and at 84 years of age, he fits right in with his fellow passengers. Henry Grave first set sail in 2009 with Grave Passage. He returned to sea in 2011 with Mediterranean Grave. In 2012, Grave Indulgence brought Henry to the scene of a very different sort of crime. 12 million people take a cruise each year. Most have fun. Some die. Henry Grave investigates. In 2012, Doonan's archaeological mystery American Caliphate was published. Based on Doonan's excavations in Peru, American Caliphate imagines a centuries-old secret hidden under the sand, and a Middle Eastern government intent on making sure that secret stays hidden. Doonan reimagined Peruvian archaeology in his new supernatural thriller The Mummies of Blogspace9. If you'd like to learn more than you bargained for about demons of antiquity, this is the book for you!