


Books in series

The Judgement of the Mummy
1984

Le Crime de la Momie
2011

L'assassin de la Tour de Londres
1984

Les trois crimes de Noël
1996

Le Profil de l'assassin
2012

Meurtre sur invitation
2012

Crime Academy
2012

Mourir pour Léonard
2013

Qui a tué l'astrologue?
1993

Le Crime de Confucius
2013

Le secret des Mac Gordon
1985

L'assassin du Pôle Nord
2013

La Disparue de Cambridge
2014

La Vengeance d'Anubis
2014

L'assassinat de Don Juan
2014

Crime dans la vallée des Rois - Les enquêtes de l'Inspecteur Higgins #16
2015

Un assassin au Touquet
2015

Le crime du Sphinx
2015

Le tueur du Vendredi 13
2015

Les Enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins - Tome 20 Justice est faite
2016

Assassinio tra i druidi
1994

La maledizione di Tutankhamon. Le indagini dell'ispettore Higgins
2016

Le démon de Kensington
2017

Brexit Oblige
2017

Crime sur le lac Léman
2018

Comédien, assassin ?
2018

Les enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins - tome 29 - Sauvez la reine !
2018

Les enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins - Tome 39 Le monstre du Loch Ness
2021
Authors

Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly. Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, and read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne. This inspired him to write his first novel. He first visited Egypt when he was seventeen, went on to study Egyptology and archaeology at the Sorbonne, and is now one of the world's leading Egyptologists. By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987. As of 2004 he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology. He and his wife later founded the Ramses Institute, which is dedicated to creating a photographic description of Egypt for the preservation of endangered archaeological sites. Between 1995-1997, he published his best selling five book suite Ramsès, which is today published in over twenty-five countries. Each volume encompasses one aspect of Ramesses' known historical life, woven into a fictional tapestry of the ancient world for an epic tale of love, life and deceit. Jacq's series describes a vision of the life of the pharaoh: he has two vile power-hungry siblings, Shanaar, his decadent older brother, and Dolora, his corrupted older sister who married his teacher. In his marital life, he first has Isetnofret (Iset) as a mistress (second Great Wife), meets his true love Nefertari (first Great Wife) and after their death, gets married to Maetnefrure in his old age. Jacq gives Ramesses only three biological children: Kha'emweset, Meritamen (she being the only child of Nefertari, the two others being from Iset) and Merneptah. The other "children" are only young officials trained for government and who are nicknamed "sons of the pharaoh".
Pen name for Christian Jacq Series include Les Dossiers de Scotland Yard & Les Enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins