A mummy from the Brooklyn Museum goes for a CAT scan to see what’s inside the sarcophagus. Diagnosis…this one is not coming out alive.  

This Roman Era mummy in the British Museum is part of the plot of The Stolen Chalice.  

The curators at the Brooklyn Museum CAT scanned a mummy to find out what was inside the sarcophagus.  I went along for the ride – so to speak.  Research for THE STOLEN CHALICE.  

There has been a increase in looting at historic archaeological sites since the revolution.

I was standing next to photographer Will Croxton when he took this photo for The Stolen Chalice last year in Egypt.  

I went to Egypt to research The Stolen Chalice. Just a few miles outside of Cairo the old world and the modern world exist side by side.  

In Egypt I found this tomb carving of ancient dancers.  So beautiful

Sometimes location drives the plot in a book.  When I saw La Fenice in Venice, I though to myself.  ‘What a romantic place for a scene’ and it stuck in my head for several years.  Now it is in The Stolen Chalice.