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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Nofret, Imhotep, Renisenb entitled Death Comes as the End?
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conversations.value: Death Comes as the End: The quiet lives of an Egyptian family are disturbed when the father, Imhotep, returns from the North with his new concubine, Nofret, who begins to sow discontent amongst them.\nOnce the deaths begin, fears are aroused of a curse upon the house, but is the killer closer to home.\nThe novel is primarily written from the perspective of Renisenb, a young widow reacquainting herself with her family when her father Imhotep, a successful but pompous and short-sighted mortuary priest, brings a new "wife", Nofret, into their lives.\nNofret soon disrupts and antagonises Imhotep\'s sons – Yahmose, Sobek and Ipy – as well as their wives.\nRenisenb realises the housekeeper Henet, while feigning devotion, is full of hatred.\nShe eventually confronts Henet, who in a fit of pique admits she hates Renisenb and hated Renisenb\'s long-deceased mother.\nAfter Imhotep is called away, Satipy and Kait, the elder sons\' wives, try to bully Nofret with tricks, but the plan backfires when Nofret appeals to Imhotep and he threatens to disown his sons and their families upon his return.\nSuddenly everyone has a motive to kill Nofret and when she is found dead at the foot of a cliff, an accident seems unlikely, although no one will acknowledge anything else.\nNext, Satipy falls to her death in terror from the same cliff while walking with Yahmose.\nWas it Nofret\'s vengeful spirit that she was looking at over Yahmose\'s shoulder moments before her death.\nThe rumours only gather pace when Yahmose and Sobek drink poisoned wine.\nSobek dies, but Yahmose lingers on, having drunk less of the wine.\nA slave boy who says he saw Nofret\'s ghost poisoning the wine dies of poison shortly afterwards.\nThe handsome scribe Kameni has fallen in love with Renisenb, and eventually asks her to marry him.\nUnsure whether she loves him or her father\'s advisor Hori, whom she has known since she was a child, she leaves the choice effectively in her father\'s hands and becomes engaged to Kameni.\nShe realises, however, that his relationship with Nofret was closer than she had supposed, and that jealousy may have influenced Nofret\'s bitter hatred towards the family.\nHori and Esa, the elderly mother of Imhotep (a clever woman who although almost completely blind sees things clearer than most others - especially her son) begin to investigate the possibility of a human murderer.\nIpy, himself a likely suspect, starts to boast about his new, better position with his father; he plots to get rid of housekeeper Henet and tells her so.\nThe next morning, Ipy is found dead in the lake, drowned.\nThe field of suspects has been further narrowed.\nEsa attempts to flush out the murderer by dropping a hint about the death of Satipy, but is herself murdered by means of poisoned unguent, despite the presence of a food taster.\nHenet – who knows the murderer\'s identity and is momentarily powerful amid the chaos – is smothered by the linens used to wrap the ever-increasing number of victims.\nOn the same cliff path where Nofret and Satipy died, Renisenb, apparently summoned by Hori, hears footsteps behind her and turns to see Yahmose.\nShe then sees the look of murderous hatred in her brother\'s eyes that the other women saw before they were killed.\nOn the brink of her own death, she realises that Satipy was not looking in fear at anything beyond Yahmose — she was looking straight at him.\nHe had consumed a non-lethal dose of poison and pretended to recuperate while committing murders, both to make himself chief heir and to indulge his newfound love of violence.\nAs Renisenb realises some of this, Hori slays Yahmose with an arrow and saves her.\nHori explains all.\nRenisenb\'s final choice is whom to marry: Kameni, a lively husband not unlike her first, or Hori, an older and more enigmatic figure.\nShe makes her choice and falls into Hori\'s arms.