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jennariaINTERRED WITH THEIR BONES, by Jennifer Lee Carrell.
Cover copy: A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found...a killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities...a desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive...
On the eve of the Globe's production of HAMLET, Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes of the past break through to the present: The Globe burns, and a body is found inside - murdered in the strange manner of Hamlet's father. Opening the box, Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle that sets her off on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt, racing from England to Spain to America.
An expert in occult Shakespeare, Kate knows better than anyone the many secrets, half-truths, codes, and curses surrounding his life and work. On the trail of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, she soon realizes that the prize at the end promises to unlock literary history's greatest secret.
But Kate is not alone in this hunt, and the buried truth threatens to come at the ultimate cost...
Gender of detective (?) - female
This isn't a murder mystery, this is a thriller - basically THE DA VINCI CODE except with Shakespeare instead of the New Testament. And like THE DA VINCI CODE, it's not enough to chase an abstract: you have to bring in identity.
Officially, Kate is chasing a lost play of Shakespeare's. Unofficially, it rapidly turns into an issue of Who Shakespeare Really Is - to which the answer, of course, is not "the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon". In fact, it's the most complicated possible theory on the subject. (Why...yeah, yeah, I know, I asked this just a few posts ago, and the answer hasn't changed. It's still about the best/most dramatic possible story.) Really unofficially, it turns out that Kate's murdered mentor was related to one of the key players, which is either a very nice tying off of a loose end or that little bit too much that pushes things over the top, depending on your relative tolerance by the time you reach that point of the book.
It's well written - certainly better written than Dan Brown. But it still elicits a certain amount of 'seriously? seriously?' at the conspiracy theories it perforce avows with a straight face.
Cover copy: A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found...a killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities...a desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive...
On the eve of the Globe's production of HAMLET, Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes of the past break through to the present: The Globe burns, and a body is found inside - murdered in the strange manner of Hamlet's father. Opening the box, Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle that sets her off on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt, racing from England to Spain to America.
An expert in occult Shakespeare, Kate knows better than anyone the many secrets, half-truths, codes, and curses surrounding his life and work. On the trail of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, she soon realizes that the prize at the end promises to unlock literary history's greatest secret.
But Kate is not alone in this hunt, and the buried truth threatens to come at the ultimate cost...
Gender of detective (?) - female
This isn't a murder mystery, this is a thriller - basically THE DA VINCI CODE except with Shakespeare instead of the New Testament. And like THE DA VINCI CODE, it's not enough to chase an abstract: you have to bring in identity.
Officially, Kate is chasing a lost play of Shakespeare's. Unofficially, it rapidly turns into an issue of Who Shakespeare Really Is - to which the answer, of course, is not "the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon". In fact, it's the most complicated possible theory on the subject. (Why...yeah, yeah, I know, I asked this just a few posts ago, and the answer hasn't changed. It's still about the best/most dramatic possible story.) Really unofficially, it turns out that Kate's murdered mentor was related to one of the key players, which is either a very nice tying off of a loose end or that little bit too much that pushes things over the top, depending on your relative tolerance by the time you reach that point of the book.
It's well written - certainly better written than Dan Brown. But it still elicits a certain amount of 'seriously? seriously?' at the conspiracy theories it perforce avows with a straight face.