Interred With Their Bones
Non-series
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Plume (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-452-28989-0 (0452289890)
ISBN-13: 978-0-452-28989-5 (9780452289895)
Publication Date: August 2008
List Price: $15.00
Synopsis (from
the publisher): On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet,
Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric
mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have
made a groundbreaking discovery. But before she can reveal it to Kate,
the Globe burns to the ground and Roz is found dead ... murdered
precisely in the manner of Hamlet’s father. Inside the box Kate
finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a
deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt.
From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a
killer and decipher a tantalizing string of clues, hidden in the words
of Shakespeare, that may unlock literary history’s greatest
secret.
Review: Jennifer
Lee Carrell's debut mystery, Interred
With Their Bones, is the gripping story of a pursuit against
time and life itself to find the 1st Folio, a collection of the first
works of William Shakespeare.
On a midsummer's day in 2004, Katherine J. Stanley, director of the
theatrical group at the Globe Theatre, a replica of Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre which burned to the ground in June, 1613) opens with
their performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Before the
performance, Rosalind Howard, Kate’s former professor, comes to
the theatre with a gift wrapped box for Kate. She tells Kate she has
made a ground-breaking discovery but she needs Kate’s help.
Before the evening is over the Globe Theatre is set afire, and Roz is
found dead in the ruins -- killed in the same manner as Hamlet’s
father. Is this an improbable coincidence or was it planned? With
nothing to go on but a brooch and a cryptic note found in the box Roz
had given her, Kate and Roz’s nephew Ben set out to try to find
Roz’s discovery. The journey takes Kate and Ben from Europe to
America and back again, followed all the way by a sinister shadow of a
man who is also hunting for the secret. While Kate and Ben continue
their investigation more people are murdered in a Shakespearian style.
Although she has resolved to continue, as she gets closer to the truth
she begins to wonder if the solution is worth the lives lost, which now
possibly include Ben’s and her own.
The premise upon which Interred With
Their Bones is based is itself a literary mystery. It has been
suggested that William Shakespeare's plays (his tragedies, comedies,
tragicomedies, sonnets, and more) were not written by him at all.
Stratfordian scholars strongly believe Shakespeare wrote the work
attributed to him; the Shakespearean Oxford Society argues otherwise,
that his name was merely ascribed to the work of contemporary
playwrights, most notably Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Would
these organizations resort to murder to promote (or protect) their
cause? Who truly wrote the words, "The evil that men do lives after
them, The good is oft Interred With
Their Bones"?
Interred With Their Bones
is a remarkable novel that throughout maintains the drama, ambiguity,
and suspense surrounding the authenticity of Shakespeare's literary
canon. Though some passages are a bit confusing, the pace of the
narrative will keep the pages turning.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Interred With Their Bones and to Penguin Group for providing a trade paperback edition of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2008 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Interred With Their Bones
Plume (Trade Paperback), August 2008
ISBN-10: 0-452-28989-0 (0452289890)
ISBN-13: 978-0-452-28989-5 (9780452289895)
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Location(s) referenced: Statford, Oxford, England, Boston,
Massachusetts.
