Author: Jennifer Lee Carrell
Narrator: Kathleen McNenny
Unabridged: 13 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 09/20/2007
“A feverishly paced action adventure” (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard’s most bloody murders
Jennifer Lee Carrell’s highly acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant, breathlessly paced literary adventure. The action begins on the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet when Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe is burned 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, highstakes treasure hunt. From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and solve a tantalizing string of clues hidden in the words of Shakespeare, which may unlock one of history’s greatest secrets.
If you don't like Shakespeare, don't even try to read this book. I read about 100 pages and I still have no idea of what they are talking about. I don't usually stop reading a book without finishing it, but this one I just couldn't read another page. Not good at all.