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Novel In Progress
“They will say it is a picture of a wedding, but in truth it is the portrait of a lie.”
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Haunt Me Still
“About as much fun as you can have with a book of magic and murder” —Bookreporter.com
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The Speckled Monster
“For those who take their medicine with an air of mayhem” —Kirkus Reviews
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"If you open it, you must follow where it leads…"
Interred With Their Bones
Kate Stanley Thrillers
“High-class fun”
—Newsweek
“A brainy romp”
—The New York Times
“Utterly ingenious”
—The Guardian
What I’m Working on Now
“They will say it is a picture of a wedding, but in truth it is the portrait of a lie.”
My new novel weaves a tale of love, betrayal and magic about the great Renaissance painter and spy Jan Van Eyck, told by the woman he loved and loved to paint: a woman with the face of an angel.
The Speckled Monster
“For those take their medicine with an air of mayhem.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Two unlikely heroes battle to save their children from smallpox: epidemic history that reads like a novel.
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I have loved Jan Van Eyck’s riddling Arnolfini Wedding Portrait — beautiful and disturbing in equal measure — since I first laid eyes on it…
Where are you, Jan Van Eyck? In the mirror’s reflection, you can see beyond the bride and groom, into an open doorway…
Occasional musings about stories, history, art, ideas, and journeys of the imagination: everything that makes me want to write…
“More like a mermaid than a queen”: The last time I saw John Singer Sargent’s great painting of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth…
“I don’t know.” Three simple words. One potent and seductive phrase that led to a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands as I researched Haunt Me Still…
Watch the trailer to Haunt Me Still
Whenever I’m in London, I go to see Ophelia floating in her brilliant green brook…
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: who is burning in Nicholas Hilliard’s miniature, and why?
“Glorious fun” in more than 25 languages: see a trailer featuring some of the book’s most beautiful covers from around the world…
Jennifer talks with Austin Tichenor about writing “Interred With Their Bones”…
“Same red hair and black Boleyn eyes”: in my mind, Kate looks like the young Queen Elizabeth I…
“She timed escape routes on two continents, planned arson, and scouted the perfect place to commit murder…”
Brilliantly eerie: the Spanish take on Interred With Their Bones (The Shakespeare Secret). A Kate Stanley thriller by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Burning Down the House: The German trailer for Interred With Their Bones (The Shakespeare Secret). A Kate Stanley thriller by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Sexy Slavic Shakespeare: Polish trailer for Interred With Their Bones (The Shakespeare Secret). A Kate Stanley thriller by Jennifer Lee Carrell
No portrait of Zabdiel Boylston survives, but this is how I like to imagine him…
Richardson’s 1726 portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes hides her smallpox scars but paints in slavery…
Smallpox was a hideous disease that made its victims unrecognizably monstrous, and many died in agony. The terror it fueled was intense…