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A long-lost play…
A killer who copies Shakespeare…
And a race to find literary gold
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“Glorious Fun” in More Than 25 Languages
In a Nutshell
On the eve of the Globe Theatre’s production of Hamlet, director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious golden box and claims to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it, the Globe burns to the ground and Roz is murdered in theatrical style. Inside the box Kate finds the first piece to 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, aiming to unlock literary history’s greatest secret.
Reviews
A “brainy romp” — “Carrell really kicks up her heels in…a weighty piece of scholarship packed into a feverishly paced action adventure…. The author’s wild storytelling style…clicks with the dashing Indiana Jones spirit of the adventure.”
—The New York Times
“High class fun”
—Newsweek
“Glorious fun”
—The Independent (London)
“Utterly ingenious”
—The Guardian (London)
“Endlessly fascinating…. A lively intellectual romp”
—The Washington Post
“Plot twists worthy of The Da Vinci Code.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Readers and theater buffs who want smart excitement … join me in hoping that Carrell will give us what Will never will: sequels.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An exciting, entertaining and surprisingly educational read just itching to make its big screen debut”
—Associated Press
“A gripping page-turner… Perfect.”
—Daily Express (London)
“A hide-and-seek chase of murder and mayhem”
—The Times (London)
“It’s The Da Vinci Code on steroids, and would be banned if it were an athlete…. An intelligent, thought-provoking, highly readable and extremely fast-paced whodunnit spanning four centuries.”
—Daily Sport (London)
“Literary sensation of the year”
—The Bookseller (UK)
A “notable debut”
—USA Today
One of “10 fiction titles you won’t want to miss” this fall.
—The Houston Chronicle
“Plenty of globe-trotting action along with the literary clues.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Grand and harrowing”
—Tucson Weekly
“Highly entertaining… Sure to spark rousing discussion in book circles”
—Bookreporter.com
“Kept me up long into the night, eager to take that next turn in the plot”
—Book Buzz
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Jennifer on the Reduced Shakespeare Co. Podcast: The Shakespeare Secret
A Tale of Two Titles
Interred With Their Bones is the book’s title in the U.S.; in the UK and much of the rest of the world, it’s The Shakespeare Secret. Same book, different titles. Here’s why.
Reader's Guide
Up Next
Follow Kate into her next book: Haunt Me Still (The Shakespeare Curse)
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The evil that men do lives on,
The good is oft interred with their bones.