A Mysterious Review of Shakespeare No More by Tony Hays. A Jacobean Mystery.
Review summary: The life and suspicious death of William Shakespeare make for a fine backstory to this police procedural-style investigation. There is a strong sense of time and place and the endless fascination as to whether or not Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all the work credited to him adds to the intrigue. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Shakespeare No More
Tony Hays
A Jacobean Mystery
Perseverance Press (September 2015)
Publisher synopsis: It's April 1616, and William Shakespeare is mortally ill, felled, they say, by a fever. But when he calls his estranged friend Constable Simon Saddler to his bedside, Shakespeare tells him that his illness is no fever, but poison. When the poet dies just days later, Saddler feels compelled to investigate his old friend's death to discover, not just who murdered him, but how a man who was once as close as a brother was moved to cuckold Simon and split their friendship apart. The trail is long, but before it's over, Simon finds himself wrapped up in two murders, and a conspiracy that reaches to the king's own doorstep.
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