Shakespeare Fun

Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell, coming from Dutton in September, is a fun ride. The author bio holds Carrell to be a Ph.D. from Harvard, and a former Smithsonian magazine writer who has directed Shakespeare plays. This adds up to a fine background for someone spinning a yarn about lost plays, the true identity of the Bard, and a chase that spans one Globe Theater (London) to another (Utah, of all places...). If Dutton can market this correctly (think Rule of Four rather than Interpretation of Murder; the latter was a better book [sorry, Ian!] but never went anywhere, unlike the former, which made at least one of the authors enough money to have no more reason to put off marrying his girlfriend), it will rule the bestseller lists through the holiday season at the very least.