mothertalk book tour: interred with their bones

If you’ve been looking for a thrilling, thoughtful page-turner, head to the bookstore or—better yet!—click the link I’m about to put up: Interred With Their Bones should get you through the week. Once I started reading, I could not put this book down until I had read every last word. (Okay, yes, I took short breaks to feed the kids. I can’t make a cashew butter and honey sandwich while also holding a hardback book.) (And yes, this all took place before last week’s miserable illness.)

Kate, an expert in occult Shakespeare, is on the trail of a lost Shakespearean manuscript—and a murderer, who stages killings to match those in Shakespeare’s plays. (That was a test to see how many times I could use “Shakespeare” in one sentence. I probably could have tossed in a few more if I’d really worked at it. Shakespeare Shakespeare.)

I’ll admit I was hesitant about this one because I thought it would be too creepy. With a title like Interred With Their Bones—and being, after all, a murder mystery—I was afraid I wouldn’t sleep for a week after reading it. But the title comes from a Shakespearean quote (“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”), and the plot is much more about adventure and mystery than gore.

So—who can Kate trust? Will she stay ahead of the police, who may suspect she’s involved in the murders? Who really wrote Shakespeare’s manuscripts? And does it matter whether it was the man history claims? Who are the poet, the dark lady, and the golden-haired youth of Shakespeare’s sonnets? And will Kate be able to pull off a disguise consisting of a blond wig and stilettos? Important questions all. Or at least ones that kept me reading “just one more chapter” until two o’clock in the morning.

For more on Interred With Their Bones, including backstory from the author, visit MotherTalk.