Interred with Their Bones

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrated by: Kathleen McNenny

“A feverishly paced action adventure” (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard’s most bloody murders

Jennifer Lee Carrell’s highly acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant, breathlessly paced literary adventure. The action begins on the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet when Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe is burned to the ground and Roz is found dead…murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlet’s father.

Inside the box Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, highstakes treasure hunt. From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and solve a tantalizing string of clues hidden in the words of Shakespeare, which may unlock one of history’s greatest secrets.©2007 Jennifer Lee Carrell; (P)2007 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

Critic reviews

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A feverishly paced action adventure.”—The New York Times

“[A] notable debut literary thriller.”—USA Today

“High-class fun.”—Newsweek

“A lively intellectual romp.”—The Washington Post

great scavenger hunt read!

I was hooked from the beginning! A great listen and highly entertaining. I loved the sporadic music that was in the background as well.

Just what you would expect

I like these "what if" kind of books, and this one was no exception. You get exactly what you would expect -- a relatively quick paced, globe-trotting type of adventure. But, with that you have to excuse the characters' superhuman leaps of logic that just about always turn out to be true. Sometimes these can be silly, but I would rather accept it than listen for extra hours of wrong turns and dead-ends. Overall, a fun book to listen to, the narrator was pretty good. I would get the sequel.

A lot of fun

... and boy! does the author know her way around Harvard! A great read for a winter's day.

A good what if historical fiction

Liked the plot though it went a little long sometimes. Like when they would recap everything every few chapters. Loved the whole what if this is what really happened with “lost” works of Shakespeare.

scholarly but uneven

There are parts to this story that are exciting in the best tradition of an "on the run" thriller. There are too many other parts where the author seems to argue an academic thesis through the medium of a thriller. The story drags at these points which far exceed the rapid-paced action sequences.
The heroine is an American, so it makes sense to have an American narrator. However, so many of the characters are British (and the text describes their regional accents), which throws into sharp relief the inability of the narrator to create credible males accents from Britain.
Trimmed to half the length and with a co-narrator to do the many British male voices, this might have been a top-class listen