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Kate Stanley Series

This thrilling series immerses readers in a world where history, mystery, and literary enigmas converge. The protagonist, an independent and intelligent woman, finds herself at the heart of a dangerous quest for lost texts and hidden truths. Each installment is a meticulously crafted adventure, blending intellectual puzzles with action and suspense. Follow her journey across centuries and continents as she unravels age-old secrets that could rewrite literary history.

Haunt Me Still
Sepultado con sus huesos
Shakespeare Curse
The Shakespeare Secret
The Shakespeare Curse

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  1. 1

    The Shakespeare Secret

    • 468 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    3.5(1542)Add rating

    A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard’s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . . On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. But before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe burns 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, 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, that may unlock literary history’s greatest secret. At once suspenseful and elegantly written, Interred with Their Bones is poised to become the next bestselling literary adventure in the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale and The Historian.

    The Shakespeare Secret
  2. 1

    Sepultado con sus huesos

    • 518 pages
    • 19 hours of reading

    A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard’s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . . On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. But before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe burns 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, 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, that may unlock literary history’s greatest secret. At once suspenseful and elegantly written, Interred with Their Bones is poised to become the next bestselling literary adventure in the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale and The Historian.

    Sepultado con sus huesos
  3. 2

    The Shakespeare Curse

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    3.2(47)Add rating

    In this gripping tale, director Kate Stanley faces skepticism for staging Macbeth's 400th anniversary. As eerie ritual objects appear and dark magic unfolds, the cast grows uneasy. When a boy linked to the original Lady Macbeth is kidnapped, Kate must unravel Shakespeare's occult clues to save him before opening night.

    The Shakespeare Curse
  4. 2

    Shakespeare Curse

    3.3(475)Add rating

    Shakespearean scholar Kate Stanley and Ben Pearl, her partner in crime-solving, find themselves in a desperate race to discover a lost version of "Macbeth, " said to contain rituals of witchcraft aimed at conjuring demonic forces to gain forbidden knowledge. However much Kate would like to dismiss such rituals as superstition, someone else appears willing to kill for them--and for the manuscript said to spell them out.

    Shakespeare Curse
  5. 2

    Haunt Me Still

    3.4(487)Add rating

    Click here for a Letter from Jennifer Lee Carrell. Kate Stanley returns in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Interred with Their Bones. Jennifer Lee Carrell's fiction debut, Interred with Their Bones, was greeted by both fantastic reviews and stellar sales. Already a bestseller in the U.K., Haunt Me Still marks the much-anticipated return of Kate Stanley, Shakespearean scholar and theater director. This time, Kate becomes embroiled in a murder surrounding Macbeth, the Bard's famously cursed play. As Kate and company begin rehearsals at the foot of Scotland's Dunsinnan Hill, she discovers a local woman dead in circumstances that suggest ancient pagan sacrifice. Marked as both suspect and future victim, Kate undertakes a desperate race to find a dangerous, alternate version of Macbeth-reputed to be Shakespeare's darkest secret.

    Haunt Me Still