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1) Martyr
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John Shakespeare series volume 1
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John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England's most famous sea warrior.
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Colophon Letterford's life changed overnight when she uncovered Shakespeare's lost manuscripts. Now the authenticity of those manuscripts is in question... and the centuries-old family publishing business is in danger. In this exciting mystery, thirteen-year-old Colophon travels from Oxford's lofty Tower of the Five Orders to the dank depths of London's sewers in her pursuit of truth and honor. But the stakes are high. Budding cryptologists, Shakespeare...
4) Traitor
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The Elizabethan Bond is back . . .
Under the threat of a second Spanish Armada, John Shakespeare is sent to Lancashire to guard over England's secret weapon and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr. Dee.
But nothing is so simple when the country is a hotbed of secret loyalties and civil unrest. During his mission, Shakespeare stumbles upon Catholic priests in hiding, a mysterious Bohemian seductress, and-of course-murder.
Between facing off with...
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Would you help, would you run, or would you just watch?
When a young woman is brutally assaulted by two men on the subway, her cries for help fall on the deaf ears of onlookers too terrified to get involved, her misery ended with the crushing stomp of a steel-toed boot. A cell phone video of her vicious murder, callously released on the Internet, its popularity a testament to today's depraved society, serves as a trigger, pulled a year later, for...
6) The Heretics
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An exorcism … a siege … a stealthy killer … What else could go wrong?
John Shakespeare-intrepid private detective and brother to a rising young playwright in Elizabethan London-is approached by a condemned Jesuit priest with an unusual proposition: the Father is haunted by the memory of Thomasyn Jade, a teenage girl subjected to brutal exorcism rites a decade past. He wants Shakespeare to track her down and offer reparations for her treatment.
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7) The Redeemer
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Sometimes Life Gives Murder a Second Chance
It was the case that destroyed Detective Justin Shakespeare's career, beginning a downward spiral of self-loathing and self-destruction lasting half a decade. And today things are only going to get worse. The Widow Rapist is free on a technicality, and it is up to Detective Shakespeare and his partner Amber Trace to find the evidence, five years cold, to put him back in prison before he strikes again.
But...
8) Tick Tock
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Crime Scene tech Frank Brata digs deep and finds the courage to ask his colleague, Sarah, out for coffee after work. Their good time turns into a nightmare when Frank wakes up the next morning covered in blood, with no recollection of what happened, and Sarah's body floating in the tub. Determined not to go to prison for a crime he's horrified he may have committed, he scrubs the crime scene clean, and, tormented by text messages from the real killer,...
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"Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax is enlisted by theater company supporter Paula Van Dusen to investigate the murder of a family friend who happens to be a business rival of her daughter's fianc�e and throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog, and long buried family secrets"--
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Luisa Villareal has worked her entire life to find a place in academia. Her love of Shakespeare has driven her, since middle school, to higher and higher levels of scholarship. Now, in April 2014, she finally has her chance to make it at an Ivy League institution.
After convincing a renowned association and her university, Assistant Professor Villareal prepares to host the association's annual Shakespeare symposium. Moreover, 2014 marked the 450th...
12) Ophelia
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Finalist - 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards
Accidental death or perfectly plotted murder?
Tal Neilson is slowly losing his mind. He's convinced his dead father Geri has been murdered, but no one believes him. Geri's voice in his head is screaming for revenge.
Is the voice real or a product of Tal's addiction?
Can Tal ignore his widowed mother's attraction to Geri's business partner?
At stake: Tal's legacy, a billion-dollar drug empire...