Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Interred With Their Bones is a mystery thriller about a missing (for real) Shakespearean play, named Cardenio and a search for a missing letter that could prove that William Shakespeare was the real author of all things Shakespeare.
Kate Stanley, a Shakespearean scholar now stage director is staging Hamlet at the Globe in London.  She receives a visit from her former mentor, (they parted acrimoniously three years earlier) and Roz gives her a box with a secret and then Roz dies.  Then the Globe Theater catches on fire--whew it only has minor damage, but it was burned on Tuesday, the June 29th just like the original Globe burned down on Tuesday, the 29th of June in 1613. The secret in the box sets Kate on a whirlwind tour of England, the American Southwest, and Spain in search of the missing play.

What I enjoyed even more than the adventure in this mystery (and there is plenty of it) were the explanations of the many theories of who the real author of arguably the world's greatest plays was.  Jennifer Lee Carrell,  the author placed these theories into the story smoothly, they gave clues to the next place the heroine had to get to--in a way like a literary scavenger hunt, each clue building upon the previous one.  Ms Carrell, has a PhD in English and American literature and she has written an article for the Smithsonian Magazine, "How the Bard Won the West."   She even wove her article into the story, it was fascinating!

At first glance you might think, ohhh, another da Vinci Code wannabe.  Not so!  Interred With Their Bones is a fast-paced literary treasure hunt, with facts and fiction woven together so that everything seems plausible.  Check this out for yourself and let me know who you think wrote Hamlet.