Leonard Tourney

Reason Read: Shakespeare's World
This is a story and mystery about William Shakespeare. It was ok, the globe theater, the Strand, and his home. The mistress of Shakespeare asks him to meet and then there is an attempt to kill him. The mystery is to discover who wants to harm Shakespeare. Shakespeare sees himself in his Sonnet.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks. Within his bending sickle's compass come;. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (Sonnet 116)

In 1599 William Shakspeare gives to Queen Elizabeth his account of the realife Sir John Falstaff. A gentleman he met when he was just 19 years old and travelling from Strafford to London to make a name for himself.
Didn't really find the story that compelling or the characters. Possible 2.5 stars.

Nine years after first meeting Dr Dee, Shakespeare is willed the Book of Enoch in Dee's will. But when he goes to collect the book his troubles begin and his adventures.
An enjoyable story.

In Elizabethan Chelmsford a band of actors have come to perform at Saltmarsh Hall. Then one of the players is found dead.
Now it is Constable Matthew Stock's duty to find the killer.
Probably interested enough to read the next in the series;
A NetGalley book