In this dark-toned police procedural, British detectives Lloyd and Hill make their tenth appearance. William Monk and his wife Hester journey from London to the Civil War battlefield of Manassas. A psychological thriller about a black serial killer who passes for white. Here is their progress report. The Welsh prince, Davydd ab Owain, blames a daring young rebel who is also his own nephew.
Murder soon follows, a particularly shocking crime for it occurs in a church.
For years I've been fascinated with the Shakespearean authorship controversy, whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays. As my new novel begins, two Harvard graduate students find what appears to be smoking-gun evidence, a letter from Shakespeare that says someone else wrote the plays. Still reeling from the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, Los Angeles is in the midst of rebuilding, as is Detective Charlotte Justice of the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division. She is then assigned a case from another homicide division. The victim, pioneering black film director Maynard Duncan, appears to have committed suicide after a long battle with cancer.