What Time Devours

ISBN: 978-0425226230

“A.J. Hartley takes the reader on an intelligent, intense, suspenseful ride in What Time Devours. A crime tale about Shakespeare, trust and redemption that keeps you turning the pages.”

— James O. Born, author of Burn Zone

“A fabulous thriller by an amazingly talented author. Exciting and meaningful, it surprised and transported me.”

—David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Brotherhood of the Rose

Shakespearean scholar A.J. Hartley blends strong writing with historical expertise in his new novel of suspense, WHAT TIME DEVOURS (A Berkley Mass Market Paperback Original; January 6, 2009; $7.99). In WHAT TIME DEVOURS Hartley brings back Thomas Knight, the popular protagonist from his previous novel On the Fifth Day (Berkley 2007).

When Thomas Knight discovers the bloody, lifeless body of a woman press up against his kitchen window one more morning he knows he’s about to get caught up in something terrible. When he learns that this same woman had recently claimed to be in possession of a long-lost — and now priceless — Shakespearean play he becomes embroiled in a centuries-old mystery. Could Shakespeare’s fabled Love’s Labour’s Won actually exist?

The police assigned to investigate the murder aren’t interested in old plays, especially one many scholars don’t believe ever existed. But Thomas believes that the play must be real and is definitely linked to this mysterious woman’s death—and possibly other secrets as well.