Something Rotten, by Alan Gratz, is available now. It's a retelling of Hamlet, set in the town of Denmark, Tennessee at the family owned Elsinore Paper. A clever environmental mystery with general appeal is made even more fun by all the references to Hamlet. Alan Gratz calls it "Pulp Shakespeare" or "Hardboiled Hamlet." It made me want to watch the movie Strange Brew.
Saving Juliet, by Suzanne Selfors, won't be out until February. But it's worth the wait. Mimi is tired of acting but willing to go through with one more run of Romeo and Juliet to pacify her mother, a former actress and now the owner of a theater. After a bout of stage fright, Mimi opens the backdoor of the theater for some air and finds herself stepping straight into Shakespeare's story.
