About This Book
Reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code, The Hamlet Investigation hearkens to historical fascinations. Shakespeare’s tragedy. Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Schoole of Night,†with its Tobacco & Boies. Coded messages. Murder and blasphemy. Flash forward to Helsingor, California, 1998. Dr. Roland Waterson, an idealist who can't help himself, covets tenure at Hamlet College. With his son gone, and his marriage and reputation on the line, a quiet pause would suit him fine. Then Karen Dent, his former student, is found dead. Rumors link her to Utah Station, a truck stop where coeds seek sexual adventure. Roland leaps to her defense and is soon up to his essays in puritanical flak. His mentor Archie Speare and Bailey Jane Miles, a crime reporter, throw him lifelines. Invoking the detective motif in Hamlet, the threesome expose funeral home fraud, communion administered in a pipe and deans cavorting in Bishop Skylark’s holy retreat. Stirring the pot is one thing. What to do when the cauldron overflows is quite another. Thus challenged, Roland engages powerful and well-connected enemies on terrain not of his own choosing. Any misstep may be the end of all--his reputation, his career, his very life.
