Search - Shakespeare's Secret

Fascinating!

A fun mystery tale about a young girl, Hero, whose family moves into a house that local legend says has a missing diamond hidden in it somewhere. Hero decides to try to find the diamond for her neighbor, old Mrs. Roth, who befriends her and tells her the story of the missing diamond which seems to be part of a necklace that she was given by the former owner of the house, whose wife was a descendant of Edward de Vere, thought by many scholars to be the true author of Shakespeare's plays. They discover that the necklace may have been Anne Boleyn's, and woven into the story is the genuine history and scholarly speculation about the relationship between Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Edward de Vere. A fun story but one that I would have enjoyed more in my youth as I was a little disappointed at the trailing plot thread that went nowhere and seemed contrived for the sake of drama and the obvious twist in the end that I could see coming a mile away.