Historian Christian Shaw and her boyfriend, Assistant State's Attorney Joe Poli finally get a big date night...only to be called out when a body turns up on the Unity Town Green. Worse, the body belongs to Christian's current client, Sir Jeremy Hightower, the exceedingly pretentious director of the Summer Shakespeare production...and still worse, the murder weapon strongly suggests a hate crime. Christian will need all her expertise in old things - and the help of her "two dads," her rabbi, and her son Henry's photographic memory to solve this one. And she'll still have to brush off her Shakespeare and take the stage...but she may not make it to the curtain call!

Kathleen Marple Kalb describes herself as an Author/Anchor/Mom...not in that order. An award-winning weekend anchor at New York's 1010 WINS Radio, she writes short stories and novels including the Old Stuff and Ella Shane series, both from Level Best Books. Her stories, under her own name, and as Nikki Knight, have been in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, Mystery Magazine, and others, and nominated for Agatha, Derringer and Black Orchid Novella Awards. Active in writer's groups, she's served as Vice President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and Co-VP of the New York/Tri-State Sisters in Crime Chapter. She, her husband, and son live in a Connecticut house owned by their cat.