Guarding Shakespeare

Available in paperback, Kindle, Audible Audio, and iTunes Editions. "Quintin Peterson’s writing is one of those wonderful surprises – startlingly literary yet still gripping genre fiction. " --Austin S. Camacho, author of the bestselling Hannibal Jones Mystery Series The Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest repository of Shakespeareana and English Renaissance books, manuscripts, and objets d’art. Nobody alive knows the library better than Special Police Officer Lt. Norman Blalock; he’s been guarding it for 25 years. That’s why he is the perfect candidate to pull off an inside job and heist from the library’s underground bank vault a priceless artifact that can rock the foundation of English Literature... “In the time-honored tradition of noir fiction, Quintin Peterson doesn’t shy away from exploring the lengths to which people will go to feed their greed. In his world, things are seldom what they seem. They’re generally much, much worse – but a heck of a lot of fun to read.” --Karen Lyon, The Hill Rag