Witness of Bones

Leonard Tourney. Fawcett Books, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-38319-8

Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan sleuthing far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga. (Sept.)

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