Teach the Torches to Burn (Daughter of Montague)

Rosie, the twenty-year-old daughter of Romeo and Juliet, is about to marry Escalus the younger, prince of Verona, and the guest list is a disaster in waiting. The royal Leonardis, the upstart Montagues and the snooty Capulets all arrive armed, and at least one of them knows their way around poison. Then elderly Princess Ursula, with Yorick's skull and a gift for theatre, stages a public séance and foretells a fertile marriage, a long-lost treasure and foul, most unnatural murder.

Rosie, a cynic and sleuth with a sharp tongue, must find the poisoner before her wedding bells toll for a funeral instead. Christina Dodd's Daughter of Montague mystery plays Shakespeare's Verona for wit and mischief, with romance threaded through the danger. A treat for anyone who likes their cosy crime clever, their heroines wry and their Bard with a wink.