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Title | : | Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1) |
Author | : | Charlaine Harris |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 216 pages |
Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Berkley (first published 1996) |
Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Cozy Mystery. Crime |

Charlaine Harris
Paperback | Pages: 216 pages Rating: 3.76 | 24852 Users | 1334 Reviews
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Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily Bard came to the small town of Shakespeare to escape her dark and violent past. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. So when she spots a dead body being dumped in the town green, she's inclined to stay well away. But she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and despite her best efforts, she's dragged into the murder case. Lily doesn't care who did it, but when the police and local community start pointing fingers in her direction, she realizes that proving her innocence will depend on finding the real killer in quiet, secretive Shakespeare.Shakespeare's Landlord is the first book in Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard mysterious series.
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Original Title: | Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, #1) |
ISBN: | 0425206866 (ISBN13: 9780425206867) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Lily Bard #1 |
Characters: | Lily Bard, Marshall Sedaka, Pardon Alby, T.L. Yorks, Claude Friedrich |
Setting: | Arkansas(United States) Shakespeare, Arkansas(United States) |
Rating Based On Books Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1)
Ratings: 3.76 From 24852 Users | 1334 ReviewsJudge Based On Books Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1)
After complaing about the beginning. I read more and fell in love with the book. I enjoyed the way that Lily is a woman that lives on her own, stays in shape, is the cleaning lady but stays to herself. I think it's great that she's a slueth on her own but not so much to get into trouble. I love the way she can take care of herself. I feel that a woman character should be able to take care of herself.I enjoy how the story took place, right away with the murder and than the twists and turns. II really enjoyed this little mystery, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily Bard, the community cleaning lady, has chosen this small town on a whim because of her last name. It seems like the perfect sleepy little community in which to avoid her traumatic past and live a quiet life.Harris excels at portraying small town life, using ordinary people as characters. Lily is not someone that most people pay a lot of attention toas a cleaning lady, she tends to blend into the background. The only place
I read this book in order to count it for Arkansas in my US state challenge. I enjoyed it and give it 4 out of 5 stars. The author uses a familiar formula: A private citizen, in this case, Lily Bard, cleaning lady, is suspected of murder and decides to solve the murder herself. The subtitle is "Introducing Amateur Sleuth Lily Bard." Lily Bard runs a 1 woman cleaning/errand service in the small town of Magnolia, Arkansas. She witnesses something suspicious, and discovers a dead body. She doesn't

I'm relieved I enjoyed this one so much. Besides the Sookie novels, I haven't ventured far into other Charlaine Harris worlds. Lily Bard is an unusual character who is scarred both mentally and physically. She's an unusual main in a mystery but that only adds to the storylines. The small town element always intrigues, and with this one set in her own apartment building with all the suspects living next door, it makes it more interesting. In cozies and such, usually people randomly stumble on
Very enjoyable. I had read a couple of Lily Bard books years ago and enjoyed them. This I had not yet read. Lily is tough and intelligent and a loner. She keeps to herself most of the time and she has secrets. When one of her neighbours is murdered she gets drawn into the mystery against her will. She starts to get to know her neighbours and perhaps even makes a friend or two, even though she doesn't want to.
Shakespeare's Landlord is a cozy mystery set in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, with Lily Bard doing almost as much detecting as she did cleaning.This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews
When I read Dead Until Dark and fell madly in-love I began scouring the internet for other books by Charlaine Harris. I found a couple of mystery series she'd written. This is the first book in her Lily Bard series. In some ways, these books are amongst my favorites. They're darker than her Sookie Stackhouse books but explore her themes to perfection: the outsider trying to make her way through the hypocrisy of self-satisfied conventional society, the flawed heroes and understandable villains,
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