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Lily Bard is a woman so damaged by her past that she is paralyzed by her own emotions. She doesn’t do chatty and friendly. She has a hard earned sense of pride in her own strength and ability to survive. After years of being locked down emotionally she is falling in love. This series are all murder mysteries with a very little sex thrown in. I love them. I bought them when they first came out. I liked them then, but I was young and I didn’t understand how Lily could be the way she was. As if she were a tiny bit autistic due to trauma. I do understand many years later and I like her even more. I just wish the kindle version had a discount. I have all the books, but are they in the attic? Or storage?


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Shakespeare Christmas Lily Bard Mysteries Book 3 Charlaine Harris 9780440234999 Books Reviews

I've only read the first three Lily Bard novels, and the third, Shakespeare's Christmas, is by far the best. It's probably unfair to compare this series to the Sookie Stackhouse books, but reading that series was the whole reason I sought more Charlaine Harris. The Shakespeare stories are entertaining, just not as fun as the Sookie books. I liked the fact that this story had less, yet more believable, violence and a better mystery than the first two. I recommend the Shakespear series if you are interested in reading all of Charlaine Harris's works, but would probably recommend you read Harris's Harper Connelly series before Shakespeare if you've already read the Sookie Stackhouse series and want more of Harris's excellently crafted and imaginative writing.
Charlaine Harris has done it once more and written a truly amazing story. Lily Bard is a complex and amazing character the story line in this book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time reading it.
If your looking for a new series of mystery I highly recommend the Lily Bard Mysteries!
This is the third Lily Bard mystery. Lily, the victim of a brutal attack years ago, has changed her life to combat the helplessness she felt back then. She works out and takes karate, and has moved to another town in order to escape pity and media attention.

In this third book she returns home for her sister's wedding. I've read all five of the Lily Bard books now, and would say this is one of the best of a good lot. It was quite interesting to see Lily back with her family, to see how people treated her and reacted to her, and how she, in turn, changed when dealing with her old friends and family. As usual, Harris's writing is wonderful -- well-paced, interesting, with great dialogue and characters.

the sub-plot deals with a child kidnapping and several murders, with several suspects of course. I found the mystery less compelling than Lily's personal life, but enjoyed both. I thoroughly enjoyed this return to home for Lily, and highly recommend this series. (Best if read in order.)
Since Lily Bard left her home town of Bartley Arkansas after experiencing a life altering and tragic event, she has rarely come back. But her sister is about to be married and Lily is the maid of honor, so sisterly duty takes her there.

Lily makes Christmas plans with her private Detective boyfriend, Jack, after the wedding and back at her home in Shakespeare. But when Jack is assigned an 8 year old unsolved kidnapping case, things suddenly get crazy in Bartley.

I paid an obscene amount of money for this out of print book as I am totally addicted to this series and simply could not wait for the December 2008 re-release. Was it worth that huge pile of clams? You bet; I'd pay it all over again in a heartbeat.

While Lily finally starts to heal with her family and friends and the life that was before she was hurt, we get to watch her relationship with Jack progress. The mystery is a heartbreaking one that had me in an internal battle with myself about turning to the end ahead of time to see whodunit.

For such a small number of pages, Ms. Harris utilizes them to their fullest and provides a well rounded book with maximum entertainment. I am ready for the next one!

Cherise Everhard, March 2008-03-08

Shakespeare's Landlord
Shakespeare's Champion (The Second Lily Bard Mystery)
I have liked the character of Lily Bard from my first introduction to her in "Shakespeare's Landlord". I read with interest both that volume as well as the second book, "Shakespeare's Champion". Honestly, I found them to be just so-so. I thought the charcters were interesting, and Lily's background trauma and personality the meat and bones of each of those novels, much more so than than the actual mysteries within. I was pleasantly suprised with "Shakespeare's Christmas". The mystery of a murdered physician and his nurse and how it related to a missing baby case eight years old was very interesting. We know almost immediately that there are three children who may be this missing baby, living a new life. The process of figuring out which child was stolen, and thereby which parents did what, was more exciting in my opinion, than the first two installments. I also enjoyed seeing a softer side of Lily, as she faces her first trip back home since she left years ago, after suffering a gang rape and mutilations to nearly every part of her body. It was good to see Lily fight to do the right thing in her interactions with her family, and understandable when she needed to leave, get away, and run from all the pitying looks and whispered murmurs. As for the negatives of this book, they are few. I know that "Shakespeare's" always begins the titles but here the book takes place mostly outside of Shakespeare and so I didn't think the title fit as well as the previous ones...And my biggest complaint is that I felt the book ended too suddenly. I thought the mystery wrapped up quite nicely, but I felt we should have seen a final goodbye scene with her parents and sister. Something to show that either everything was fragile, but going to be alright between them, or that nothing had really changed in their complex relationships. If you have been a fan of Charlaine Harris in general or the Lily series in particular I do recommend this one as the best yet.
Lily Bard is a woman so damaged by her past that she is paralyzed by her own emotions. She doesn’t do chatty and friendly. She has a hard earned sense of pride in her own strength and ability to survive. After years of being locked down emotionally she is falling in love. This series are all murder mysteries with a very little sex thrown in. I love them. I bought them when they first came out. I liked them then, but I was young and I didn’t understand how Lily could be the way she was. As if she were a tiny bit autistic due to trauma. I do understand many years later and I like her even more. I just wish the kindle version had a discount. I have all the books, but are they in the attic? Or storage?