Lily Bard · Book 2
Shakespeare's Champion
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9780440224211
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shakespeare's Champion followed in 1997 at 272 pages, the longest book in the series, continuing Lily Bard's slow, unsentimental process of letting people back in as her house-cleaning work keeps giving her access to the whole town's secrets and bodies.
Its place in Lily Bard
Shakespeare's Champion is book 2 in the Lily Bard series. It follows Shakespeare's Landlord. It is followed by Shakespeare's Christmas. See the full Lily Bard reading order.
Lily Bard is a survivor of a brutal assault who has rebuilt her life in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, working as a house cleaner and karate instructor and keeping almost everyone at arm's length — a much harder-edged protagonist than the cozier amateur sleuths Charlaine Harris is best known for. Cleaning houses gives Lily access to the whole town's secrets and, inevitably, its bodies, but the series' real subject is Lily herself: her PTSD, her guardedness, her slow and unsentimental process of learning…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440224211