Lily Bard · Book 3

Shakespeare's Christmas

by Charlaine Harris

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9780440234999
Type
novel

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Cover of Shakespeare's Christmas

About this book

The third novel, Shakespeare's Christmas, was published in 1998 at 256 pages, continuing Harris's yearly output for the series' first three entries.

Its place in Lily Bard

Shakespeare's Christmas is book 3 in the Lily Bard series. It follows Shakespeare's Champion. It is followed by Shakespeare's Trollop. 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…

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