Lily Bard · Book 5
Shakespeare's Counselor
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780575105348
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shakespeare's Counselor, the fifth and final Lily Bard novel, appeared in 2001 at 256 pages, matching the length of the series' third book and closing out Charlaine Harris's five-book run before she moved on to the Harper Connelly and Sookie Stackhouse series that would make her famous.
Its place in Lily Bard
Shakespeare's Counselor is book 5 in the Lily Bard series. It follows 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575105348