Lily Bard · Book 1
Shakespeare's Landlord
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9781429529624
- Type
- novel
About this book
Charlaine Harris introduced Lily Bard in 1996 with Shakespeare's Landlord, a 224-page series opener following a survivor of a brutal assault who has rebuilt her life as a guarded house cleaner and karate instructor in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. Harris has described the series as her attempt at genuinely hardboiled crime writing, darker and more interior than her cozier Aurora Teagarden novels.
Its place in Lily Bard
Shakespeare's Landlord is book 1 in the Lily Bard series. It is followed by Shakespeare's Champion. 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 9781429529624