Welcome back to the sleepy little town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where secrets come to hide. Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session with counselor Tamsin Lynd, determined finally to face her violent past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. But who was the message meant for? Why? And who's next to fall victim to a killer's head games? This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.
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By E. Taylor
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Shakespeare's Counselor is the fifth Lily bard book and a really good read. As usual there is a murder and Lily gets dragged into solving it purely by circumstance.
Lily reluctantly joins a support group for rape victims as she is having trouble dealing with her past and despite herself actually seems to benefit from the group. Unfortunately, before too long somebody dies and Lily gets dragged into solving the case. There are lots of twists and turns and enough to keep you guessing right up to the end when the murderer is revealed.
Her relationship with Jack also deepens and the two seem to grow to trust each other on a deeper level. Lily also starts working for Jacks PI firm, partly because her cleaning business is slightly flagging and partly because she seems to end up solving crimes all the time anyway so why not get paid for it.
This is most likely the last Lily novel as Charlaine Harris is busy on other projects! I hope she revisits her in the future.
If you liked the others then you will like this one and if you haven't read them you should check them out. Use Amazons link to the series. They are good airplane or holiday books as they are short and entertaining.
The Lily Bard ("Shakespeare") Series
Lily reluctantly joins a support group for rape victims as she is having trouble dealing with her past and despite herself actually seems to benefit from the group. Unfortunately, before too long somebody dies and Lily gets dragged into solving the case. There are lots of twists and turns and enough to keep you guessing right up to the end when the murderer is revealed.
Her relationship with Jack also deepens and the two seem to grow to trust each other on a deeper level. Lily also starts working for Jacks PI firm, partly because her cleaning business is slightly flagging and partly because she seems to end up solving crimes all the time anyway so why not get paid for it.
This is most likely the last Lily novel as Charlaine Harris is busy on other projects! I hope she revisits her in the future.
If you liked the others then you will like this one and if you haven't read them you should check them out. Use Amazons link to the series. They are good airplane or holiday books as they are short and entertaining.
The Lily Bard ("Shakespeare") Series
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Lily Bard is a cleaning woman with a sad and notorious past. She lives in the small town of Shakespeare and the locals have no secrets from someone who checks out their drawers and washing. A past rape victim, she takes self-defence classes and walks at night rather than have nightmares.
In this fifth book Lily has been urged to join a therapy group and one evening she arrives to find the counsellor has been killed in her office. Lily begins to have doubts about the people she knows - some intimately.
She has a boyfriend called Jack who is a PI and now she starts to work for him, with a chase through a hardware store at night for action at the end.
This is a good series, full of personal detail and small concerns, rather than the author's Sookie Stackhouse vampire series which started off well but escalated beyond my caring about the characters.
Better for women than men, but great for mystery fans. (If I lived in Shakespeare, given the murder rate, I'd leave.)
In this fifth book Lily has been urged to join a therapy group and one evening she arrives to find the counsellor has been killed in her office. Lily begins to have doubts about the people she knows - some intimately.
She has a boyfriend called Jack who is a PI and now she starts to work for him, with a chase through a hardware store at night for action at the end.
This is a good series, full of personal detail and small concerns, rather than the author's Sookie Stackhouse vampire series which started off well but escalated beyond my caring about the characters.
Better for women than men, but great for mystery fans. (If I lived in Shakespeare, given the murder rate, I'd leave.)
By Cloggie Downunder
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Shakespeare's Counselor is the fifth in the Lily Bard series by Charlaine Harris. Lily Bard, Shakespeare's first-rate house cleaner, has decided to train as a Private Investigator, so is working for Jack Leeds. She has also finally admitted that she needs counselling for the trauma she suffered some years ago in Memphis, so joins a group of rape survivors moderated by therapist Tamsin Lynd. But Tamsin has some problems of her own, in the form of a persistent and dangerous stalker. When one of the group members is found, just prior to a therapy session, impaled by stake on the noticeboard in Tamsin's office, Lily wonders if it is a case of mistaken identity, or a message, and if so, for whom. In this instalment, Lily works in a gym, takes part in a stake-out, lands in the hospital, does quite a bit of sleeping and learns the effects of a stun gun, firsthand. Lily Bard is a very human heroine, acknowledging her faults as well as her strengths, and with each book, she becomes less prickly and more sociable. Whilst I would love to read more of Lily Bard, in a way I am grateful that Harris has seen fit to stop before she has done a Jessica Fletcher and killed off everyone in Shakespeare. The Lily Bard series were my first taste of Charlaine Harris, but I will certainly read more of her work. A fitting ending to the series.
By Rebecca
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The most disappointing thing about this book is that it's the last of the Lily Bard series currently available. Harris is focusing a lot more of her energy on the far more popular Sookie Stackhouse series, which is absolutely her right. But I would love to have another of these to look forward to reading another of the Lily Bard books.
This book has Lily softening quite a bit from previous books. She seeks counseling after she has a PTSD episode has her attacking Jack in her sleep, and, meanwhile, she has an upsetting medical situation that forces her to take it easy, lest she wind up injuring herself. Neither of these situations make her weak; this is still the same buff, tough Lily Bard, but one who's willing to concede that she's not the only one who suffers if she hurts, and who puts forth a much greater effort to see things from others' eyes.
What I liked best about this book is that it addresses the disappointing victim-blaming mentality Lily engages in from earlier books. Lily is given good reason to rethink her stance, and the argument given in the book is sound. I was relieved to see that Harris wasn't promoting the notion, implicitly or not, that women are to blame for what someone else does to them.
I can't remember the last time I read a book this fast. I got through it in one sitting
This book has Lily softening quite a bit from previous books. She seeks counseling after she has a PTSD episode has her attacking Jack in her sleep, and, meanwhile, she has an upsetting medical situation that forces her to take it easy, lest she wind up injuring herself. Neither of these situations make her weak; this is still the same buff, tough Lily Bard, but one who's willing to concede that she's not the only one who suffers if she hurts, and who puts forth a much greater effort to see things from others' eyes.
What I liked best about this book is that it addresses the disappointing victim-blaming mentality Lily engages in from earlier books. Lily is given good reason to rethink her stance, and the argument given in the book is sound. I was relieved to see that Harris wasn't promoting the notion, implicitly or not, that women are to blame for what someone else does to them.
I can't remember the last time I read a book this fast. I got through it in one sitting
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