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Title: Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0-440-61406-6 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The beginning of a new series
Comment: Charlaine Harris has created another intriguing character in Lily Bard who debuts in *Shakespeare's Landlord*. This is no cozy, with a librarian stumbling over bodies while studying true crime as her prior series began. Lily is much more scarred, literally and psychologically, and harder and more impenetrable than Aurora Teagarden. It does not take long for the reader to comprehend that there has been a major trauma in Lily's life as a result of which she has cut herself off from society. She is a college graduate who cleans houses and runs errands for people. She has no friends while knowing intimate details of many people's lives. She prowls the streets of Shakespeare at night when she cannot sleep. One night, while prowling, she sees a figure wheel a cart, hers as it happens, into the park across the street and then return, cart now empty. Curious and afraid she will be accused of involvement in some crime, she goes into the park and finds a dead body. She reports it anonymously, but she cannot stay anonymous, nor can her secret remain hiddden. The story is solid, fun to read, with very interesting people, even though I did not really care very much about the identity of the murderer. The dead man was, by all accounts, unliked, a blackmailer, a miser whom we see only through others' eyes. It is hard to have any sympathy for him and concern for "whodunit" would not make me read further. But Lily Bard intrigues the reader as she does several men in the town of Shakespeare. However, now that her secret past is known, at least by these men, will the absence of mystery make the next episode less appealing? It will be interesting to see where Ms. Harris takes Lily Bard in her next adventure
Rating: 3
Summary: Good and interesting
Comment: I enjoyed this first book in the Lily Bard/Shakespeare series. The mystery is not one with too many twists and turns, but the characters, especially the protagonist, are nice to know. I have read each of the next four books and enjoyed each one a little bit more than the first.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting Beginning to a Series
Comment: The author was recommended by the same friend who got me started on Laurel K. Hamilton, although she was indicating the vampire series, not the Shakespeare one. However, in reading a bio on the author, I discovered she now lives in my hometown, so figured I'd give her Arkansas based series a try first. The heroine, Lily, shows some signs of potential "Kick Arse Heroine Whom No One Can Defeat" syndrome, which I hope is only my wariness from the hugely disappointing Anita Blake books. However, Lily does frequently fall flat on her face, and perhaps the indications of gathering a harem will be banished in other books. As for the story, it is a nice little murder mystery, if a little too-pat and a bit unsatisfactory on the actual Whodunit. I will try the next to see if she irons out the kinks (one of which is a major geographic goof!).
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Title: Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0440613523 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0440234999 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0312277628 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0425196992 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441011675 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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