by Charlaine Harris
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When cleaning lady Lily Bard discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord, her plan of starting a quiet new life may end in her death.
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 Average...., 2008-05-19
As a huge Charlaine Harris fan I recently picked up "Shakespeare's Landlord", the first Lily Bard mystery. This series deals with Lily, a cleanwoman dealing with her traumatic past by running off to a small town and making a new life for herself. One night Lily witnesses a murderer dumping a body in a nearby park area. And they are using Lily's trash can to transport the body! Desperate to hide her own secrets, Lily begins her own search into who murdered the gossipy landlord of Shakespeare Garden Apartments...and every tenant is a supect! I flew through this book quickly, its kind of short and sweet. Well sweet, it the wrong word. Very little that happens in this story is sweet. This is the darkest story I have read from Charlaine (after her rape saga "A Secret Rage"). This mystery is definately worth reading and the clues and suspects are interesting. The reveal of the murderer is a little to quickly resolved. I was slightly disappointed by that. I would recommend this book to Harris' devotees and to those who like their mysteries a little less 'cozy'.
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 A must-read!, 2008-02-08
Another excellent book by Charlaine Harris! I love everything she has written and wish she could write faster!! This is a great book and a great series!!!
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 O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven...-Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2008-01-20
For four years Lily Bard has lived and worked in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. While she cleans the houses and businesses of the town folk she learns some of their secrets, but she's known and respected for being closed mouthed. Even though Lily is a known and recognized member of the community, she isn't really close to anyone; she keeps to herself. Lily has a past she'd like to keep there.
When the leading Shakespeare busybody and landlord turns up murdered, suddenly the people that she has worked for are all under suspicion. When the local police chief starts sniffing around Lily's door, she decides she needs to try to locate the murderer.
With only 214 pages, I was a little skeptical about how this mystery would get pulled off. I ended up being pleasantly impressed. Charlaine Harris creates a detailed setting and introduces a town full of colorful people. Having grown up in a small town; it was easy to recognize some of the characters and relate to the life and town she describes so well.
The mystery is solid and the set up compelling. The story is detail rich and there are multiple layers and twists and turns that keep the reader enthralled. Ms. Harris has created yet another wonderful heroine in Lily, whose past is ugly and the emotions that the telling of it evokes are genuine, frightening and a little heart breaking. Enjoy!
Cherise Everhard, January 2008
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Quick Read, 2007-12-17
When I started this book I had another book I had planned to read after I finished this one, but instead I had to go out the night I finished this to buy the next book in the series. I loved it! Its a fairly short book and I read it in a few days, if it wasn't the holiday season and I had more time I probably would have read it in a day. I found myself pulling it out every free chance I got because I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next.
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A Great Author Building Muscle, 2007-11-26
Of course there are similarities between all of this author's top notch female characters: working class, heightened perceptual abilities, unusual relationships with males. But in this novel, the pattern is broken just enough to bring in new interest.The closest comparison would be the "cozy" English village murder mystery with the local sharp-eyed detective present and able to solve the case from a small group of local suspects. However, being American, we have to juice up our lead character with a horrific recovery story and keep the pace very snappy. At the end, there were characters I wanted to know more about and I think this book could easily use an extended re-write. I know I would buy it again just to have those questions answered.
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