Shakespeare's Champion - Softcover

Harris, Charlaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409147134 ISBN 13: 9781409147138

Publisher: Orion, 2013

Synopsis

The second Lily Bard novel from the bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series. A Lily Bard Mystery: 2 Lily Bard is hiding from her past. She's interested in getting away from her troubles, not finding more. So it's unfortunate that she stumbles across the corpse of a local bodybuilder in the gym, his neck broken by a barbell. With this death, the town's racial tensions reach boiling point. The dead man was connected to two unsolved murders of black residents. And as one dogged policeman tries to stop the killing, Lily is faced with a choice: stay and fight for justice, or run away one more time.

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Review

No steel magnolia, Lily Bart is one blunt, tough Southern woman--a tiny, karate-chopping, bodybuilding dynamo who's come to Shakespeare, Arkansas, to restart her life after a series of traumatic events just hinted at in this second novel in Charlaine Harris's series (after Shakespeare's Landlord). When she slips into her gym for an early morning workout and finds Del Packard with a barbell across his throat, she doesn't think for more than a second that it's an accident. Not when it's the third death in a couple of months in a town hardly big enough for its own WalMart. Then the blue broadsheets with thinly veiled hints of white supremacist activity start turning up under the windshield wipers of every car on Main Street. Lily's a relative newcomer to Shakespeare, but as a cleaning woman for the local landed gentry, she's privy to many secrets that most outsiders never learn. When a handsome stranger keeps turning up at the scene of an increasingly bizarre series of events, including a burglary at one of her regular clients and a bombing in a black church, she suspects he may be more than an innocent bystander. Which is too bad, because he stirs up desires that Lily hasn't felt for any man for a very long time. Lily Bard is a complex woman who embodies many of the contradictions of the modern South--its dark side as well as its charm--and this suspenseful, deftly written novel will send new fans scrambling to read its predecessor. --Jane Adams

From the Publisher

"Lily Bard brings new meaning to the term 'strong woman.' She's the equal of Kay Scarpetta, Kinsey Millhone, and V.I. Warshawski even on a bad day."
--Library Journal

"Gripping...full of surprises...an engaging puzzler."
--Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409147134
• ISBN 13: 9781409147138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240