Shakespeare’s Champion
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When Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of a local body builder-his neck broken by a barbell-the town’s underlying racial tension starts to boil over. The white victim was somehow connected to two unsolved murders of black residents of Shakespeare-and a persistent policeman is determined to stop the killing. But it is Lily herself who may have to choose whether to stay and fight for justice, or run away one more time.Amazon.com 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 reflect for more than a second that it’s an manufacturing accident. Not when it’s the third death in a couple of months in a town hardly huge 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 weirder 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 terrible, 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
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Lily Bard fled her Tennessee home, expecting to find peace by moving to the tiny town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. Though she works hard as a cleaning woman, for a while, Lily enjoys her new surroundings, but hideous change is in the air. Repressed prejudices rise to the surface, polarizing the black and whites into two opposing communities, and a treacherous militia is starting to surface.
To save his town from the treacherous schism and to protect his father, who he feels has fallen in with grave individuals, the town’s leading citizen hires an outsider, Jack Leeds, to identify the ringleaders. The detective, from the same hometown that Lily is from, has his own scandalous past. Jack and Lily renovate a deep emotional bond that may be the only thing that could save both of them from a rising threat to their very lives.
The sequel to SHAKESPEARE’S LANDLORD (which was named as one of “Mostly Murders’” top 10) is as excellent and, in some ways, better than its predecessor. SHAKESPEARE’S CHAMPION embodies a first rate mystery, but this time also includes a special relationship drama about two wounded soldiers who heal each additional through their like for one another. Charlaine Harris’ newest entry deserves top ten consideration again.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
CH brings this up a lot in some of her past books, and I just don’t get it. This book is a excellent read, but it is darker than I would have wanted. The whole racist group plot was a small weird and at times too contrived for me. But, I liked the book, so it got that many stars. This book in the series is my least favorite, though. A excellent note is that vital character development starts in this book that carries through the entire series.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
If you haven’t selected up the Lily Bard series – check it out!
If you like these, you will like the Harper Connelly series, Sookie Stackhouse series, and Aurora Teagarden series – I read all of persons, then ongoing these, and am enjoying them very much.
I can’t judge I just “establish” Charlaine Harris last year!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I waited over a year to get this book before it was rereleased, having come across the series only recently, and it was well worth it. I just wish Ms. Harris would write more in the series, although Lily and her spouse made a cameo in the Pooky Stackhouse series, it wasn’t enough.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
So, I gave the last book in the series a not-so-wonderful review, but this installment gets an A+! I was having a hard time caring about Lily in the last book. It wasn’t that I didn’t like her, I was trying to, it’s just that she was so..hard-shelled. But anyway, this book was wonderful and I am on the third one! I’ve already bought the reast of the books in the series and can’t wait to read them all!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5