Shakespeare's Landlord

Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 1

De: Charlaine Harris

Narrado por: Julia Gibson

From the Anthony Award-winning author of the immensely popular Sookie Stackhouse mysteries comes the first book starring Lily Bard, a reclusive cleaning lady with a penchant for karate. When Lily finds and reports a dead body, her shady past and connections to potential perpetrators make her a leading suspect.©1996 Charlaine Harris (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

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"While on a late-night job in tiny Shakespeare, Ark., Lily Bard, 31, sees a furtive figure placing large plastic garbage bags in the local park and, untying one, discovers the body of her former landlord. In a quick but anonymous phone call (she is determined to avoid any questioning), she reports it to the police chief. With skill and wry wit, Harris, the author of the Aurora Teagarden series, soon reveals the horrific facts in Lily's background that explain why she is solitary, confrontational, obsessed with self-defense - and why she chooses, despite a first-rate education, to eke out a living as a cleaning woman....Harris's finely tuned, colorful and suspenseful tale, filled with vigorous and unique characters, will leave readers hoping it's the start of a series." ( Publishers Weekly)
"[Lily Bard is] the equal of Kay Scarpetta." ( Library Journal)

Very good book

What did you love best about Shakespeare's Landlord?

The Pace of this book was great. Kept me interested during my daily commutes and while walking.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lily was the main character and my favorite. She isn't perfect and don't know that I'd want to spend time with her in reality, but she is a great leading lady.

Which scene was your favorite?

Any scene where Lilly was cleaning the houses of Shakespeare's well to do families.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, too much to digest at once. Great to come back to again and again though.

Great story, but downloaded book has technical pro

Really loved the characters, and had a difficult time putting it down. However, the audiobook has a tendency to stop frequently because of technical errors... very annoying

Harris has created another strong and compelling lead character in Lily Bard

This is a great story and performance. I enjoyed getting to know Lily Bard, who worked hard to emerge strong despite her past. The story kept me engaged and all loose ends were tied up at the end. I look forward to enjoying the other books in this series.

Started with promise

I am a big Charlaine Harris fan, I was very excited when this became available, it started with promise, proceeded to dry and ended flat.
Charlaine has a dry sense of humor that she normally weaves through out her books, along with intrigue and guise, and this book was sadly lacking her normal luster.
As a side note this is not a supernatural book, which was actually intriguing for me at first since I am used to her sci-fi/fantasy books, but as I said this book was for me disappointing.

Not Sookie Stackhouse

If you are looking for Sookie Stackhouse, move on down the line. This is a non-paranormal mystery series. It is more of a Murder She Wrote book although Lily is definitely NOT a Jessica Fletcher in any way. She is dark because of her past which she wants to keep in the past. It is revealed, however, and that is the part that is difficult to read but necessary to understanding this complex character.

Liked it

I will be finishing the series, but I feel like the narrator makes the character almost unlikable. It's more tone of voice than actual words that make you think the main character is mean and a huge snob.

Enjoyable

I always like a Charlaine Harris book. Not my favorite but enjoyable. One the less.

Great narration!

I love this little series of Charlaine Harris. I feel like she does such a wonderful job. But I loved the narrator of this. Such really encapsulated Lily’s voice for me.

Enjoyable

Lilly Bard starts out as a very unlikeable heroine. As the story goes on we find out the secret that has controlled her life and Lilly relaxes a little. The characters are pretty good, normal folks aside from the murder and mayhem stuff.I'm not sure if this is a series but if so, I would read more about Lilly.

Really liked the characters, FYI rape scene

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I find it hard in my mind to separate each individual book in this series. One reason is that I read them all one after the other because I was so interested in Lily, our main character. My chief pleasure in these books is in watching Lily develop and change over the series. Lily is a woman hiding from her life in the wake of being the victim of a violent rape and associated media attention. Lily tells us her back story. In general I cannot stand to read rape scenes but I was able to get through this since it is told by Lily herself. That experience has made her the character that she is. You can see the results in Lily's attitudes and habits, her toughness and her vulnerability. There's nothing wimpy about Lily and I really enjoyed her interactions. She often made me laugh. I wasn't sure cleaning woman would make the most interesting occupation for our amateur sleuth but it actually works really well and there was an interesting mystery with a good assortment of suspects. Also Julia Gibson does a perfect Lily.