Shakespeares Counselor
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(Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 5)
Harris continues to bring more depth to her character Lily Bard. I've enjoyed this series so far but I'm uncertain if I'll read any books that come after this one. I've gone about as far as I want to with this character. It isn't that I don't like the characters in this book or that the story line isn't good...I just feel that with so many mystery books out there I'm ready to try something new.
From Publishers Weekly
Harris's fifth Lily Bard mystery set in the small Arkansas town of Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Trollop, etc.) is good enough in part to make one wish it was better as a whole. Its mainstream novelistic promise is left unfulfilled in its adherence to genre conventions. The victim of horrendous violence and plagued by nightmares, anger and self-loathing, Lily joins a local support group headed by Tamsin Lynd, a professional counselor. Tamsin herself has a major problem. She and her husband moved from Cleveland to Shakespeare after being terrorized by a stalker who remains at large. To their horror, the stalker appears to have followed them. First they find a squirrel hung from a tree in their backyard, then the corpse of one of the group in Tamsin's office. Lily, now a professional detective working for her friend/mentor/lover, Jack Leeds, wants to help. It seems two other people connected to the original investigation have followed Tamsin to Shakespeare: one is a woman cop obsessed with catching the stalker, the other a crime writer hoping to find the stuff of a bestseller. In the end, the author delivers a solution too bizarre to be credible. The book's most serious problem, however, is its lack of focus. It would like to be a story about women's pain the trauma of rape and the terror of being stalked but in fulfilling its obligations to the detective story it loses purpose and direction, as well as most of its suspense. (Nov. 12)series.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Harris continues to bring more depth to her character Lily Bard. I've enjoyed this series so far but I'm uncertain if I'll read any books that come after this one. I've gone about as far as I want to with this character. It isn't that I don't like the characters in this book or that the story line isn't good...I just feel that with so many mystery books out there I'm ready to try something new.
From Publishers Weekly
Harris's fifth Lily Bard mystery set in the small Arkansas town of Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Trollop, etc.) is good enough in part to make one wish it was better as a whole. Its mainstream novelistic promise is left unfulfilled in its adherence to genre conventions. The victim of horrendous violence and plagued by nightmares, anger and self-loathing, Lily joins a local support group headed by Tamsin Lynd, a professional counselor. Tamsin herself has a major problem. She and her husband moved from Cleveland to Shakespeare after being terrorized by a stalker who remains at large. To their horror, the stalker appears to have followed them. First they find a squirrel hung from a tree in their backyard, then the corpse of one of the group in Tamsin's office. Lily, now a professional detective working for her friend/mentor/lover, Jack Leeds, wants to help. It seems two other people connected to the original investigation have followed Tamsin to Shakespeare: one is a woman cop obsessed with catching the stalker, the other a crime writer hoping to find the stuff of a bestseller. In the end, the author delivers a solution too bizarre to be credible. The book's most serious problem, however, is its lack of focus. It would like to be a story about women's pain the trauma of rape and the terror of being stalked but in fulfilling its obligations to the detective story it loses purpose and direction, as well as most of its suspense. (Nov. 12)series.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Journal Entry 2 by alrescate at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park - 10100 College Blvd. in Overland Park, Kansas USA on Thursday, October 22, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (10/23/2009 UTC) at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park - 10100 College Blvd. in Overland Park, Kansas USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I will be releasing this book sometime during the KC BC UnCon. Who knows what wild adventures it will have!
Congratulations on catching this book. I hope you enjoy it. When you finish this book, please journal again and share what you thought about the book. Then, please pass it along for somebody else to read. You could give it to a friend or leave it someplace, like a school, restaurant or wherever you think it might find a reader who'll love it! It would be great if you'd join. Then you could track where your books go. If you do want to join, I'd love it if you would use ALRESCATE- - that's me-- as the name of the person who referred you.
I will be releasing this book sometime during the KC BC UnCon. Who knows what wild adventures it will have!
Congratulations on catching this book. I hope you enjoy it. When you finish this book, please journal again and share what you thought about the book. Then, please pass it along for somebody else to read. You could give it to a friend or leave it someplace, like a school, restaurant or wherever you think it might find a reader who'll love it! It would be great if you'd join. Then you could track where your books go. If you do want to join, I'd love it if you would use ALRESCATE- - that's me-- as the name of the person who referred you.
Journal Entry 3 by explorer1118m from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey USA on Monday, October 26, 2009
i was able to snatch this and two other books from the Lily Bard series over the weekend. They are from the ever generous Laurali who i was lucky enough to meet at the UnCon over the weekend.
