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Shakespeare's Counselor

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From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO's hit series True Blood, NBC's Midnight, Texas, and Hallmark's Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, the fifth in a series where horror hides in plain sight ...

As Shakespeare, Arkansas's least sociable housecleaner, Lily Bard didn't open up to anyone. But now she wants more from life, and she's making big changes to get it. She's feeling out a new job as a PT. She's living with a man she loves. When her hard-won coping strategies leave Jack with a bloody nose, tight-lipped Lily even agrees to try group therapy.

But the health center where the survivors of Shakespeare are invited to process their trauma has bigger problems than bad coffee and hard chairs. The new counselor is fielding threatening phone calls and gruesome displays. And in a town this size, anonymity is a joke. When a potential member is murdered just before their meeting, Lily knows she's in danger, too.

She can't go backward. She can't ignore the threat. With her future on the line, Lily will have to discover for herself who's worth trusting—and who's a cold-blooded killer ...

"Solid, clever and quick."Library Journal

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 10, 2001
      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)FYI:Harris is also the author of the Aurora Teagarden mystery series.

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