Shakespeare's Champion

This book is the second installment in the Lily Bard Mystery series, following the events of Shakespeare's Landlord. While each book features a self-contained mystery, reading them in order provides a richer understanding of Lily's ongoing personal journey and character development.

Shakespeare's Champion, and the Lily Bard series generally, is a traditional cozy mystery with a focus on small-town intrigue and character-driven investigation, featuring a protagonist with a background in martial arts. It lacks the supernatural elements and more explicit content found in Harris's later Sookie Stackhouse books.