Is Shakespeare's Champion part of a series?

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.

How does this book compare to Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series?

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.

Shakespeare's Champion

A Lily Bard Mystery

Crime Mystery

Pages: 224
Published: 1997
Language: English

Lily Bard just wants to keep her head down and clean houses in Shakespeare, Arkansas, while she recovers from a brutal past. When she discovers the body of a local gym owner, she is pulled into a web of racial tension and unsolved murders. Lily must decide if she will use her martial arts skills to fight for the truth or keep running from her own history.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Tense Gritty Atmospheric

Reluctant Hero Secret Identity Second Chance

Charlaine Harris

American mystery and urban fantasy novelist, best known for the Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse) series, adapted by HBO as True Blood. She also writes the Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Harper Connelly, Midnight, Texas and Gunnie Rose series. Born in Tunica, Mississippi, she holds a BA in English from Rhodes College and lives in Texas.

Lily BardProtagonist

All characters in Shakespeare's Champion

Frequently asked questions

Is Shakespeare's Champion part of a series?
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.
How does this book compare to Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series?
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.