Shakespeare's Counselor (Lily Bard, #5)

by Charlaine Harris

Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to copy with her terrifying memories, she decides to join a therapy group in her adopted hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. As it turns out, the group members' feelings aren't the only things that need sorting out, as they assemble for a session only to find a woman dead, left on display to send a twisted message.

Lily soon finds herself embroiled in the murder and its aftermath. Some of her own terrible secrets have been dredged up, and she may not be able to rest until she can untangle the 'who' and the 'why' of this terrible crime. But can she do so before the killer strikes again - and before her own nightmares send her over the edge?

• ISBN10: 0312277628
• ISBN13: 9780312277628
• Publish Date: 6 November 2001
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Minotaur Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 232
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

The last book in the Lily Bard series and it showed. While it was nice to see Lily resolve many of her issues, the plot itself meandered around until it mercifully came to an unsatisfying end. I haven't felt this cheated since I read Murder On The Orient Express.

Worth the read to close out the series, which is why I gave it 2 stars, but if I was judging on the merits of story alone it would have garnered only 1 star.

[wyvernfriend]

Lily is getting more and more involved with Jack and his business, and finally goes to some counselling to deal with some of her issues to do with her kidnapping and rape when she was younger. Things get complicated when one of her fellow members is killed.

It's interesting, the characters do develop but it is quite slow.