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    <body><![CDATA[Normally, I do my homework, check and see if the book is part of a series, double-check to learn what type of book it is, do some research on the author, but I didn't do any of that for this book, and I won't make that mistake again.  I had been given this book, I read the back, and I plowed right i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46394141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed every one of Charlaine Harris' 'Shakespeare' mysteries.  These are much darker than her other series with the exception of the 'Harper Connelly' series.  If you're expecting anything like her 'Dead' series...don't.  But if you like a gritty mystery with a kick-ass heroine with a dark pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37903343">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one has been my favorite so far.  It takes place outside the comfort of Lily's new home and life in Shakespeare and finds her revisiting her childhood home for her sister's wedding.  Lily doesn't want to be there, but it seems the visit might be cathartic for both her and her family--so long as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39391657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great entry in the Lily Bard Mystery series.  In this one, Lily travels home during the holidays to be a bridesmaid in her sister's wedding, and of course trouble follows her... as does her sexy new boyfriend Jack!  ;)  <br/><br/>We learn a bit more about Lily's background in this one as she...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19591428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I truly chuckled with this one....weddings can bring lots of options for the comical.and the serious.    This is my favorite of the 2 I have read so far.<br/><br/>Even in a sleepy Arkansas town, the holidays can be murder.<br/><br/>Lily Bard is going home for the holidays. More comfortable in ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68884514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is centered around every parent's 2 worse nightmares: kidnapping and/or child raped or hurt.  The main character, Lily had been raped and knifed seven years previously.  She has rebuilt her life in Shakespeare, AK, and avoided her family for years.  Now she is heading back to her hometown ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55078019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As much as I've enjoyed the setting of Shakespeare, Arkansas, for the rest of this series, I did enjoy the change of scenery as protagonist Lily Bard returned to her small hometown of Bartley for her sister's wedding. Since I've just recently read the first book in this series (backtracking a bit), ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46396192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in the mood for mystery, and I thoroughly blame the holiday season as well as having just read the first of the Aurora Teagardens on picking up <em>Shakespeare's Christmas</em>, the third of the five Lily Bard novels. And, as it's turned out, the last of the ones I hadn't read yet (in no small part bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39564737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've fallen in love with the Lily Bard character and can't wait to read all of the other books in this series (along with the rest of Harris' books - like the Sookie Stackhouse series on which they based HBO's <em>True Blood</em>). Lily is a smart, kick-ass, yet strange heroin with a dark and traumatic past ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38033483">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Lily Bard mystery by the prolific Charlaine Harris. As with the first volume in this series we love the heroine. Lily is stubborn, moody and oh so gusty as she solves an old kidnapping that might interfere with the wedding of her sister.  Of course its not so easy for Lily to go home again, where ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74938491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this one was quite a bit better than book #2 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32510.Shakespeare_s_Champion_Lily_Bard_Mystery_2_" title="Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard Mystery, #2) by Charlaine Harris">Shakespeare's Champion</a> and I even liked the plot and mystery more than book # 1 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45020.Shakespeare_s_Landlord_Lily_Bard_Mystery_1_" title="Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard Mystery, #1) by Charlaine Harris">Shakespeare's Landlord</a>.<br/><br/>Lily's Sister is getting married and Lily needs to go home to participate in all the pre-wedding celebrations because she is the maid of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76815491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lily hides a traumatic past under a prickly exterior, but, in the series' third book (after Shakespeare's Champion, 1997), this karate expert lowers her defenses just long enough to reconcile with her family and help solve a series of grisly murders. Returning to her home town of Bartley (a stone's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68178177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lily Goes home to her sister's wedding, and has to deal with memories of her past. The memories of what was done to her are  still fresh in the minds of the people from her hometown. Of course there's a murder and her new love interest Jack is on the case. Lily spends her time before the wedding try...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77542077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The whole series has been wonderful so far.  It has been a while since I enjoyed a good mystery and I have Ms. Harris to thank for it. I love Lily.  She is so broken and yet more put together than some of the people that surround her.  Her tanacity and ability to survive and still want to help other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45814406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to find a mystery that I enjoyed so much from the lady I think of as a vampire romance author. It was an interesting story plot, but not overly complex. There was a limited number of suspects. It moved along quickly and had enough action that it kept me involved and engaged. There we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77913958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lily Bard is going home for the Holidays and her sister's wedding.  Her boyfriend is trying to find a girl who was kidnapped off her porch 8 years ago as a baby.  A murder is potentially tied to the kidnapping and Lily does not have a good feeling about her would be brother in law.  <br/>This is th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48459817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lily Bard can't even go home to serve as a maid of honor in her sister's wedding without being drawn into a murder investigation. Her new boyfriend, Jack Leeds, is pursuing a lead on an eight year old kidnapping of an infant. Someone mailed a picture of 3 girls from the sister's hometown to the pare...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70356136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great read in the Lily Bard Mystery series. I read this one immediately following #2 in the series, Shakespeare's Champion and am glad that I did. This one takes up right where the second one left off with Lily and Jack forging a new relationship. <br/><br/>In this book, Lily heads home to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19543903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely my favorite Charlaine Harris novel to date.  I like Lily Bard so much, and it was really nice to see her growth against the backdrop of her home town and strained family relationships.  This was perhaps the most tightly plotted, too, with characters who really seemed like they stayed in c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61607074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book two in the Lily Bard mystery series.  I loved this installment.  Lily goes home for her sister's wedding.  Not only is there a mysterious murder(s) but we follow the development of Lily as she works through healing from her brutal kidnapping and rape.  Which took her to Shakespeare to begin wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50208973">more...</a>]]></body>
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