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shakespeares christmas a lily bard mystery
what makes charlaine harriss novels stand out among traditional cozy mysteries is the decided noirish spin she puts on the seemingly typical southern town of shakespeare arkansas and her heroine . lily bard a karate devotee by choice and a cleaning woman by trade is a woman with a dark past ; shes fiercely protective of her independence and reserved about herself . in short lily makes a refreshing compelling amateur sleuth . p in shakespeares christmas lilys third appearance she heads home to bartley arkansas always an uncomfortable scenario for the introverted lily for her sister varenas christmas wedding . but lilys got more to worry about than being a bridesmaid for a sister to whom shes no longer close . soon after she arrives in bartley lilys private detective boyfriend shows up too and not just for moral support hes investigating a four year old unsolved kidnapping . try as she might lily cant help but get involved when she discovers that the case hits dangerously close to home for varenas new husband is the widowed father of a girl bearing a remarkable resemblance to the vanished child .
cleaning lady and karate expert lily bard returns home for her sisters christmas wedding and becomes caught up in an unsolved four year old kidnapping when she discovers that her new brother in laws daughter bears a striking resemblance to the missingchild