- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Dell; Auflage: Reissue (1. März 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0440234999
- ISBN-13: 978-0440234999
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,7 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 261.329 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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At the first appearance of the maid Lily Bard in Shakespeare's Landlord , we predicted crime fiction's first cleaning-lady series. It's nice to be on the money (at least once in a while), for here is Lily in her third adventure. And she's in rare form, too, as she steels herself to visit her family on the occasion of her sister Varena's wedding. Lily, physically and psychologically scarred by a horrifying sexual assault years before, still finds it hard to attend social events as she struggles with her wariness and distrust of all people. But she is overwhelmingly happy when her PI friend Jack Leeds shows up for the prenuptial festivities. Jack is on a case--an unsolved kidnapping of a small baby some years back, a baby that might very well be the eight-year-old daughter of Varena's fiance . Lily does the only thing she can--help Jack resolve the case before the wedding. Lily Bard is one of the best-drawn and most compelling characters in contemporary mystery fiction--complex, smart, streetwise, tough. Add tight plotting and a smooth style, and it's no surprise that Harris has reached a new high. Don't miss it. Stuart Miller
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But its neither Shakespeare nor Christmas, actually, since Lily Bard, the most formidable cleaning woman in Shakespeare, Ark., leaves her adopted hometown in the opening chapter to return to her family's queasy bosom in Bartley for her sister Varena's wedding, a Christmas Eve affair that's bound to upstage the usual round of holiday festivities. What it doesn't upstage is a long-unsolved kidnapping--the snatching of newborn Summer Dawn Macklesby from her family's porch eight years before, a crime that springs to alarming life again courtesy of an anonymously donated newspaper clipping announcing that Summer Dawn is one of the three eight-year-olds pictured. The candidates: Varena's next-door neighbor Eve Osborn, her minister's daughter Krista O'Shea, and Anna Kingery, daughter of Varena's intended. Lily, who's herself the survivor of a brutal abduction and would rather be working than socializing anyway, isn't about to back down from this challenge, particularly after she and Varena stumble on the bodies of Dr. Dave LeMay and his nurse Binnie Armstrong--a powerful reminder that the Macklesby kidnaping has yet to be laid to rest. The detection is routine (Lily snoops around as she cleans the suspects' houses), and bucolic Bartley is no Shakespeare. Only Lily herself, in full attack mode, carries the day. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Once again, the complex world of Lily Bard shows that, although you can go home again, you'd better watch out what happens once you get there. This powerful third novel in the Lily Bard saga explores more of Lily's past, as well as her relationships with her family - most of whom would rather forget what happened to her. Charlaine Harris continues to entertain and enthrall us while weaving a great story. I can't wait for the 4th installment of this most excellent series.
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I really enjoyed this third chapter in the life of Lily Bard, a cleaning woman with a bent for cleaning up murder mysteries. I find the characters so life-like and believable that I can't wait for the fourth in this series. This time out we learn more about Lily's family and get some insight into what helped form Lily into the person that she is. I really enjoyed meeting her mom and dad and sister-about to be married-Varena. The mysterious Jack Leeds is back again and involved with Lily and the kidnapping investigation. This is a cozy on the darkish side but I think cozy readers will enjoy it as much as I did.
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If you haven't met Lily Bard of Shakespeare, Ak, you are in for a rare treat in the mystery genre. A victim of gang rape, coupled with a vicious knifing, Lily has reinvented herself, left home and become a cleaning lady in a small town. Now, however, she must go home for her sister's wedding and the family from whom she's become almost estranged. On her first morning home, she and her sister discover the bludgeoned bodies of a doctor and his nurse. Also in town on the case of a child abducted years before is the new love of Lily's life, Jack. One of the suspects in the kidnapping is her sister's widowed fiance. A taut, well-told tale of suspense with three dimensional characters. I would suggest that before reading this, one should read "Shakepeare's Landlord" and "Shakespeare's Champion." This different and much darker series by the author of the Aurora Teagarden books should not be missed.
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ein guter Krimi, aber
aber ich wurde nicht warm mit den Charakteren und daher kann ich nicht die volle Punktzahl vergeben. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 17 Monaten von Andrea Maier veröffentlicht
a cleaning lady räumt auf
Lily Bard unsere Heldin ,hat wieder einen Fall zu lösen,sie muss die Unschuld eines Mannes beweisen,der ihre Schwester heiraten wird. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Februar 2010 von uli ulrich
Hochzeiten und andere Katastrophen
Der dritte Teil der Lily-Bard-Reihe spielt überwiegend in Bartley, nicht in Shakespeare, denn, wie bereits im letzten Band angedeutet, fährt Lily kurz vor Weihnachten in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. März 2007 von Sabrina
The heroine's personal life overshadows the mystery.
This series features Lily Bard, an emotionally and physically scarred cleaning lady with a penchant for solving mysteries. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Sharon Wylie
Good story but the writing was pretty awful.
The story of Lilly Bard visiting her family for her sister's wedding and helping solve a mystery with her detective boyfriend was pretty good. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Great mystery with deep insight into the Bard (Lily)
Lily Bard is sorry that she has to return to her hometown of Bartley, Tennessee to attend her sister's wedding. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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