Friday Memes: Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris

 Happy Friday everybody!

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

I gathered myself, my bare feet gripping the floor, my thigh muscles braced for the attack. I stepped forward on the ball of my left foot, pivoting as I moved, and my right leg swung up, bent at the knee. My foot lashed out, returned instantly. The black Everlast punching bag rocked on its chain.

Friday 56:

"What has happened here?" the Reverend McCorkindale asked sternly.

"Norval got red-blooded, so I cooled him down."

That would require the least explanation, I figured. 

This week I am spotlighting a reread. I read Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris sometime before 2008 and recently got the audiobook at an Audible Sale. I chose it as an audiobook partly because it is relatively short and partly because I was curious to see if the story held up.

Here is the description from Amazon:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s Shakespeare's Landlord is the first book in the Lily Bard mystery series.

Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily Bard came to the small town of Shakespeare to escape her dark and violent past. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. So when she spots a dead body being dumped in the town green, she's inclined to stay well away. But she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and despite her best efforts, she's dragged into the murder case.

Lily doesn't care who did it, but when the police and local community start pointing fingers in her direction, she realizes that proving her innocence will depend on finding the real killer in quiet, secretive Shakespeare.