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"I connected with a hard blow to the nose, rolled on top of him, gripped his neck, and started to squeeze. After the pain, the unfathomable humiliation, this rage was completely pure and good, His hands gripped my wrists, struggled to pull my fingers away. He was making noises, hoarse and pleading, and I gradually realized he was saying my name. That wasn't part of the memory." Thus begins SHAKESPEARE'S COUNSELOR, the fifth Lily Bard mystery, set in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily's lover, Jack Reed, ex-Memphis policeman, is the one she is attacking in her sleep. The nightmare that causes her to start beating on him is about the rape she was subjected to several years earlier. The rape that caused her to move to Shakespeare and start over as a daily housekeeper. Jack finally persuades Lily to join a therapy group, led by Tamsin Lynd. Lily has cut down on her house cleaning jobs. She only works for three families, all on Monday with one of them also attended to on Thursdays. The other days of the week, she is working as an apprentice PI with Jack and he is more than willing to give her the time she needs to undergo therapy. She goes to a session and finds several other local women have undergone the same trauma that she has, One night, they arrive at the health center and find the door they normally use blocked shut. When they finally pry it open, they find a murdered man in Tamsin's office. Tamsin has hidden herself in the therapy room, and tells Lily she is being stalked. And then her husband is apparently stabbed. Lily has to get to the bottom of Tamsin's problem before she can get rid of her own chimeras.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2005
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