Lily Bard Books in Order

In this final Lily Bard mystery, Lily joins a group therapy program to confront her past, only to have violence erupt at the counselor's office and drag her into an investigation that forces her to balance hard earned trust with her instinct to run.

When one of Lily Bard's cleaning clients and sometime rival is found dead in a parked car, gossip in Shakespeare turns vicious, and Lily must navigate ugly small town rumors and her own painful history to uncover the truth.

Lily Bard reluctantly returns to her hometown for a family Christmas and an old friend's wedding, but a long unsolved child kidnapping case and fresh danger in the church aisles prove that the past in small towns is never really past.

Trying to keep her head down in Shakespeare, Arkansas, Lily Bard instead finds a body in her gym and a wave of racist violence sweeping the town, pushing her to use her fighting skills and cleaner's eye for detail to uncover who is stirring up hate.

Cleaning woman Lily Bard keeps to herself in Shakespeare, Arkansas, until she glimpses someone dumping a body in the park using her garbage cart, forcing her to juggle her need for anonymity with a growing determination to see a killer caught.