This book's got enough twists to make The Bard proud. And keep you turning pages well into the night.

In Shakespeare's Counselor, the fifth Lily Bard mystery novel, Charlaine Harris drops you in the middle of a nightmare. Our heroine is struggling with a male attacker. She strikes his face only to wake up and realize she's bloodied her lover's nose instead of the attacker she'd thought was going to rape her.

It's time for Lily Bard to go to rape survivor counseling....

She reluctantly walks into the health center in Shakespeare, Arkansas, on a Tuesday evening to find that her counselor Tamsyn Lynd is receiving threatening calls. The counselor doesn't want to talk about it.

Matters only get worse from there. Lily is walking by Tamsyn's house and discovers a dead squirrel hanging on the porch.

The ante keeps getting upped. No one can figure out who would want to harm quiet, unassuming Tamsyn, but clearly someone does.

I'm not going to tell you any of the rest. You just have to read it. Believe me, it's worth the effort. I crossed over to Harris's mysteries from her Southern Vampire series and I've got to tell you -- she's awesome no matter what genre she's working in.

This is not going to be the only time I visit Shakespeare, Arkansas, and Lily Bard.