Real murders: an Aurora Teagarden mystery
(Book)
An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying in Harris's third novel, as a series of killings patterned after celebrated murders is perpetrated on the small community of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (Roe) Teagarden, professional librarian, belongs to the Real Murders club, a group of 12 enthusiasts who gather monthly to study famous baffling or unsolved crimes. As a meeting is to begin, Roe discovers the massacred body of a club member. She recognizes the method of slaughter as imitating the very crime she was to address that night--suddenly her life as armchair sleuth assumes an eerie reality. The murderer continues to claim victims, each in the style of a different historical killer. Roe herself becomes a target, and also attracts two admirers, Robin Crusoe, a famed mystery writer new to Lawrenceton, and club member/detective Arthur Smith. Death seems to have infused new life into her waning social calendar, an irony not lost on this pensive character. Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray.
Notes
Harris, C. (2007). Real murders: an Aurora Teagarden mystery. New York, Berkley Prime Crime.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Harris, Charlaine. 2007. Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery. New York, Berkley Prime Crime.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Harris, Charlaine, Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Harris, Charlaine. Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2007.
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