Aurora Teagarden Mysteries – The Mommies Reviews

It’s funny as a child I enjoyed reading Mystery Books including the Hardy Boys but as I got older, I went to reading only Romance Novels. Then a couple months ago I happened upon Hallmark Movies & Mystery Channel which I got hooked on.

As I began watching the Cupcake Murders and Aurora Teagarden Mysteries along with other shows on here. Then one day David was home and Monk Charlie’s favorite show was ending and David sat down to watch TV. I mentioned Hallmar Movies and Mystery Channel to David and like me he has become hooked on the shows.

Yesterday I leaned Candace Cameron Bure is leaving the Hallmark Channel and moving to another channel which is on Friendly TV that I do watch. But this may mean it’s the end of Auora Teagarden which makes me sad. Until I found out the movies are based on a series of books written by Charlaine Harris.

Even though I already had a stack of books I want to purchase from Half Price Books if they have them now I can’t wait to go and see if they have any of Charlaine Harris books and if so I would like to get them to read with David in the evening. Hopefully once Charlie finds out there based on the movies we watch he will read the books with us.

Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015)

About:

Aurora Teagarden refers to a fictional character that is created by the sensational author Charlaine Harris. This sensational character appears in eight crime novels and is used by the author to advance several themes throughout the various novels she is a protagonist.

These novels were written from the years 1990 to the year 2003. In the 1st book of this series, we are introduced to the 28-year-old Aurora, also referred to as Roe as a professional librarian who also belongs in the Real Murderers club. This club is a group of twelve enthusiasts who gather on monthly basis to study some famous baffling and unresolved criminal cases.

Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1

This title is the first thrilling Aurora Teagarden mystery from the bestselling author of the hit TV series “True Blood”. Librarian Aurora Teagarden reckons she knows everything about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature, as she and her friends have formed a club to discuss real life killings.

But fiction soon becomes fact as more and more bodies are discovered, and the similarities between prior murders and those of Aurora’s fellow townsfolk become frighteningly common. This recording is unabridged. Typically, abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author’s work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.

Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 2

When librarian Aurora Teagarden becomes the unexpected beneficiary of a colleague’s estate, she stumbles upon the skeleton of a murder victim and sets out to clear the name of her late friend, but the real killer is still watching and waiting nearby. Reprint. AB. PW.

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

Third in Charlaine Harris’s acclaimed Aurora Teagarden mystery series.

An unexpected legacy has given former librarian Aurora “Roe” Teagarden some time on her hands, so she decides to try selling real estate. Her mother, after all, is Lawrenceton’s premier real estate agent, giving Roe head starts on this new career. But at her first house showing, Roe discovers the naked corpse of a rival broker. It looks like there’s a cool killer at large, one who knows a great deal about real estate- and maybe too much about Roe.

The Julius House

Love at first sight turns into newlywed bliss for former librarian Aurora Teagarden-until violence cuts the honeymoon short. Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But both the house and Martin come with murky pasts. And when Roe is attacked by an ax-wielding maniac, she realizes that the secrets inside her four walls – and her brand-new marriage – could destroy her. ©1994 Charlaine Harris Schulz (P)2009 Reco

Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 5

Best-seller number five from Charlaine Harris’ beloved Aurora Teagarden series places the amateur sleuth directly in harm’s way. Detective Sergeant Jack Burns and Aurora never got along, and now Jack’s dead body has been dropped from a plane directly into Aurora’s back yard. Murder is personal this time for Aurora – but has she received a message, or a gruesome warning?

A Fool and His Honey: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 6

Family secrets step to the forefront in this dazzling mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris.

Aurora’s been around long enough to know that when a day starts out with your handyman going crazy in your front yard, it probably won’t get any better. Sure enough, when her husband’s niece shows up unexpectedly, drops off a baby, and disappears, Aurora is overwhelmed. And then the niece’s husband turns up dead, having met his demise at the end of an ax blade. To find her niece, Roe and Martin retrace her steps from sunny Georgia back to snowy Ohio, where they will uncover dark family secrets – at their own peril.

Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 7

When a Hollywood film crew descends on the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, part-time librarian Aurora Teagarden gets a behind-the-scenes look at moviemaking—and reprises her role as an amateur sleuth…

It’s been more than a year since her husband Martin’s death, and Roe Teagarden is still in mourning. All she wants is to be left alone to grieve—but that becomes impossible when a movie company arrives in Lawrenceton. They’ve come to make a film based on a book written by her onetime boyfriend Robin Crusoe, a book that detailed their shared investigation of a series of murders that occurred years before.

The locals are delighted. Roe is not. But Robin is just beginning to win her over when the lead actress—who is playing Roe—is killed. Once again, the two of them join forces to thwart a killer—without knowing that Roe herself is the next target…

Poppy Done to Death: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 8

Part-time librarian Aurora Teagarden is “a genuine steel magnolia” (Booklist) in bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s compelling mystery series. Now, Roe will have to use all of her Southern wiles to investigate a murder within her own family…

Not just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia, gets to be a member of the Uppity Women Book Club. But Roe’s stepsister-in-law Poppy has climbed her way up the waiting list of the group—only to die on the day she’s supposed to be inducted.

What makes Poppy’s murder even worse are the rumors of infidelity on both sides of the marriage swirling around town. To find the killer, Roe must determine if the sordid stories are true. Suspects abound, and the things she uncovers make her question her own heart, but her passion for the truth drives her on—into the path of the cold-blooded killer.

All the Little Liars

New York Times best seller Charlaine Harris returns to her Aurora Teagarden mystery series with a fabulous new book featuring the small-town Southern librarian.

Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids vanish from the school Soccer field in an afternoon. Aurora’s 15-year-old brother, Phillip, is one of them. Also gone are two of his friends and an 11-year-old girl who was just hoping to get a ride home from Soccer practice. And then there’s an even worse discovery – at the kids’ last known destination, a dead body.

While the local police and sheriff’s department comb the county for the missing kids and interview everyone even remotely involved, Aurora and her new husband, true-crime writer Robin Crusoe, begin their own investigation. Could the death and kidnappings have anything to do with a group of bullies at the middle school? Is Phillip’s disappearance related to Aurora’s father’s gambling debts? Or is Phillip himself, new to town and an unknown quantity, responsible for taking the other children?

But regardless of the reason, as the days go by, the most important questions remain. Are the kids still alive? Who could be concealing them? Where could they be? With Christmas approaching, Aurora is determined to find her brother – if he’s still alive.

Sleep Like a Baby

Number one New York Times best seller Charlaine Harris returns to her Aurora Teagarden mystery series with a fabulous new book featuring the small-town Southern librarian.

In the latest installment of the number one New York Times best-selling Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series, Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe’s mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu.

One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe’s brother Philip helps her search the house, and they happen upon a body outside. But it isn’t Virginia’s. Now, not only does she have a newborn to care for and a vulnerable new marriage to nurture, but Roe also has to contend with a new puzzle – who is this mystery woman dead in their backyard, and what happened to Virginia?

This heart-pounding and exciting next installment of the Aurora Teagarden series will leave fans happy and hungry for more.

About: Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris was born in the Mississippi Delta. Her father was a farmer and then a school principal, and her mother was a librarian. Charlaine was educated at public schools and attended Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

Two thousand twenty-one will mark Charlaine’s fortieth year as a published writer. She has written two stand-alones, and her series include the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, the Lily Bard mysteries, the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasies, the Harper Connelly urban fantasies, the Midnight, Texas novels, the Cemetery Girl graphic novels (with Christopher Golden), and the Gunnie Rose books, set in an alternate history America. Charlaine has also written many short stories, and together with Toni L.P. Kelner she edited seven themed anthologies (and had great fun).

The television series “True Blood” was based on Charlaine’s Sookie Stackhouse novels. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries is still showing a series of movies created about the Aurora Teagarden character, and for two seasons “Midnight, Texas” was on the air. Two of her other series are in production.

Charlaine belongs to several professional organizations and is an avid reader. She and her husband live on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River with their rescue dogs. Charlaine has the joy of being a grandmother, and she attends the Episcopalian church.