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Real Murders

An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1

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Real Murders

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
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Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side - and its crime buffs. One of them is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime - until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss.

As other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects - or potential victims.

©1992 Charlaine Harris (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC Amateur Sleuths Cosy Mystery Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths
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"An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying....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." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Honestly i came from trueblood and the harper Connelly mysyeries, and A. T. is nothing like that. Googling later i found that it was turned into a tv series (every characyer obviously adjusted for looks) suitably for Hallmark.

I couldn't warm to the readerThe story is *solid*

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The novel in and by itself is not as good as Harris' Sookie-Stackhouse-series but ok. The reader of this edition, though, almost ruins the story.

She constantly over-stresses even the most meaningless of words so the reader has no way to gauge the tension-level the situation is actually supposed to convey. The voices she gives different characters are either indiscernable or overacted.

an OK mystery read badly

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First of all: I really like the narrator!
The story is good and, although containing quite some gruesome and violent murders, creates feelgood vibes.
Don’t expect anything like True Blood - no supernatural powers, no vampires, no magic, just Southern people.

Nice cosy crime

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This story is all right. The Aurora Teagarden Stories start beeing really good from the second book on.

First book of a great series

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