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Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries #3)
Third in the Aurora Teagarden series, one great new look.
Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who k...more
Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who k...more
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Published
March 4th 2008
by Berkley
(first published March 23rd 1994)
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You know, I was all into this book... But the whole time, I am wondering, what the HELL happened to Robin?? In the last book in the series, Roe contemplated writing him a letter while he was in another country, telling him she was interested in seeing him again. But we never know if she did or not, cause the writer never said!! And she was dating the preacher at the time.
Then, she meets a woman who will be perfect for the preacher, and just GIVES UP? And then assumes he's going to kno...more
Then, she meets a woman who will be perfect for the preacher, and just GIVES UP? And then assumes he's going to kno...more
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I have not really thought much of this series and this is the highest rating I have given any of the first three books. This book is a DEFINITE improvement on the first two. The mystery is a lot more interesting, the writing is a lot crisper and the addition of Martin is so welcomed. After pairing Roe with incredibly dull men, Harris has finally created a character who is enigmatic, interesting and is the definite highlight of the series. I am intrigued to keep reading now to see where she takes...more
As you (probably now) know, I've been having a great time getting stuck into this series. I really enjoyed the first and second books, and have become very fond of Roe. As well as her town of Lawrenceton, and the strange mix of people who seem to have so many secrets.
Since Roe quit her job at the library, she's got a bit of spare time on her hands, so she decides to hang around Select Realty, which happens to be her mother's business. She wants to see if she likes it, and maybe then ...more
Since Roe quit her job at the library, she's got a bit of spare time on her hands, so she decides to hang around Select Realty, which happens to be her mother's business. She wants to see if she likes it, and maybe then ...more
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Trying to help her mother, Aurora ‘Roe’ Teagarden met the Bartells (Martin and his sister Barbara) to show them the Anderton house. During the process of showing them the house, the body of another local realtor (Tonia Lee Greenhouse) was discovered. Having a fascination with true crimes, Roe started her own investigation into who would have and who could have killed this woman. While the realtors dealt with the lose of one of their own, Roe and Martin, became closer.
This book is short...more
This book is short...more
With her recent inheritance of a home and a fortune, Roe Teagarden has had an opportunity to change careers. With recent staffing cuts at the local library meant her hours being limited to just part-time. She wants something more and figured it would be natural to follow in her mother's footsteps in real estate and goes into a pseudo-apprenticeship.
With her mother running behind schedule Roe, meets up with a wealthy gentleman named Martin Bartell and his sister, both looking to move ...more
With her mother running behind schedule Roe, meets up with a wealthy gentleman named Martin Bartell and his sister, both looking to move ...more
Aurora Teagarden--Roe--is now a lady of leisure. After inheriting her friend Jane's estate, Roe quit her job as a librarian and has been dabbling in real estate. But wouldn't you know it--the first time she shows a house on her own she has an electric meeting with a mysterious man and she discovers a dead body. What's up with that?
Lawrenceton, Georgia, a suburb of the rapidly encroaching Atlanta, is a hotbed of murder and intrigue. But what small town in America isn't? Roe is a ...more
Lawrenceton, Georgia, a suburb of the rapidly encroaching Atlanta, is a hotbed of murder and intrigue. But what small town in America isn't? Roe is a ...more
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Former librarian Aurora Teagarden is helping her mother Aida, a busy real estate agent in Lawrenceton, Georgia. While showing a house, Aurora discovers the naked corpse of a rival realtor in the master bedroom. Somewhat shaken up but determined to investigate the crime, Aurora and her mom determine the crime must have been done by another real estate agent who had access to the key file in Aida's office. When the body of another realtor is found in another vacant house for sale, Aurora's distr...more
I honestly don't know if the earlier Aurora Teagarden mysteries were as bad as this, because I listened to them on audio, and I read a physical copy of this one. Still, I suspect I would have a lot of the same complaints.
There's a love interest introduced in this book who Aurora attaches onto rather quickly, and I never understood why. She talks to her mother and best-friend-from-afar about how much she likes him, but the conversations sounded more like Roe trying to talk herself i...more
There's a love interest introduced in this book who Aurora attaches onto rather quickly, and I never understood why. She talks to her mother and best-friend-from-afar about how much she likes him, but the conversations sounded more like Roe trying to talk herself i...more
Truly horrible writing. The characters were under-developed, the "romance" contrived and implausible. There was no suspense and the story was filled with unnecessary details and minutiae of the protagonist's daily life. Did taking the cat to the vet really warrant mentioning? And how many times does the author need to describe the protagonist's mother as being Lauren Bacall-like? Certainly not as many as she has between this and the book prior to this one in the series.
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Roe's mom is a wheeler-dealer real estate broker, and Roe is roped into joinng the company. She's studying for her realtor's license and shadowing her mother at work. One day when Mom gets caught at a settlement that is running late, she instructs Roe (who quit her part-time job after inheriting an acquaintance's quite vast fortune) to go open the house for an appointment. Of course when she opens the doors to the master suite, Roe and the prospective buyers discover a dead body--an agent fro...more
No he podido evitar la tentación de seguir leyendo esta saga y es que la pequeña Roe me encanta y me parece un personaje muy carismático.
En esta tercera entrega Aurora comienza a seguir los pasos de su madre como agente inmobiliario y su primera tarea es enseñar una enorme casa a un hombre nuevo en el pueblo, Martin, y su hermana, Barbara. Hasta aquí todo parece normal y la casa preciosa pero en el momento de enseñar una de las últimas estancias, se encuentran un cadáver, una de las...more
En esta tercera entrega Aurora comienza a seguir los pasos de su madre como agente inmobiliario y su primera tarea es enseñar una enorme casa a un hombre nuevo en el pueblo, Martin, y su hermana, Barbara. Hasta aquí todo parece normal y la casa preciosa pero en el momento de enseñar una de las últimas estancias, se encuentran un cadáver, una de las...more
My ratings system is as follows. One star is GOOD. The book is entertaining, easy to read and you don't want to stop reading because something about the book is compelling you not to. Two stars is GREAT! This time the story is not only entertaining, but highly creative, unique, easy to read and hard to put down. Three stars is EXCELLENT. Here the book has all aspects of one and two stars, but now the book is thought and emotionally provoking. Four is AWESOME. This is the read that is not onl...more
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In 'Three Bedrooms, One Corpse' Aurora begins working at her mother's real estate firm, and stumbles across the body of a fellow Realtor during her first house viewing. When another Realtor is found dead during a viewing, and her new love interest is placed under suspicion, Roe begins to investigate the world of real estate and the employees of the local firms, including the one owned by her mother.
Better than book two, that's for sure! Finally, Roe finds a man who is enigmatic and se...more
Better than book two, that's for sure! Finally, Roe finds a man who is enigmatic and se...more
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I just love Roe and read each book as fast as I could. Each one was great and all were great together. Too bad Harris started making more money on the 'Snookie' series because Aurora Teagarden was such a great character. I miss her and wish she would come back for a few more experiences...no question that she did evolve but I think Harris could find more challenges and danger for Roe. Shoot, Roe might be forever gone so in a couple of years, I'm just going to have to re-read her from the beg...more
A fun, light diversion - picked this one up from a stack in the office when I had nothing else handy to read. Pretty good murder mystery, but just proves Charlaine Harris has a character she can't resist. Aurora Teagarden is just another spin on the Sookie Stackhouse character - smart woman who undersells her own self-worth and intelligence, diminutive but busty, alluring to men with power, drawn to life-threatening situations that almost get her killed... Had the mystery part of this one not ...more
Aurora Teagarden is in the middle of a murder investigation again! This time she finds a body of a saleswoman in a house she is showing to an enigmatic and sexy client.
I think I like this book more than the previous ones because it seems Charlaine Harris has finally found that little something that makes books addictive. And this "something" is certainly sexual attraction between her characters. She did a great job describing intereactions between Roe and Martin in this bo...more
I think I like this book more than the previous ones because it seems Charlaine Harris has finally found that little something that makes books addictive. And this "something" is certainly sexual attraction between her characters. She did a great job describing intereactions between Roe and Martin in this bo...more
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If you're looking for a suspenseful mystery novel, look somewhere else. This is a pleasant read, with your standard whodunit, and a little romance thrown in. It's a pleasant enough book (and certainly well-written!) it is not worth staying up another hour to see who the killer is.
I am a fan of Charlaine Harris's writing, having read all the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and the Harper Connelly series are some of my favorites. (I even got met Mrs. Harris when she was in Portland last month, an...more
I am a fan of Charlaine Harris's writing, having read all the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and the Harper Connelly series are some of my favorites. (I even got met Mrs. Harris when she was in Portland last month, an...more
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Are the heroines in mystery books always THIS STUPID? Because I'm smart but not like genius smart, and compared to me, Roe is a dumb-bum. At least that's how I felt by the end of this book.
Seriously DO NOT CHASE DANGER. DO NOT BREAK INTO A MURDERERS HOUSE. CALL THE DAMN POLICE!
Also this book made me feel like I'd been banished to adverb hell for awhile. The dialogue tags almost always had an adverb to explain further what the words meant (because apparently understand...more
Seriously DO NOT CHASE DANGER. DO NOT BREAK INTO A MURDERERS HOUSE. CALL THE DAMN POLICE!
Also this book made me feel like I'd been banished to adverb hell for awhile. The dialogue tags almost always had an adverb to explain further what the words meant (because apparently understand...more
This is the third book in the series and Aurora's mother would like her to consider working in her real estate office. The first house she takes someone into has a dead body of a Realtor in the master bedroom. Soon it becomes apparent that someone is killing Realtor. There is another problem too. Someone is stealing from the houses that are being shown and Aurora thinks the two things are connected.
On the personal front, Aurora has met a new man and there seems to be great chemis...more
On the personal front, Aurora has met a new man and there seems to be great chemis...more
Finally a 'cozy' mystery with mostly the right balance of elements--small town, recurring characters, small-motive (rather than drug-cartel-etc. motive) murders. And I enjoyed the romance aspect of it. Still, I had to skip the final confrontation with the murderer (oh, come on, that's not a spoiler--there's *always* a final confrontation with the murderer) due to the level of violence involved. The rest wasn't very violent at all, however, and quite a lot of the book wasn't even about the murder...more
The more I read of Charlaine Harris's books, the more I learn about life in small towns, and this book is no exception. I wish the seeding had been a little more blatant this time, since it felt very Agatha-Christie-like (and the scene at the realty conference as well as what Roe did after that was writer-pushing-story instead of character-pushing-story, IMHO), but I will make allowances.
Point-of-note: Aurora Teagarden has far too many beaus for this to be realistic in any way, shap...more
Point-of-note: Aurora Teagarden has far too many beaus for this to be realistic in any way, shap...more
Starting a series at book 3 does can put the reader at a disadvantage and I got the impression that I might have liked the characters more if I had started from the beginning. Aurora "Ro" Teagarden is a big fan of true crime and has the nasty habit of finding them as well. In this case, while showing a house to perspective buyers, they come across the corpse of another realtor. If this had been the main story, it would have been fine but Ro and the gentleman she is showing the house to...more
I can't wait to read #4 in this series -- the turns in Roe's life are really heating up, and I am hoping that one of the new character's sticks around for more than one book. Her male companions are always interesting, but I can't help but feel she's cycling through them a little quickly!
I did figure out "whodunnit" in this book, but not until quite late in the game. I was a bit surprised that our intelligent narrator would put herself into so much danger - hopefully th...more
I did figure out "whodunnit" in this book, but not until quite late in the game. I was a bit surprised that our intelligent narrator would put herself into so much danger - hopefully th...more
I enjoy the Aurura books...she reminds me a lot of Lily from Harris's Lily Bard series...always managing to find a way to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and geting caught up in murder mysteries. I read that another reviewer referred to these books as "popcorn" and I like that term. The plot is interesting and not a giveaway but, at the same time, it wasn't overly serious. I like that Aurora is trying to decide what she wants to do and only hope Harris doesn't let her become...more
This is a cute little series. I love that it features a small town and is set in the south. I also appreciate Harris's keep-you-guessing style and the way she sometimes inject humor into the stories. That said, this book more than the others left me with many "what were you thinking" moments where I couldn't fathom why any person--even fictional characters in a mystery series--would behave the way they did in this book. In particular, I think the author missed the mark with the new rom...more
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