Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden, #1) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Dec 07, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery

Not too many women can get poisoned chocolates, be interrogated by the police, and sell expensive properties in the same day.

Yep, it's a cozy!

I'm reading this to fulfill the "Goodreads Recommendation" category of the 2016 Around the Year reading challenge. That's a tricky category, because Goodreads only recommends books that aren't already on my TBR list. And, for the most part, if I'm interested in a book, then it's already in my TBR list. So it was tough for me to find a recommended book ...more

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Aug 27, 2009 Lydia Presley rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, mystery

Roe Teagarden is a single, upper-20's librarian living in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. She stumbles across a gruesome murder that resembles a speech she is going to give to her "Real Murders" club - a club dedicated toward discussing and researching murders that have happened in the past.

That alone had me excited about reading the book - what a unique idea for a club. I was instantly drawn in and, although busy over the last few days, read a chapter here and there as often as I had time to sit down ...more

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Jul 18, 2008 Jaime rated it really liked it

Shelves: cozy-mystery, read-2012

This is one of Charlaine Harris’s non-paranormal series, and I liked it quite a bit. Roe Teagarden is our mild-mannered librarian heroine – tiny, bespectacled, and unable to keep her nose out of other people’s business. Though when she’s the one to find the body of one of her fellow Real Murders Club members prior to a meeting, it’s hard to argue that it’s not her business too.

Through Roe, we meet her other true-crime-obsessed associates and try to figure out which one could possibly be the kill ...more

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