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Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris
Cover Artist: Judith Lagerman
Review by Gayle Surrette
Berkley Paperback  ISBN/ITEM#: 9780425218716
Date: 04 December 2007 List Price $7.99 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Article /

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden works as a librarian in her hometown of Lawrenceton, Georgia. She is also the building manager for the townhouse community she lives in that her mother owns. But, Roe has a passion -- it's crime. So, she's a member of Real Murder, a group that meets monthly to discuss a real murder and whether they believe the murderer was indeed caught or who the murderer could be. It's all interesting and harmless intellectual fun until someone starts to murder the members of Real Murders and setting up the scenes to match historical cases. Now it's a case of finding the murderer before he or she kills again.

From official release/information:

From back of book: The First Aurora Teagarden Mystery.
Lawrenceton, Geogia, may be a growing suburb of Atlanta, but it's still a small town at heart. Librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden grew up there and knows more than enough about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature.

With those fellow crime buffs, Roe belongs to a club called Read Murders, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime--until the night she finds a member dead, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And 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.

(Source: Berkley)

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