A bone to pick

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

A bone to pick

Author:

Harris, Charlaine.

ISBN:

9781440745928

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, ℗2010.

Physical Description:

5 audio discs (6 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Aurora Teagarden mysteries ;

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General Note:

Compact disc.

Title from container.

In container (17 cm.).

"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.

Summary:

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house and a fortune when a fellow Real Murders Club member dies. But things take a turn for the macabre when Roe discovers a human skull hidden in her new home's window seat.

Personal Subject:

Teagarden, Aurora (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Teagarden, Aurora (Fictitious character)

Subject(s):

Women librarians -- Fiction.

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Recorded Books, LLC.

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A Bone to Pick

Author Notes

Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi on November 25, 1951. She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She wrote poetry and plays before beginning to publish mysteries set in the American South. She is the author of the Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, the Lily Bard Mystery series, the Harper Connelly series, and the Sookie Stackhouse series. In 2001, the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead until Dark, won an Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. The series was adapted as a TV show on HBO called True Blood.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Aurora Teagarden, who made a strong series debut (in Real Murders ) as a southern librarian turned amateur sleuth, suddenly finds herself very rich when elderly spinster Jane Engle dies and leaves her a fortune. When Aurora goes to take possession of Miss Engle's home, she finds the place ransacked. Poking around, she turns up a ghoulish artifact the intruder missed: a bashed-in human skull hidden in a cleverly disguised window seat. Fearing that her mild benefactor was actually a vicious killer, Aurora is relieved to find a note the deceased left behind pointing her suspicions elsewhere. She delves into the lives of her new neighbors, masking her scrutiny with Southern charm, and discovers that over the years two men have disappeared from the neighborhood. Harris provides some genuinely funny scenes as Aurora breezily unravels the murderer's identity, but the plot is just too farfetched, even when supported by an appealing cast of Southern gothic characters. Harris, who struck the right note in Real Murders , here unfortunately goes beyond the humorous social satire that is her metier, striving for a wildly exaggerated parody of southern life. But with three solid novels behind her, this talented mystery writer will surely regain her focus the next time out. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Aurora Teagarden, the author's sweet, southern heroine (Real Murders, etc.), having lost her policeman lover Arthur to another, finds comfort in the substantial legacy willed her by Jane Engle- -even as she wonders at the strangeness of it, since they weren't close friends. Jane's small house is part of the legacy, and--in the aftermath of a break-in there--Aurora finds a skull hidden in a camouflaged window seat. The skull's identity and how it ended up in Jane's house comprise a puzzle that languishes until the final chapters...as Aurora relates details of her chatty encounters with friends and neighbors; shopping expeditions; dates with the local minister and getting-to-know-you sessions with Jane's pregnant cat Madeleine. A breezily written, harmless but insipid non-happening.

Booklist Review

Aurora (Roe) Teagarden--whose Real Murders (Walker, 1990) won Harris an Agatha Award nomination--is in the middle of what seems to be the worst year of her twentysomething life. By June, she's attended one funeral and three weddings, including her mother's second marriage and her erstwhile boyfriend's trip down the aisle with a (rather pregnant) associate from the Lawrenceton police force. Then Roe is astonished to learn that she's inherited a home and more than a half million dollars from the deceased, a retired school librarian (suspension of disbelief required here!) whom she knew through shared interest in fictional and factual crime. There is, inevitably, a hitch: the unexpected legacy includes a skull of unknown origin. Despite distractions--like quitting her reduced-time public library job, beginning a new romance, and assisting at the births of four kittens and a baby girl--the persistent Ms. Teagarden discovers the skull's provenance and brings a killer to justice. A light, entertaining read for cozy fans. ~--Mary Carroll