(Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 5)

I enjoyed this a bit better than the last Aurora Teagarden book. This series is easy to read although it is occasionally a bit flawed if you think about it too much. I have the next two or three of this series on hand and I think I'll read all of those...I'll decide then if I want to continue the series.

From Publishers Weekly
This uninspired addition to the Aurora Teagarden series (The Julius House, etc.) opens memorably with Lawrenceton, Ga.'s premiere librarian adjusting her lawn chair and observing Angel Youngblood, her bodyguard and all-around helper, cut the grass. From a plane that has been circling overhead drops the recently dead body of Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, Aurora's local law-enforcement nemesis. Aurora, or Roe as her friends call her, sets out to find out who killed him and why her garden was targeted for the corpse. As she conducts her unorthodox search, she has the nagging thought that perhaps the death has something to do with Angel or her husband, Shelby, or perhaps with her own husband, Martin, and his mysterious and dangerous past. She is not reassured when the FBI is called in, nor when several other murders are committed. In between visiting crime scenes and attending company banquets (the one-dimensional Martin is a bigshot exec), Roe also deals with the post-honeymoon letdown of her two-year-old marriage and ponders the strangely intimate relationship she has developed with her bodyguards. True Teagarden enthusiasts may feel rewarded by this latest episode, but Harris is a bit too down to earth this time out--the suspense barely cranks up before the solution descends with a thud not unlike that of Jack Burns's corpse.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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I'm taking this paperback from the ABC Bookbox. I enjoyed the first Aurora Teagarden book, Real Murders, and am interested to see how this compares. [I also liked the graveyard on the cover {grin}.]

Later: The first line of this one suggests the tone: "My bodyguard was mowing the yard wearing her pink bikini when the man fell from the sky." Hee!

The rest of the story doesn't quite live up to that, as more bizarre (and dangerous) things happen to people in Aurora's circle, and I admit I found the conclusion a bit... self-indulgent? Not that Aurora's a Mary Sue, exactly, but the whole thing just felt off to me. Perhaps my favorite parts of the story (other than that first line!) were the bits in the library, with actual day-to-day running-the-library issues, and when that trumps a potential serial killer there's something awry with the plot {wry grin}.

I plan to leave this book on a bench at the junction of Washington and Harvard streets at around 12:30 or so, when I stop by to grab a sandwich at Cutty's. Hope the finder enjoys the book!