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    Real Murders
    Real Murders
    Real Murders
    Audiobook6 hours

    Real Murders

    Written by Charlaine Harris

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer

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    About this audiobook

    The New York Times best-selling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels launches another acclaimed series with this mystery. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden and the members of the Real Murders Club meet monthly to analyze famous cases. But when a member dies in a manner resembling a case the group was discussing, suddenly everybody is both a suspect and a potential victim. "An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood ."-Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 4, 2009
    ISBN9781440790447
    Real Murders
    Author

    Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. She has written four series, and two stand-alone novels, in addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and graphic novels (cowritten with Christopher Golden). Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many bestseller lists. They’re also the basis of the HBO series True Blood. Harris now lives in Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.

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    • 2/5
      This book really just fell flat for me. It seemed like it was trying to recreate the small town atmosphere of the Southern vampire series, but the characters and the concept was just not interesting enough. And Aurora Teagarden is simply not very interesting.

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    • 5/5
      Think Sookie Stackhouse without the supernatural. Nice little, cosy mystery. Affable characters, not too violent (just a little, in the description of the murder victims), and Roe is courted by two good-looking guys. So hopefully more to come in the next volume about this love triangle. Nice, quick read for the weekend.
    • 4/5
      Librarian Aurora Teagarden and her friends, who share an interest in true crime, have formed a club called Real Murders. They meet to discuss – what else? – real murders. It’s innocent fun until one member is found dead just before Roe is scheduled to make a presentation to the group on the murder of Julia Wallace. And Mamie Wright’s murder appears to be mimicking Ms. Wallace’s by her husband. Soon more victims are littering the landscape ofLawrenceton, Georgia. Real Murders members are suspects … and could become victims. Although Real Murders has many of the elements of a cozy mystery, the deaths are a bit grisly for the book to qualify as lighthearted fare. I liked it anyway and I believe all but the most sensitive cozy readers will, too. Aurora is a sweet and self-effacing heroine -- and the other denizens of Lawrenceton are great cozy characters. I especially like Roe’s mother Aida, who is perfectly prickly. Real Murders has a slight romantic angle, but even I (not usually a fan of romance in mysteries) didn’t feel it took too much away from the mystery. Real Murders is the first of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, published in 1990. Berkley Prime Crime is reissuing them in mass-market paperback so a new crop of readers can enjoy all six. It was a treat for me to re-read Real Murders, and I think other “old” fans will feel the same way.Charlaine Harris, with several successful series under her belt, is one of the mystery field’s most popular and best selling authors. After reading Real Murders again it’s easy to see why. By Diana. First published in the Cozy Library March 3, 2008. Review based on publisher- or author-provided review copy.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun mystery centered around a character named Aurora Teagarden. Aurora is a librarian in a club called Real Murders, where a group of people get together once a month to discuss famous old murders. Before one meeting, one of their members is found murdered in the same style as the murder they were set to discuss that night. Soon, other club members and people in their community are found dead in ways that mirror other famous murders.Lots of good fun and a very easy read!
    • 2/5
      Pretty good mystery... characters not as colorful as her Sookie Stackhouse series.
    • 4/5
      I read this book for a RL book group. I am not a big fan of cozies, they just seem too light and fluffy and this one was no different. I can deal with light and fluffy occasionally if there is something else going on: humor, oddness, local setting. This book had nothing extra for me. I also found the writing to be unsophisticated, and the main character to be a limp noodle. That said, it did grow on me as the book progressed. I have 3 other books in the series to read, but I probably won't keep reading after that.The main character Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden is a short, nondescript person who is a librarian in a public library in a small southern town outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She is a bland and uninspiring character. She also manages her mother's condo complex where she lives. Roe belongs to a group called Real Murders. They are true crime buffs who meet each month and take turns presenting information about crimes, psychology, police work, etc...Roe is supposed to present the 'Wallace' murder, at the next meeting. It turns out one of the members is murdered, and in the manner of the 'Wallace' murder. The story follows the detection of this killing, and the new ones that take place, or are attempted. Other people in town are killed and group members and others are implicated when murder weapons are found in their possession. The other murders are also copies of older crimes.Besides the murders the story follows Roe's bland personal life, her working at the library and her interaction with her mother and the tenants she lives near. Roe needs to find a man and we have to deal with her attempts to date 2 men that appear on her romantic radar. All very insipid.If I had to describe this book it would be beige. There is little passion, color or excitement. There has to be a balance between over the top and not having a pulse. What does save the book is towards the end where Roe's 6 year old half-brother makes an appearance and provokes real feeling from the characters. There are several red herrings and the guilty are a bit of a surprise, though looking back there were subtle clues.A quick read, that has blank pages between the chapters to pad out the page count.
    • 4/5
      This was a fast and enjoyable read. Roe is a great character and the mystery element of the novel worked really well. 'm looking forward to reading other books in the series, although I doubt that they'll resurrect the Real Murders Club.
    • 3/5
      I could tell that Harris wrote "Aurora Teagarden" mysteries well before "Sookie Stackhouse" fantasies. This first book read very fast and I have a feeling this might have been one of her beginning books. Nevertheless it captured my attention, I love "Roe" as a character and can not wait to finish the rest of the series. I was also happy that if she did write it a long time ago, nothing was changed for the republished edition.
    • 4/5
      Reading REAL MURDERS hard on the heels of finishing DEADLOCKED, I am overwhelmed by how much Sookie and Aurora have in common. Aurora is definitely a bit more of a firecracker (quicker to take offense or speak her mind), but she shares the sweet practicality that makes Sookie so much fun to read. I had forgotten who the perpetrator was, absolutely chilling. As I recall, Harris did a good job carrying the fall out of these events into book two, as well as keeping Aurora's love life lively... of course, re-reading is the best way to know for sure. Onward to book two!
    • 4/5
      Aurora Teagarden, a librarian by day, belongs to a group of mystery aficionados known as the Real Murder club. Every month, members meet and take turns analyzing old mysteries, either real or fictional, looking at victims, murder weapons, who-dunnit, etc. When actual murders begin occurring in the town, and each murder seems to be a copy-cat of a murder previously happening someplace else, attention turns to the members of the club. Is one of them purposely acting out murders they've studied? After an attempt on Aurora (or was her mother the intended victim?) and several other strange 'clues' begin appearing, "Roe" starts to feel she may be the target. In addition to the murder aspect, Roe finds herself juggling two different romantic interests in the person of author/professor Robin Crusoe and detective Arthur Smith, who also happens to belong to the Real Murders group. The surprising climax was one that pre-disposes the reader to look for more. There are nine altogether, so I know there are more fun adventures that I can reach for when I want a good mystery, with little violence, some interesting but fairly innocent romance, and a feel-good ending.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this first installment in the Aurora Teagarden series. Although I've read other mysteries where the protagonist is a librarian, I appreciated the twist that Aurora "Roe" was a member of a local club (called Real Murders) that met monthly to discuss famous true crimes in history. As it happens, the murders in this story were patterned after "true crimes," which had an inpact on the club, to say the least! Although the local "Real Murders" Club disbanded during the murder investigations, I wonder if it reappears in future books in this series.

      I was surprised by who the killers were, and enjoyed the ending. It was a good read on a holiday weekend!
    • 2/5
      Aurora (Roe) Teagarden is a 28-year-old librarian in a Lawrenceton, Georgia. She belongs to a club called Real Murders, twelve people who meet once a month to talk about famous murder cases from the past. But on a night when it is her turn to present, she finds a fellow club member dead, killed in a manner eerily resembling the Wallace case, the subject of Roe’s presentation. It appears obvious that the murderer must be one of the club members. Roe tries to figure out who it is, and finds some romance along the way.Two things have really hampered my enjoyment of Real Murders. One is the odd linguistic choices. The other is Roe herself.1) Strange language. One character’s eyes are constantly referred to as “tan.” Eyebrows have an unnerving tendency to fly all over people’s faces. There are “disk drives” instead of diskettes next to a computer. Magazines spill out like a trail of slime. You get the idea.2) Roe. I just could not warm up to Aurora Teagarden in this book (liked her a lot more in Three Bedrooms, One Corpse). She seemed too condescending and self-centered, preferring to focus on the faults of those around her, rather than their good qualities. I could totally be projecting, too :PI am glad I read Three Bedrooms, One Corpse first, because had I started with Real Murders, I am not sure I would have wanted to read the rest of the Aurora Teagarden series. This is an early Charlaine Harris book, and it definitely shows. She has grown as a writer tremendously in the past 20 years, and that’s wonderful to see.
    • 4/5
      First in Charlaine Harris's Aurora Teagarden amateur sleuth mysteries. I read it oujt of order, having read the 2nd-4th one and not getting the first until later. Roe is a librarian in a small town in Georgia that is becoming more of a suburb of Atlanta yet still has that small town feel. Her mother is a successful real estate businesswoman. roe belongs to Real Murders, a club that meets monthly to discuss true crime. Soon someone is murdering people and copying old true crime cases.The series is a fairly standard amateur detective series, but stands out from many simply because Harris is such a good author who creates believable characters. Her other two series are more exotic (Sookie Stackhouse and Harper Connelly), but this one works well too and she continues to publish a Roe book regularly.
    • 5/5
      This was my very first cozy mystery series and I loved it and it brought me to be crazy about them. I’m so happy to be revisiting this series.
    • 5/5
      Great start to a great series. Roe is really an enjoyable character. The idea of a librairian as an amateur sleuth is wonderful. Roe is a member of real murders club. Members are fascinated by murders throughout history. But they all get a shock when the body of one of the members is found dead, and not only dead, but killed in the manner of a famous murder. Because of the nature of their club everyone is a suspect. Not only that, they are considered to be morbid and perhaps a little crazy. Roe involves herself in the investigation. Real murders is classified as a Cozy, but maybe a cozy with a bite!
    • 4/5
      Similar to Harris' other books, but without any paranormal elements. The heroine, Aurora, is pretty upbeat & interesting. She's 28, unmarried & has an odd hobby - she's a member of a club that discusses old murders. When club members start dying, she recognizes they're reenactments of old crimes & tells the police so. They don't believe her, so she is forced into figuring out who the killer is herself, but she doesn't jump into it with both feet. Very believable the way she stumbles around & interacts with others in her small town.It won't ever be my favorite book, but for a relaxing read, it's pretty good.
    • 4/5
      I liked this much more than I expected to, basing my preconceptions on Sookie Stackhouse, who is admittedly just not for me. Charlaine Harris has created a thoroughly likeable character who deals with entirely human monsters. I admit to being addicted to cozy murder mysteries since I read my first Miss Marple (Murder at the Vicarage) in junior high, and this is, at its core, an almost classic cozy, differing only in the craziness portion of the motive. I will definitely be hunting down the rest of the Aurora Teagarden books.
    • 4/5
      Just about everyone has seen on television those shows where they recreate events such as the Jack the Ripper murders trying to decide who was involved and what really happened. The producers take all kinds of sensational murders and try to show the viewers exactly how they believe the events took place. Well, in this book, Aurora Teagarden, the assistant librarian of Laurenceton, Georgia, and a small group take detailed looks at well-known murders. As the book opens, Aurora (ROE) finds one of their members dead but the staging of the body appears exactly the same as a murder that they are about to discuss.The police are not particularly interested in the theory of someone copying the ancient murder, but when 3 other people are killed with connections/details replicating other renowned murders, the town starts to get a bit antsy and want the killer caught.Through the book Roe is central because she either finds the body, finds the weapon, or arrives at the scene immediately after the event, not forgetting that they all seem to take place in her neighborhood.I was really taken with this book. The characters, quirky names aside, definitely could be better developed but since this is the first in the series, there is time for the that. What seem to me the most realistic was that Roe is not the most "interesting" person on earth. She doesn't have much of a social life so when two men start showing interest, she doesn't know what to do. This little bit of romance helped to cool the dra.ma of the murders as they were happening. Definitely look for the next.
    • 5/5
      Fun book, love the heroine. I'm completely addicted!
    • 4/5
      I picked this up because I've totally adored Harris' Southern Vampire series and I figure anything she writes has got to be good. Real Murders does have a lot of the qualities that I love in the Southern Vampire series - a sense of place, a way of incorporating the quotidien, really perceptive one-liners that somehow manage to describe a character in a complex and subtle way. The small-town setting, the way she writes about people and manages to make them utterly normal while also extraordinary and fascinating is another similarity between the two series.

      This book is more of a whodunit and it's got a fabulous premise: the Real Murders club is for people who are interested in true crime and get together to learn about various murders of the past together; then people start dying in ways that are obviously intended to re-create famous murders of the past...leading to the conclusion that the murderer happens to be a member of the club.

      I don't think that the execution is nearly as good as the hook, however; maybe I don't read enough mystery novels, but I wasn't spotting the clues. The murderer seemed to remain a mystery for most of the novel because there were good reasons to suspect almost everyone and no reason to suspect one person more than another.

      That being said, I still thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone else.
    • 3/5
      A chatty "cozy" murder mystery set in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. It is a slow starter, although the story is a good one (even if it is a serial killer one, which I try to avoid). There's way too many characters who clutter the story-telling, and they are inter-related which I found difficult to keep track of. The best thing is the surprise ending! The main character is forgettable, yet the author managed to create a series of mysteries with her. Perhaps one of the others in the series will be a better read. This one is OK, but nothing special.
    • 3/5
      A club that reviewed and discussed old real murder crimes was the setting of the first real murder that could be connected to the group. Finding the body and knowing the need to cooperate with the police, Aurora ’Roe’ Teagarden as well as the rest of the clubs members endured the scrutiny of the investigation process. Then there was more murders, the realization that the current murders imitated the older murders left everyone in the Real Murder club either a victim or a suspect.This is an introduction to Roe Teagarden and the Real Murder club members. There are so many characters and some of them are not fully developed yet but a great start for this as a series. I was surprised by the ending and the ’who done it’ part, there are several suspects and several hints or clues that were misleading as well as a few that were not. A quick and easy read, a mellow suspense and not too graphic with the crime scenes.
    • 3/5
      Sooo much discussion about what clothes to wear while solving a murder.
    • 4/5
      This was a very satisfying start to this cozy mystery series. It originally came out in the early 90s, and surprisingly many of the earlier titles are already out of print. Hopefully, with Ms. Harris becoming more popular, some of these older titles will be re-released. I actually had to pay over $10 apiece for mass market paperback copies of books 4 and 5, and I've seen them go for a lot more.Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is a librarian in a Lawrenceton, Georgia, a small town outside a big city. (I assume Atlanta, but Harris doesn't specify precisely.) Once a month, a few crime buffs from town get together to discuss some of the most famous murderers of the past. They call their group Real Murders and on the night Roe is scheduled to discuss the Wallace case—which took place back in 1931 England—one of the members of Real Murders, Mamie Wright, is found murdered in exactly the same way Julia Wallace was so many years ago! And that's not the end of it either... apparently, there's a murderer on the loose, whose game is to pattern his crimes after some of the very murders they've been discussing. So obviously, they all figure it's got to be someone in their little group!Harris does character development quite nicely and as you're introduced to all the characters, you can clearly see them in your mind, and often think of someone you know who fits a similar description. Who is behind all the murders happening in the small town is a surprise right up until the very end. And in typical cozy fashion, the members of the community most affected by all this are just as important as the police—one of whom is actually a member of Real Murders anyway—in solving the case.I look forward to reading the rest of the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries!
    • 3/5
      Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, librarian, is also, in her free time, a member of the Real Murders club, which meets up every month to discuss famous murders of the past. When one of the club members is found dead, Roe and the other "Real Murderers" immediately notice that the killer reenacted the exact case Roe was to present that night, and they understand that the murderer is undoubtedly one of them. Roe soon finds herself implicated in a series of copycat murders, all of them targetting members of Real Murders, and doesn't know whom to trust anymore. I read this in one sitting and I have to give it credit for entertainment value. This was a very light, quick and easy read, that didn't keep me on the edge of my seat but never bored me either. Roe is an engaging character who is very easy to relate to, and characterization in general is well done. Charlaine Harris is definitely a good writer for this kind of book. I did find the inevitable romantic dilemma somewhat irritating and vaguely unrealistic, and found myself wishing Roe would just make up her goddamned mind about her two love interests, but I have to admit it wasn't handled quite as badly as it usually is. Not my usual type of book, and definitely not thought provoking in any way, but I will take this any day over sparkly vampires.
    • 4/5
      Summary from Goodreads:"Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member 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."My Thoughts:Real Murders was an interesting beginning to this cozy mystery series and I'm looking forward to reading more! I've been wanting to begin this series every since I finished the last book in the Harper Connelly series (which I loved) by this same author. I'm happy to say that I wasn't disappointed in the least by this book and actually enjoyed it quite a lot. "Roe" is a part of a club that analyzes serial killers from the past. Unfortunately, one of the members of the club is found dead and soon it becomes very apparent that one of those same members must be the killer. Roe was such a great main character for a variety of reasons. She's a librarian for one which instantly made me like her ;) But she is also a character that is growing into herself. She starts off the book as a quieter, shy type of girl and by the end of the book she is really beginning to realize all of the possibilities that she has in front of her. I liked seeing the growth of her character throughout the story and I am looking forward to seeing it continue in future books. The mystery was a good whodunnit and for a cozy it was surprisingly grislier than I would have thought. It kept me hooked though as I tried to figure out who the killer could be. And let me tell you that I was nowhere close to being right...the ending took me by complete surprise!This book ended up to a surprisingly good read, and this is a series that I will be continuing on with. Yes...another series (sometimes I wonder what I am thinking with ALL of these series). But I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of trouble Roe manages to get herself into next. Recommended to fans of cozy mysteries!Bottom Line: A fun read that kept me guessing!Disclosure: Another lovely book checked out from my local library :)
    • 3/5
      The premise of this book is that a club of people meet to discuss real murders, whodunit and why? Then at one meeting, Aurora Teagarden finds the body of one of the members. She has been murdered apparently to copycat the murder the club was going to discuss that very night. Onward the story goes, the trail of bodies getting bloodier. There seems to be no doubt to anyone that one of the members of the club is the murderer. The plot of 'Real Murders' is excellent. Aurora is sort of bland, at least in this first installment. I didn't find myself feeling one way or another towards her, except I thought it was cute when she would notice how odd it was that she suddenly had the attention of not one, but two men, after years of being single. I admit I had my pick of who the murderer was about half way through and I was suprised to find out that I was wrong. I always enjoy a mystery with a suprises ending. To summarize, this was a good, not a great book. I can't really put my finger on what it is that kept this book from being less than stellar in my eyes. Maybe I just expected it to be more. "Real Murders" was worth the money, and brief amount of time it took for me to read it.
    • 3/5
      Title: Real MurdersAuthor: Charlaine HarrisGenre: Cozy, Murder Mystery, Romance# of pages: 175Start date:?End date:3/31Borrowed/bought: borrowedMy rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: CDescription of the book: Aurora Teagarden, a librarian in a small southern town. Roe is part of a group call Real Murders, a discussion club about real murderers. We soon see her fellow clubgoers die in similar manners to murders discussed by the group.Review: Well, I was excited that this was going to be a series about a librarian solving murders but it turned out that the storyline had almost nothing to do with being a librarian. In fact, they could have left that part out and it wouldn't really have made a difference in the story, in my opinion. That part kind of disappointed me. I too found the main character a bit bland. I will read a few more of the series before I give it a final judgment though.
    • 4/5
      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 killer. We also get a little bit of a love triangle, as Roe finds herself attracted to not only the detective assigned to the case, but her new neighbor, a crime novelist. In true cozy mystery fashion, the characters in Lawrenceton are quite colorful.Definitely a series I will be continuing.
    • 4/5
      The best book in the series. I thought the murders were creative and the characters engaging.