Real Murders

An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side - and its crime buffs. One of them 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.

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.

©1992 Charlaine Harris (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying....Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray." ( Publishers Weekly)

Good mystery!

Great surprise to meet an early Arthur Smith from the Midnight Series in this story. Looking forward to the next Teagarden book. I'm anxious to find out if the Murder Club is really disbanded. Never suspected the culprit, maybe because there were so many that could have done the deeds. Great narration.

Good easy read

I listen as I work and manage to stay engaged. The characters each have their voice so the story flows well.

Meh

It was a little hard getting into this read, it was an average story. I'm hoping the 2nd book in the series will be better

interesting

I was guessing who done it until the very end. A very satisfying little mystery with hints of humor.

Good performance but I’m bored.

I just didn’t find the story gripping. I like Ro, I like the characters, but it just feels kind of surface. I’m comparing it to the Sookie Stackhouse novels though so, I’m my opinion, I’m setting it up for failure as that is my favorite book series.

Forgot to go to bed!

I really enjoy Charlaine Harris as a writer but wasn't sure about how she would do with a straightforward murder mystery, which is how I would classify this book. Turns out I could not go to bed till I found out how it ended. The murderer is not who I thought it was...

Liked it mostly, but turned off by one part

Any additional comments?

At first I was really into this book. It is about a group of people who had a club where they discussed real murder cases, and it starts where one member gets murdered in the style of the case they were gonna discuss that night. I like the premise and I thought it was interesting, but I got turned off when a nice old couple got hacked up (off screen thankfully). Just crossed the line of good fun in a murder mystery in my opinion. But I did finish it. Not sure the outcome was 100% convincing either but the author at least made a point of mentioning that sometimes serial killers seem like ordinary people to people who know them casually. Will continue the series to see what happens with the characters, but serial killers are really not for me.

Loved it!

Very well written. Tasteful in descriptions of murder scenes. Very little cuss words, yay! Did not use the Lord's name in vain (if you are a Christian) and even a character prayed to the Lord. No yucky over the board love scenes either. I finally found a mystery writer I can listen to / read. Bravo on a job well done! The narrator is one of my favorites also!

CH is AWESOME

The only complaint that I had was that sometimes I wasn’t sure which character the narrator was supposed to be! Other than that a great book!

Love the author. But this was a horrible narration.

I really enjoyed both the Harper Connelly series and the Sookie Stackhouse serious. I like Ms. Harris' work, but the woman who narrates this audio book did a horrible job.
This is only the third audio book I've listened to, but I'm almost turned off from any future. Most certainly will not be purchasing anything narrated by T Plummer.
Would not refer this audiobook.