Dead Over Heels

Overview

Part-time librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead-- especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, ranging from peculiar (her irascible cat turns up wearing a pink ribbon) to violent (her assistant at the library is attacked) to potentially deadly (her former lover is stabbed), she must decipher the personal message in the madness before it's too late.

Editorial Reviews

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. (Nov.)

Author Information

Bio of Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is the Anthony Award–winning and national bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World (spring 2004), etc. She has also written the Lily Bard series, which includes Shakespeare's Counselor; the Aurora Teagarden mystery series; and two stand–alone mystery novels: A Secret Rage and Sweet and Deadly. Besides winning the Anthony for Dead Until Dark, she has been a two–time finalist for the Agatha Award and a finalist for the Dilys Award in the mystery genre, for the Sapphire and Pearl Awards in romance fiction, and the Compton Crook Award in science fiction. She lives in Arkansas with her husband and children.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Penguin

Filesize

1.56 MB

Number of Pages

272

eBook ISBN

9781436200387