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.
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an Ingenious Plot And Sufficient Flow Of Blood Keep The Pages Flying In Harris's ( Sweet And Deadly ) Third Novel, As A Series Of Killings Patterned After Celebrated Murders Is Perpetrated On The Small Community Of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (roe) Teagarden, Professional Librarian, Belongs To The Real Murders Club, A Group Of 12 Enthusiasts Who Gather Monthly To Study Famous Baffling Or Unsolved Crimes. As A Meeting Is To Begin, Roe Discovers The Massacred Body Of A Club Member. She Recognizes The Method Of Slaughter As Imitating The Very Crime She Was To Address That Night--suddenly Her Life As Armchair Sleuth Assumes An Eerie Reality. The Murderer Continues To Claim Victims, Each In The Style Of A Different Historical Killer. Roe Herself Becomes A Target, And Also Attracts Two Admirers, Robin Crusoe, A Famed Mystery Writer New To Lawrenceton, And Club Member/detective Arthur Smith. Death Seems To Have Infused New Life Into Her Waning Social Calendar, An Irony Not Lost On This Pensive Character. 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. (dec.)
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Mystery
- Amateur Sleuths
- Mystery
Publisher : Berkley
Author : Harris, Charlaine
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2007-12-04
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0425218716
ISBN-13 : 9780425218716
Item weight : 0.35 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 4.2 in x 6.6 in
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