A Bone To Pick: #2 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

by Charlaine Harris | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0373261365 Global Overview for this book
Registered by NeedSun of Perth Road, Ontario Canada on 7/8/2006
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2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Saturday, July 8, 2006
Book Description:
Aurora Teagarden's life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn't have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn't anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they'd both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane's will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn't take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn't quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?

Journal Entry 2 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Sent to Cherie today with Real Murders. These are both still on my TBR list.

Journal Entry 3 by CheriePie from Campbell, California USA on Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Received this along with a couple of other books from NeedSun. I'll move them near the top of my TBR pile so I can get these two and the other Teagarden books I collected for her on their way soon.

Journal Entry 4 by CheriePie from Campbell, California USA on Saturday, December 23, 2006
I didn't like this second book in the series as much as Real Murders, if only because there wasn't as much murder going on. :p

In this installment, Roe inherits the estate of her friend Jane Engle, a seventy year old "sweet old lady" who was formerly in the Real Murders club with her. Roe's got no idea why Jane would leave the house to her, but Jane's lawyer, Bubba Sewell, tells her that Jane has only a single brother left still living, who's pretty old himself, and she left him her car, her cat, and a few thousand dollars. But Roe is inheriting Jane's house, along with all it's contents and $550,000! Which is apparently a pretty good windfall down South! (Up here it'd barely buy a nice house. LOL)

Anyhow, it's the skull that Roe discovers inside Jane's house that's got her curious... just whose skull is it? And do the recent mysterious break-ins in the neighborhood—where nothing was taken, just houses ransacked—have anything to do with it? This mystery gets wrapped up at the end, but I won't give any spoilers here to ruin it.

We also learn a little more about Roe's personal life, and her longing to find a good man and get married. She's no longer with either of the two men she dated in Real Murders. The police detective Arthur has married his partner Lynn. And Robin Crusoe left the townhouse to go live in the city, and then went off to Europe for a little while, stepping back as Roe had gotten more serious (or so she thought) with Arthur. It's a little uncomfortable for Roe when she finds out that Arthur and Lynn have just bought the house across the street from the one she inherited from Jane, and to top it off, Lynn's already pregnant. (Can we say shotgun wedding! LOL) So Roe's now dating the town's Episcopal minister, Aubrey Scott, who performed her mother's recent wedding to John Queensland.

I think if Ms. Harris didn't make the rest of the story fairly entertaining, it would've flopped because the wondering of this skull is the only mystery part to this story... Roe does a little sleuthing, but since she doesn't mention the skull to anyone else, it's not a subject for dinner-time conversation or anything among her friends, acquaintances, and new neighbors, at least not until the rest of the skeleton is discovered. *grin*

This is now headed home to NeedSun, along with a few other books and a little holiday prezzie. Enjoy!

UPDATE: Mailed to NeedSun on 26-Dec-2006 via Airmail Letter Post.

Journal Entry 5 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Monday, January 8, 2007
Thank you for sending this one to me. I am looking forward to reading it but have quite a few to read befor I can get to it.

Journal Entry 6 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
It was pretty amazing that nothing much happened in this book. Roe found a skull, I am not giving anything away since that is on the back cover, and that was about it. You couldn't help but keep reading because Ms. Harris is such a good writer. I was never bored and ended up very interested in Roe's life.

Now that I have finished the first two of this series, I will start the bookring travelling.

Journal Entry 7 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Here are all the books in this series that are going to be sent out in a book spiral.

1. Real Murders
2. A Bone to Pick
3. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
4. The Julius House
5. Dead Over Heels
6. A Fool and His Honey
7. Last Scene Alive
8. Poppy Done to Death


Here are the participants and mailing order:


cathepsut--->Egypt/int
Wyvernfriend--->Ireland/Europe
sunlightbub--->UK/Int

Laura??? / UK/Europe

Rianonne--->Austria/Europe
Amberkatze--->Austria/Europe
(Not 3.Three Bedrooms, One Corpse; 7.Last Scene Alive; 8.Poppy Done to Death)

CandyDarling--->Finland/int
Morgaine77--->Switzerland/Europe
shaunesay-->USA/US,Can
nan1970-->USA/Int

needmorezoloft-->USA/USA
(Not 7.Last Scene Alive)
ctgmom-->USA/USA
(Not 1. Real Murders)
MaplesFlowers-->USA/USA
(Not 1. Real Murders;3.Three Bedrooms, One Corpse;4.The Julius House;6.A Fool and His Honey;7.Last Scene Alive;8.Poppy Done to Death )

lizziwhizz-->USA/USA
(Not 1.REAL Murders; 3.Three Bedrooms, One Corpse; 7.Last Scene Alive; 8.Poppy Done to Death
sanddanz-->USA/Int
(Not 1.REAL Murders; 4.The Julius House; 5.Dead Over Heels; 6.A Fool and His Honey; 7.Last Scene Alive)







Journal Entry 8 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Monday, May 7, 2007
Sent by air to Cathesput today. Enjoy!!!

Let the ring begin.

Journal Entry 9 by NeedSun from Perth Road, Ontario Canada on Sunday, September 9, 2007
Well, sadly this book has been declared lost in the mail. There may be hope because Cathepsut has received some books after a three month dry spell. Someone will order it when it gets reissued in Feb next year and the ring will continue.

New ring:
2. A Bone to Pick


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