These are three more novels in the Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris. These quick reads are really helping me get caught up on my goal of reading 104 books by the end of the year!
As usual with Harris's work, these are character-driven much more than plot-driven. Aurora is a fun and interesting character. She dresses and styles herself in just as poor taste as does Sookie Stackhouse. She is a tiny little librarian who is often stumbling upon dead bodies. Aurora also loves mystery novels and true crimes, so she enjoys trying to solve all the murders that happen near her.
In these three novels, she looks for a new house to buy, dumps her minister boyfriend for a more exciting man, and finds the Realtor Murderer (I made up that nickname just now, just for you). She gets married, takes ownership of a house with a mysterious past, and discovers some unwelcome secrets about her husband. She finds the corpse of a man she has hated for years, fights with a fellow librarian, sees a stabbing, and is pursued romantically by a few men other than her husband.
Even though death, betrayal, assault, and hatred are major themes in these, they still remain rather light-hearted and are very easy to read. And thank goodness, because I don't think I would reach my mass-reading goal without them!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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