Aurora Teagarden · Book 1

Real Murders

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
230
ISBN-13
9781602850996
Type
novel
Cover of Real Murders

About this book

Real Murders (1990) opens the series with Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden's true-crime club dissecting old, unsolved cases for fun -- until a member turns up dead, staged to match one of the murders they'd just discussed. Charlaine Harris's 230-page debut set up the small-town Lawrenceton world that follows.

Key facts about Real Murders

Charlaine Harris wrote Real Murders, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1990. The book has 230 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781602850996 to find the main one.

Real Murders is book 1 of 10 in the Aurora Teagarden series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Charlaine Harris writes Lily Bard, Sookie Stackhouse and Harper Connelly, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, hardboiled mystery and paranormal mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Last Wizards' Ball is the latest published Charlaine Harris book on file, from 2025.

About Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is an American author who has spent over four decades moving between different corners of crime and speculative fiction, always anchored by a strong regional voice. She's best known for the Southern Vampire Mysteries, thirteen novels following telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse through a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin," which HBO adapted as the hit series True Blood (2008–2014). See every Charlaine Harris book in order.

Its place in Aurora Teagarden

Real Murders is book 1 in the Aurora Teagarden series. It is followed by A Bone to Pick. See the full Aurora Teagarden reading order.

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is a small-town Georgia librarian with a hobby that keeps getting her into trouble: she belongs to a Real Murders club, a group of true-crime enthusiasts who meet to dissect unsolved historical cases for fun — until a member of the club turns up dead, staged to match one of the murders they'd just discussed, and Roe finds she has a genuine knack for working out who did it. Charlaine Harris, later famous for the Sookie Stackhouse novels that became HBO's True Blood , wrote Aurora Teagarden…

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