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Overview

When death comes from out of the blue, part-time librarian "Roe" lands smack in the middle of a baffling murder case-in the latest Aurora Teagarden mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Roe never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she never wanted to see him dead-especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. Luckily, even Lawrenceton, Georgia's, finest know that Roe couldn't possibly be in two places at once, so her name is crossed off the suspect list.

But then other strange things happen around Roe, 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). Clearly there is a personal message in this madness that Roe must decipher-before it is too late...

A dead body falls out of the Georgia sky on the first page of this rollicking, romantic Southern mystery starring librarian/sleuth Aurora Teagarden, "a heroine as capable and potentially complex and P.D.

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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 outthe suspense barely cranks up before the solution descends with a thud not unlike that of Jack Burns's corpse. (Nov.)
Library Journal
Usually outspoken and witty, Aurora Teagarden is nearly struck dumb when a body falls from a circling plane and lands in her backyard, barely missing her bodyguard and buddy, Angel. The body belongs to a local policemanno great friendbut strange events follow: government agents appear; someone clobbers Angel's husband; and a co-worker at the library is murdered after a showdown with Aurora. In her likable, indomitable fashion, Aurora sleuths in self-defense. Infectious prose, engaging characters, crafty plotting; recommended.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425245545
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 3/6/2012
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 178,985
  • Series: Aurora Teagarden Series , #5
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Vampire novels featuring Sookie Stackhouse. She writes both fantasy and mystery and lives in a small town in southern Arkansas with her family. Visit her website at www.charlaineharris.com.

Biography

A native of the Mississippi Delta, Charlaine Harris grew up in a family of avid readers (her father was a teacher; her mother a librarian). She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, graduating in 1973 with a degree in English and Communication Arts. Although she penned poetry and plays in school, her first serious foray into fiction was with two standalone novels, Sweet and Deadly and A Secret Rage, published (effortlessly!) in the early 1980s.

After her early success, Harris released the first installment in a series of lighthearted mysteries starring spunky, small-town Georgia librarian, true crime enthusiast, and amateur sleuth Aurora Teagarden. When Aurora debuted in Real Murders (1990), Publishers Weekly welcomed "a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray." The book went on to receive an Agatha Award nomination.

Anxious for another challenge, Harris began a second series in 1996. Darker and edgier than the Teagarden novels, these mysteries featured taciturn, 30-something housecleaner Lily Bard, a woman with a complicated past who has moved to the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, to find peace and solitude. The first novel, Shakespeare's Landlord, was well-received. BookList raved: "Harris has created an intriguing new character in this solidly plotted story." [Much to the disappointment of her fans, Harris concluded the Lilly Bard sequence in 2001 with Shakespeare's Counselor.]

Although Harris achieved moderate success with these two series (which she laughingly describes as "cozies with teeth"), she would hit the jackpot in 2001 with Dead Until Dark, a sly, spoofy paranormal mystery starring a telepathic Louisiana cocktail waitress named Sookie Stackhouse, who falls in love with a vampire named Bill. The novel, a delightful hybrid of mystery, science fiction, and romance, was an instant hit with critics. ("Harris' Sookie has the potential to attract more readers than Hamilton's Anita Blake," raved the dark fantasy magazine Cemetery Dance.) Readers, too, adored the Southern Vampire Series and have rewarded the author with bestseller after bestseller. (In 2008, the Sookie saga came to HBO in a top-rated television adaptation, True Blood, starring Anna Paquin.)

With 2006's Grave Sight, Harris added yet another fascinating character to her stable -- a young woman named Harper Connelly whose youthful encounter with a lightning bolt has left her with the ability to find corpses and determine how they died. In addition to juggling characters and plots for her popular series, Harris has also contributed short stories and novellas to several anthologies of paranormal fantasy fiction.

Good To Know

In our interview, Harris confesses:

"I'm really a boring person. My family (my husband and three children) is the most important thing in my life. I go to bed early, I get up early. I love to go to the movies with my husband. My favorite things about finally making some money as a writer are (a) I can buy as many books as I want, and (b) I can hire a maid. The first job I had was working in an offset darkroom at a very small newspaper. I stood on a concrete floor all day and made minimum wage -- which then was $1.60 an hour. I hated it, and I learned a lot, though not necessarily about working in a darkroom. So being a writer is much better."

    1. Hometown:
      Southern Arkansas
    1. Date of Birth:
      November 25, 1951
    2. Place of Birth:
      Tunica, Mississippi
    1. Education:
      B.A. in English and Communication Arts, Rhodes, 1973
    2. Website:
      http://www.charlaineharris.com

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    an engaging regional amateur sleuth cozy

    In Lawrenceton, Georgia strange, sometimes dangerous things occur around Aurora ¿Roe¿ Teagarden, but nothing seems to directly happen to her. As Roe and her bodyguard Angel are in her garden, suddenly a body falls from the sky leaving a deep imprint on her lawn. The police arrive at the landing site and turn the body over only to find it is one of them, Detective Sergeant Jack Burns.---------------- Luckily for the librarian not the victim, Roe has witnesses who saw her in plain sight when the corpse landed near her. Jack had disliked and distrusted Roe although she never knew why. She soon gets calls with the other person hanging up on her without a word and someone places a pink ribbon around the neck of her cat. Angel and Roe get into a fight with a librarian aide soon after that woman is assaulted by a pipe and hospitalized. Another cop is in danger her former lover Arthur Smith with both attending a dinner accompanied by their current significant others. Roe tries to put together the puzzle pieces based on the assumption that Angel is the object of an obsessed person, but feels she must determine the coherent picture before someone else is hurt or dead.--------------------- Charlaine Harris, renowned for her Stackhouse urban fantasies and her Harper Connelly mysteries, provides an engaging regional amateur sleuth cozy that is actually a reprint of a mid 1990s tale. The Teagarden mysteries are fun to read as they showcase the talented author¿s earlier works. DEAD OVER HEELS is a fine entry as there seems to be no rationale reason from the incidents. Though not the best Teagarden whodunit, as the suspense never fully leaves the ground (pun intended), fans of the series will appreciate the heroine¿s efforts to uncover the truth and her inner thoughts re her spouse and her bodyguard.------------------- Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted March 22, 2012

    Highly recommended!!!

    I love Charlaine Harris Aurora Teagarden series.

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  • Posted September 2, 2011

    An Amazing writer..

    Anything Charlaine Harris writes I LOVE!!!!She is amazing with everything she does.. thank you Charlaine... I can never put anything you write down.

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  • Posted January 2, 2010

    Fun read!

    I enjoyed the Aurora Teagarden series as much as the Sookie Stackhouse series.

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  • Posted August 30, 2009

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    Dead over Heels is a great book for anytime reading

    Dead over Heels is great for rainy days. It is also great for reading that you don't really want to think about if it could really happen or not. Harris writes like a woman that really wants something good happen to a lady that doesn't always have a great life. Aurora is a great person to have a book about. This book is about Roe along with Detective Burns who Roe does not always get along with ends up getting killed in front of Roe. along with alot of odd things that end up since Roe moving into the new House.

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  • Posted June 20, 2009

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    Not as crazy about Roe

    I've read most of the Roe Teagarden series and I'm not so crazy about her. I really can't decide if I like her or not. She's a little too Southern for me, too timid. Most of the mysteries aren't so hard to figure out. This one I thought was a little ridiculous--why all of a sudden would this person (who has known Roe for a long time) suddenly develop a murderous jealous streak and become obsessed with her? Didn't make any sense to me. There's a couple more books in the series that I haven't read but I don't know if I will bother. I certainly am not buying anymore--I will save my money for better books. Charlaine Harris though is a good, entertaining writer. I highly recommend the Sookie Stackhouse series (and the HBO show, True Blood, that is based on them).

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  • Posted May 11, 2009

    Dead Over Heels doesn't dissappoint.

    Light, easy read in keeping with the rest of the series. Charming characters.

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