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What's the world coming to - when you can't relax with an
ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the
sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur
investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question
when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department's
finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe's
friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is
mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small
red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris
more or less at Roe's feet. Roe's husband of two years, wealthy
businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his
dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery
deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the
murder. It's only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and
Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe's yard as
a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.
What do you do when you’re suffering from a severe case of insomnia?
If you’re me, you wander to your bookcase and say to yourself, “Which of
these books is interesting, but I’ll be willing to set it down when
sleep finally feels possible?” I gave up at about 2 a.m. on Saturday
morning and started to read--finally, at 4 a.m. I managed to set down
the book and sleep for a while.
I’d have to call this both a cozy
mystery and a Southern mystery. Charlaine Harris includes so many of
the details of Southern life--the churches that people attend, the
community conflicts, the everyday lifestyles of her characters. Some
readers obviously love these details--I must confess that they are why I
chose it as a “sleeping pill.”
Despite that, Aurora is a
character that drew me in and made me care what happens to her. This is
the fifth book in the series after all, I’m still reading them, and I
have no doubts at all that I’ll continue on with her adventures when I
have another sleepless night.
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