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| Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 5) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 5960
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0425223035
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425223031
ASIN: 0425223035
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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Part-time librarian Aurora Roe Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, 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), she must decipher the personal message in the madness before its too late.
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enjoyable fluff for Teagarden fans January 5, 2009
This is the 5th in a series of mysteries about Aurora Teagarden, a librarian who has come into some money and lives among her family and friends (and a few enemies) in Lawrenceton, GA. This time out she is minding her own business when a body is dropped from a small plane and onto her newly mown lawn; it turns out to be a policeman who feuded with Roeon numerous occasions. After other killings continue to point to Roe or her household, she decides to get serious and figure out who the real killer is, of course!
Aurora and her circle of acquaintances are interesting characters, but this 5th in the series was neither believable nor particularly amusing. Many people are killed and the ending wraps up very quickly and without full motivation for some of the occurences. A good series, but a subpar outing.
 I love everything by this author September 28, 2008
Really. The book is just satisfying. I like the main characters and Roe is a complex woman well worth reading about.
More Aurora Teagarden September 7, 2008
If you have been reading this series, this is a very good addition to this story of small-town South. If this is your first time, I think you might like to go back to the first book, "Real Murders" and meet the "cast."
dead over heels August 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As far as Aurora Teagarden Mysteries go, "Dead Over Heels" is quite enjoyable. Roe's relationship with Martin develops, & we get to see all of the regulars of Lawrenceton, GA. Along the way, the mystery was interesting, but I only give this book 4 stars because the conclusion was a little over the top. I found it ridiculous to be honest, but the ride was fun enough. It's always fun to visit Lawrenceton, & I hope that Mrs. Harris writes another Roe mystery one of these days.
engaging regional amateur sleuth August 7, 2008
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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