The Last Detective See Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) Details
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Roe is still in mourning over her husband's death when a movie company arrives in Lawrenceton. They've come to make a film based on a book written by her one-time boyfriend Robin Crusoe, a book that detailed their shared investigation of a series of murders that occurred years before.
But when the lead actress-who is playing Roe-is killed, Robin and Roe join forces once again to thwart a killer, without knowing that Roe herself is the next target.
Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) Reviews
The Last Detective : Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) Reviews
| 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful  Roe's getting back on the track..., By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) (Hardcover) and it's typical that it needed a murder to rouse her. This series seems to have recovered a little of the light-heartedness that had dimmed over the last few books, but it is NOT (despite idiot jacket blurbs) a "cozy."The plot is thinner than is typical in a Harris mystery -- mostly, I think,so readers can get to know the "new" Roe -- a woman who was widowed with shocking suddenness as an almost incidental incident in a series of nasty crimes. Harris does an excellent job with Roe's gradual recovery, though she focuses exclusively on Martin Bartell's death and ignores the trauma and misery that must have resulted from the attendant crimes. And what would be sufficient to distract Aurora Teagarden in her half-frozen state? Murders old and new, of course. The movies are coming to town, and they are filming a script based on a true-crime book dealing with a horrid series of murders that plagued Lawrenceton many years earlier. Roe had been instrumental in exposing the killers in... Read more 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful  Roe is back, and it's good to see her, By Booked4Life "booked4life" (middle america) - See all my reviews This review is from: Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) (Hardcover) Charlaine Harris is an interesting mystery writer, in part because she is willing to take chances in her books. In Roe's last outing, A Fool and His Honey, an abrupt death near the end of the book brings the reader up short. We are not used to having sympathetic, continuing characters die in mystery fiction.But, of course, life is like that. In this outing, the mystery situation is pretty farfetched, but Harris makes it enjoyable, by bringing us along as Roe Teagarden re-enters her life following the death of her beloved husband. A fast, fun read, but not the best of the series. Still--worth your time. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful  Fascinating story and lead character - highly recommended., By This review is from: Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7) (Hardcover) Diminutive librarian Aurora Teagarden learns that Robin Crusoe, a true crime writer, she worked with many years ago to solve a string of murders is returning to Lawrenceton, GA. He is coming to film a movie based on his book about the murders. Of course, when the crew arrives, additional murders are in the future.This is a mystery; in reality they're a number of mysteries in the book. In terms of the protagonist's extended description of her emotions and social interactions, there might be a temptation to classify this as a cozy mystery, except for the tasteful and non-gratuitous descriptions of a number of sexual encounters. The author has no dearth of characters. In the first chapter alone she identifies, by name, between one and two-dozen characters, and in the next two chapters she probably doubles that number. New named characters are added in subsequent chapters. This has the effect of making the story seem real. It also means that unless you have a... Read more |
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