"Real Murder: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"

[Pcdunn]

Hallmark Mysteries recently ran two television mystery movies revolving around a group called The Real Murders Club. I enjoyed them, especially the scenes involving the true-crime enthusiasts, and thought I would mention them.

They're apparently based on a series of mystery novels featuring Aurora Teagarden.

[GUT]

Hallmark Mysteries recently ran two television mystery movies revolving around a group called The Real Murders Club. I enjoyed them, especially the scenes involving the true-crime enthusiasts, and thought I would mention them.

They're apparently based on a series of mystery novels featuring Aurora Teagarden.

Thanks Dunny will keep an eye out for them.

[Ally]

I've read them. They are written by Charlaine Harris (the same woman who wrote the True Blood vampire things). They are basically her early works where she put a quirky southern woman in a mystery setting. The Book Club aspect of the series was literally only the first novel and then it was dropped and it became a series about general murder in the small southern town she lived in. They were good, light, what I call "popcorn" reads. Not really gripping but light character study type novels that you can easily pick up and put down.

[Pcdunn]

Thank you for the information, Ally.

One thing I enjoyed about the club in the TV-movies was that they reminded me of these folks on Casebook! Also the way the Julia Wallace murder was replicated, down to the raincoat-- and that I knew about it, even though until recently I'd never heard of it! I don't know if the librarian murdered in her library is true, or not, though...

[Ally]

Librarian murdered in her library?? I don't remember that from the novel (though it's been a few years since I read it) so that might be something they inserted for the drama in the movie. The Wallace murder was recreated, I remember that, and a couple of others, but I don't remember them attempting to "do in" Aurora (the librarian) in a library setting based on an old murder. Don't want to spoil the books so I won't go further than that in case someone does read them. Again, I could be wrong, it has been a few years since I read them but if that was the "dramatic climax" kind of thing, I am pretty sure that might have been made for the movie. (The murder that was chosen as the climax in the book was probably too squicky for Hallmark since it was based on a child killer so that might be why they changed it).