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Author name: Charlaine Harris

 : Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 5)
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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425223031
ISBN number: 0425223035
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 05, 2008
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 11084
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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 it’s too late.



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User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - I love everything by this author
Really. The book is just satisfying. I like the main characters and Roe is a complex woman well worth reading about.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - More Aurora Teagarden
If you have been reading this series, this is a very good addition to this story of small-town South. If this is your very first time, I think you might like to go back to the very first book, "Real Murders" and meet the "cast."




Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - dead over heels
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.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - engaging regional amateur sleuth
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





Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - A stupid heroine? A dumb damsel?
Any amount of enjoyment of this book is largely overshadowed by the reader's overwhelming disbelief at such blatant stupdity on Roe's part. Although 1996 (published date) seems like a long time ago, they DID have *69 and a little gadget called Caller ID. Yet Roe continues to be intimidated by hang up calls and a spooky caller asking, "Are you alone?". Man, that *69 should have been a done deal with her subsequent breath (they even have nifty software that will block unidentified-numbered calls from being put through...wow!). But nope, she has to be the proverbial dumb damsel. This kind of writing is an insult to women everywhere. Please, save yourself the frustration at such stupidity and read elsewhere!

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