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A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2)
A Bone to Pick - Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2
Author: Charlaine Harris
Aurora Teagarden suddenly finds herself very rich when elderly spinster Jane Engle dies and leaves her a fortune. When Aurora goes to take possession of Miss Engle's home, she finds the place ransacked. Poking around, she turns up a ghoulish artifact the intruder missed: a bashed-in human skull hidden in a cleverly disguised window seat. — Fe...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780425239698
ISBN-10: 0425239691
Publication Date: 3/1/2011
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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WVgrrl avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on
Helpful Score: 4
A charming continuation of the story of Aurora Teagarden, who in this book goes from Southern small-town librarian to a woman of leisure (more or less). She is still looking for the right man, figuring out the intricacies of having a mother-daughter relationship now that she is an independent adult, and getting reluctantly thrown into solving what may or may not a be a murder. The book is a quick read, and I'm looking forward to receiving the others in the series.
CheriePie avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 149 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I didn't like this second book in the series as much as Real Murders, if only because there wasn't as much murder going on. :p

In this installment, Roe inherits the estate of her friend Jane Engle, a seventy year old "sweet old lady" who was formerly in the Real Murders club with her. Roe's got no idea why Jane would leave the house to her, but Jane's lawyer, Bubba Sewell, tells her that Jane has only a single brother left still living, who's pretty old himself, and she left him her car, her cat, and a few thousand dollars. But Roe is inheriting Jane's house, along with all it's contents and $550,000! Which is apparently a pretty good windfall down South! (Up here it'd barely buy a nice house. LOL)

Anyhow, it's the skull that Roe discovers inside Jane's house that's got her curious... just whose skull is it? And do the recent mysterious break-ins in the neighborhoodwhere nothing was taken, just houses ransackedhave anything to do with it? This mystery gets wrapped up at the end, but I won't give any spoilers here to ruin it.

We also learn a little more about Roe's personal life, and her longing to find a good man and get married. She's no longer with either of the two men she dated in Real Murders. The police detective Arthur has married his partner Lynn. And Robin Crusoe left the townhouse to go live in the city, and then went off to Europe for a little while, stepping back as Roe had gotten more serious (or so she thought) with Arthur. It's a little uncomfortable for Roe when she finds out that Arthur and Lynn have just bought the house across the street from the one she inherited from Jane, and to top it off, Lynn's already pregnant. (Can we say shotgun wedding! LOL) So Roe's now dating the town's Episcopal minister, Aubrey Scott, who performed her mother's recent wedding to John Queensland.

I think if Ms. Harris didn't make the rest of the story fairly entertaining, it would've flopped because the wondering of this skull is the only mystery part to this story... Roe does a little sleuthing, but since she doesn't mention the skull to anyone else, it's not a subject for dinner-time conversation or anything among her friends, acquaintances, and new neighbors, at least not until the rest of the skeleton is discovered. *grin*
SierraK avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 194 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Second book in the Aurora ("Roe") Teagarden mystery series. In this book, Roe inherits a house and a small fortune from her friend Jane Engle (we met her in the first book "Real Murders"). When Roe goes over to inspect the house she inherited from Jane, she finds it has been ransacked. After some searching, she finds what the vandal was looking for: a human skull. Roe, always interested in solving a mystery, tries to find out the identity of the skull and how it ended up hidden in Jane Engle's house.

Another fun story in this series.
littlepine avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 169 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The second book in the series.I like the main character and will be looking for more in the series.
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ladycholla avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 2081 more book reviews
Loved this story. Interesting twist, Aurora is funny and this was very good. Didn't figure out the end. Makes a good mystery for me.
robinmy avatar reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 2032 more book reviews
Nice light-hearted mystery. Second in the Aurora Teagarden series.
reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 34 more book reviews
I'm not sure what to make of this book. Other than a murder there isn't much mystery. No sleuthing to be seen here. The "who done it" is solved by no one really. It's just dumb luck. There is another lackluster budding romance that is no better than in the first book. Aurora strikes me as an unfeeling, greedy little thing in this book. She's so happy with her inheritance without much regard to the dead friend that left it all to her. Then she decides she doesn't want to work anymore. She just seems rather unfocused and uninspiring in this book.
reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 7 more book reviews
I just finished reading this complete series (8 books) and I feel Charlaine Harris did an excellent job with the characters, unexpected twists and plots. I often read an entire book in one setting so I could find out who did it and why!
reviewed A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden, Bk 2) on + 41 more book reviews

A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So after finishing Book one of the Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, it wasn't bed time and so I started on book two!

A Bone to Pick is the second book in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery and in this we find Roe attending her mother's wedding to a former Real Murders Club member, then attending the wedding of her former boyfriend and Real Murders club member, Arthur Smith, only to be shocked by the very visibly pregnant bride, then the funeral of a friend and former Real Murders club member. To add to her bewilderment, she is contacted by the attorney only to find out that the friend left everything to her! Everything being a house, a sizable bank account and a mystery.

Roe decides that she must solve the mystery, it is what Jane would have wanted and she proceeds to work on that. All the while trying to decide if she wants to give up her comfortable, and rent free townhouse for the ownership of the little house on Honor Street, only to find out that the house across the street is the new home of Arthur and his wife! As Roe ponders and puzzles her way through another mystery, she answers questions and makes decisions for her life and her future.

Again, this is so well written that it draws you in, I could almost see myself walking around the little house on Honor Street, I could feel the eyes of the neighborhood, and feel for Roe. I was pulled into the story and into her life and I wanted it to keep going. I wanted to know more and to find out more about Roe, even after the mystery was solved. Guess that means I have to find book three!

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