Bargain @ 99 cents for today only as part of the Kindle Daily Deals for April 24th in Canada & the US:
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris (
SYKM,
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), perhaps best known for her Sookie Stackhouse vampire mystery series which was adapted into the HBO show
True Blood. This is the 1st in her Aurora Teagarden series of cozy mysteries starring a librarian in Georgia who is also a crime buff, and was a finalist for the 1990 Agatha Award for Best Novel. According to ISFDB, these exist in the same meta-universe as the Sookie books, but have no sfnal elements. Originally published by Worldwide, but now being offered via the Jabberwocky Literary Agency.
Seems to be on sale at
Amazon only, but here's a
Kobo link in case you want to price-match (Jabberwocky is couponable and seems to have much of the rest of the series, and this particular installment is DRM-free at Kobo, but apparently not Amazon).
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, is looking forward to the monthly meeting of the Real Murders Society, a group of fellow crime enthusiasts who share a unique interest in historical murders. The Society meetings are the highlight of Roe’s social life in sleepy Lawrenceville, Georgia, and she’s ready for a quiet night of discussion, coffee, and cookies. But after she finds the body of a Society member in a staged crime scene eerily similar to the one the group was supposed to discuss that very night, Roe finds herself at the center of a murderous story of her own.
As the killer strikes again, it’s obvious that members of the Real Murders Society have become targets of a knowledgeable copycat. With the help of handsome police detective Arthur Smith and the town’s dashing new resident, mystery novelist Robin Crusoe, it’s up to Roe to discover if the murderer is one of the group’s own and to piece the perplexing puzzle together before another body appears.