Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (June 8th) in Canada & the US:
The Julius House 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 4th in her popular Aurora Teagarden series of cozy mysteries starring a librarian who is a crime fiction aficionado, and was originally published by Worldwide Library in 1996, now offered by the Jabberwocky Literary Agency. These have apparently also been adapted for TV movies.
The sale price appears to be Amazon-only since it's part of the Kindle Daily Deal, but you can price-match it @
Kobo, where the series is DRM-free (DRMed at Amazon).
Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the “Julius house,” infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she’s never felt happier.
Then Martin suddenly rents the small apartment on their new property to an old army buddy and his wife, who seem to be more bodyguard than tenant, and Roe is sure her husband-to-be is keeping secrets. To take her mind off her suspicions, she opens her own unofficial investigation into the Julius family cold case. But when an axe-wielding stranger attacks her, Roe must determine whether it’s her husband’s secrets, the mystery of the Julius family’s fates, or both, that have put her own life on the chopping block.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris has once again brought Southern charm and an engaging mystery in this latest Aurora Teagarden installment. Real Murders, A Bone To Pick, Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, and the rest of the Aurora Teagarden series has been adapted into film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.