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    Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
    Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
    Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
    Audiobook6 hours

    Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

    Written by Charlaine Harris

    Narrated by Therese Plummer

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris' third Aurora Teagarden mystery finds Roe launching a new career in real estate. Unfortunately, at Roe's first showing of a house, a corpse is the star attraction. Worse still, the body belongs to a rival realtor. "Clearly focused plot, animated description of character and real estate, and sparkling prose commend this breath of fresh air ." -Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 4, 2009
    ISBN9781440789625
    Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
    Author

    Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author for both her Sookie Stackhouse fantasy/mystery series and her Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, now a series of movies on the Hallmark Movies Channel. She has lived in the South her entire life. Visit her on the Web at charlaineharris.com and facebook.com/CharlaineHarris.

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    • 3/5
      Although still a 3-star, this book was my least favorite so far of the Aurora Teagarden series. The transition between Roe's romantic relationships seemed a little abrupt, and there wasn't much suspense. Still, a light, quick read.

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    • 3/5
      Aurora falls in love at first sight--it's really lust, but okay. Amusing stuff, although her love interest doesn't do anything for me (I come to dislike him pretty quickly). I'm surprised that the realtors aren't more scared of what is happening. -KK

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Aurora (Roe) Teagarden encounters dead realtors and a very live new man in this third volume of ther series. This is another light, fun mystery.

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    • 3/5
      This is one of the stronger books in the series, I think - there's some genuine tension without the over-the-top body count of the first book, and Roe throws over her undersexed and bland boyfriend for a much more interesting fellow. I remain seriously annoyed at the climax, but at least the plot hangs together.

      (Also, bonus points for including a lesbian couple that don't murder anyone. This book is almost 20 years old and set in Georgia - it's worth noting.)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the Aurora Teagarden series. The book starts off with Roe training to be a real estate agent like her mother. Her mother asked Roe to meet some prospective buyers at a house because she was running late. When Roe meets the newcomers, she falls in love with Martin at first sight. But, while touring the house, they find the body of a rival real estate agent.So, the town is once again full of gossip and suspicion. When a second murder occurs, Roe really starts to get involved with the case.In this book, I was as involved in Roe's love life as I was in the mystery. Roe and her mother seem to be becoming closer, Aubrey starts dating a widow with a small child, and Roe's cat has a run in with the vet.The mystery was also a really good who done it. I didn't start to suspect who it was until nearly the end, but still didn't know for sure. So far I have really been enjoying this series. I'm looking forward to the next one. Overall a B-

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    • 4/5
      Book 3 in the Aurora Teagarden cozy mystery series. I ended up reading these for a RL mystery group. Not fond of Cozies, and this series in particular. It is beige, bland and the main character is wishy-washy and mostly passive.Aurora, was a part time librarian in a small town outside of Atlanta. In the last book she inherited a fortune and has since quit her job. Now she has nothing to do and has allowed her mother to talk her into selling real estate out of her mother's office. Since she doesn't have a license, she can only go along with her mother and observe. She doesn't enjoy it, but is unable to tell her mother.This book opens with Aurora and her mother showing a local mansion to a high powered outsider, Martin Bartell, and his sister. Aurora develops the hots for him on the spot,despite the fact that Aurora is dating a local minister; her attraction seems to be reciprocated.When they go into one of the bedrooms, they find the naked corpse of another Realtor, Tonia Lee Greenhouse, sitting up in the bed with thongs around her wrists. Tonia, though married, is known locally to be a bed-hopper.The mystery of the book is which Realtor is the killer. Others die and another Realtor, a black man from Aurora's mother's office is the main suspect. Aurora feels the need to investigate on her own.The other part of the book is Aurora dealing with her dating life. She works out a way to ditch the minister nicely, and goes after the real estate customer, Martin Bartell. He is wealthy, and powerful, an executive at the local branch of a large national company.It is another quick easy read that is written well, but just not my cup of tea. The settings are OK, but the characters are pretty bland, and the story and how they interact just seems to be a waste of time.

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    • 4/5
      I was immediately drawn to this series when I saw that the protagonist was a librarian! Of course, Aurora (Roe) Teagarden is also an heiress, and decides she doesn't need to be a librarian anymore so she is now working on becoming a real estate agent, following her mother's footsteps. While showing a client a three bedroom house, they discover the body of a fellow agent dead in the master bedroom. The story ramps up from there, another body is found, and Aurora discovers not only that she may be the object of a killer's search, but also the new love in her life (a real hunk who will certainly satisfy the romance readers who pick this up) may in fact be a suspect in the case. Great fun, tightly woven plot, interesting and engaging characters make this series one I'm going to continue. This one is the third I've read, and I expect the next five to be just as much fun.

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    • 3/5
      Better than the first two, but the mystery was deeper & wrapped up a little to fast. There was too much explanation at the end, not enough investigation. Found the killer & they spewed all, wrapping it all up too neatly. Otherwise, it was a better book. The characters are better developed & the writing seems tighter.

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    • 4/5
      This is a good cozy series. Roe has an unusual talent for stumbling across dead bodies — and it’s beginning to gain her a reputation! In the meantime, she’s a bit aimless in her life. The money she inherited in the previous book has allowed her some freedom, but she’s come to realize that she’s too young to live a life of leisure. With her mother being one of the real estate magnates of Lawrenceton, inserting herself into her mother’s business seems like it’s worth a try. Which is how she ends up showing a local mansion to newcomer Martin Bartell, stumbling across a body, and discovering an incredible attraction to this new man in town.I was glad to see Harris rethink Roe’s relationship with the pastor. He was rather boring, and not suited to her at all. Or perhaps, she wasn’t suited to him.Overall, I enjoy this series, and they are entertaining to listen to. It’s definitely one I will continue.

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    • 2/5
      I couldn't really get on board with the love at first sight thing in this book. It's like the author can't manage to build up a relationship for her characters; it's all immediate and lust-filled so she doesn't have to write the anticipation part.

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    • 4/5
      Aurora "Roe" is back for a third installment and is giving working for her mother as a real estate agent a go. She quit her part time job after she came into some money and is keen to give another career a go. She doesn't really have the passion for it and is more interested in selling her inherited property and buying her own place.During her first house showing for her mother she discovers a body. The woman is another real estate agent and she has been murdered and her body looks posed. Soon after a second body is found and it seems like someone in the real estate community is responsible. Roe starts to look into things and discovers there has also been a string of missing items from houses that have been on the market which may be linked to the killer. If Roe can stay out of the way of Detective Sergeant Jack Burns this time then it will be a miracle.As well as the myrder story line, there is also Roe's personal life which is progressing. She is dating a minister, but she has a definite connection with a new character. We also get to know some more about the secondary characters. This is much better than the second novel as it matches the sub plots with the main murder storyline much better. Much more in line with the first book, a real page turner and I hope book four lives up to books one and three.

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    • 3/5
      Mystery about someone who's killing women in for-sale houses. Intriguing mystery, and there was a romance, but the romance was pretty inexplicable--the 30-year-old heroine sees a guy with white hair and immediately has the hots for him. Felt like the first-person narrator was on valium or something, or that she was bored by the story.
    • 4/5
      Went right from #2 to #3. As always I'm reading other things at the same time, but I really like these mysteries. Few cell phones and set in a small town. Simple stories of neighbors knocking one another off. I love it. I'll always remember what I was reading on inaguaration day 2009--Three Bedrooms One Corpse and Anathem and The Tender Bar. What a good day.
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable, fun cozy series. This instalment has been the most enjoyable so far.
    • 3/5
      A fun read only spoiled by Roe's stupid actions in the penulimate chapter - she should be dead. I enjoyed the interaction between Aurora & Martin. Better than the previous book which was a bit too silly.
    • 5/5
      "Three Bedrooms, One Corpse" by Charlaine Harris is the third book in her series about Aurora Teagarden. (Follows Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Bk. 1 and A Bone To Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 2) The story begins with Aurora aka Roe showing a house to Martin Bartell and his sister Barby who are interested in moving nearby. Everything is going swimmingly, well if you ignore the attraction between Martin Bartell and herself, until she opens one of the bedroom doors and finds a dead body. The dead woman was also a realtor, and had been showing the house the day before. But with the key to the house put back in the office, it points to a fellow realtor being the murderer. Roe is determined to get to the bottom of this, and deal with the attraction between Martin and herself in the meantime (while still dating Aubrey). I fully recommend this book. I did figure out who was the murderer before Roe did, unlike the previous two that I read. Don't forget to check out the rest in this series. Next is The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Bk. 4, followed by Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Bk. 5, Fool And His Honey: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Bk. 6, Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries), and Poppy Done To Death: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Bk. 8. Or if you'd like to try a different series by Charlaine Harris, check out the Lily Bard mysteries.(Shakespeare's Landlord (The First Lily Bard Mystery), "Shakespeare's Champion", Shakespeare's Christmas", "Shakespeare's Trollop", and Shakespeare's Counselor") Or her new supernatural Southern Vampire Mysteries (Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Bk. 1), "Living Dead in Dallas", "Club Dead", "Dead to the World", "Dead as a Doornail", "Definitely Dead", and "All Together Dead")
    • 3/5
      Trying to help her mother, Aurora ‘Roe’ Teagarden met the Bartells (Martin and his sister Barbara) to show them the Anderton house. During the process of showing them the house, the body of another local realtor (Tonia Lee Greenhouse) was discovered. Having a fascination with true crimes, Roe started her own investigation into who would have and who could have killed this woman. While the realtors dealt with the lose of one of their own, Roe and Martin, became closer.This book is short, quick, light and fun to read. It seems to be part of a series and some of the references to previous cases were too brief (I may have to find some of the rest), leaving some things confusing and even distracting. The Romance part was very cute, but it was a side story and seemed to be more than needed, especially the Sam Ulrich bit, not needed and a bit distracting (even though it was very good), it had nothing to do with Roe figuring out who, how and why of the deaths. I will try to find others of this series, it is a good story (Librarian turned detective) but there was some choppy parts in the writing.
    • 4/5
      Former librarian Aurora Teagarden, basking in the inheritance which made her financially independent and allowed her to quit her job at the library, is now seeking a new occupation to keep her from going stir crazy with boredom. Perhaps she'll follow in her mother's footsteps and become a highly successful real estate agent.... Unfortunately, as Roe embarks on her apprenticeship showing houses, she instead seems to be turning up corpses instead: two dead real estate agents in only a week's time! Maybe it's not quite so bad as it could be though.... After all, she may not have met the enigmatically handsome Martin Bartell otherwise. :DI thoroughly enjoyed this 3rd story in the Aurora Teagarden mysteries. As usual, Aurora finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, she's actually been the one to find the bodies both times. And it seems like she may finally have a hot and stimulating love interest now too! ;)The reading is quick paced and the mystery keeps you guessing right up until the very end, when as usual, Roe figures out who's behind it all before the police do. However, I found her actions in confronting the suspect herself pretty stupid on her part. One of these days, she's gonna get herself killed! Heh, maybe that's why Ms. Harris ended this series. Maybe Roe finally did one (brave yet) stupid thing too many in the final book (book 8) and ended the series. LOL
    • 3/5
      This the the third Aurora Teagarden mystery by Charlaine Harris I've read. After inheiriting big bucks from a deceased acquaintance, Roe quits her job at the library and joins her mother's realty company at least for a little while, to see if it's something she enjoys. Unfortunately in one of the houses she shows, the corpse of another realtor is found bound to a bed. Who is the murderer? Shortly thereafter another body of yet another realtor is found. Per usual, Roe has a hard time keeping her nose out of it. Add in a new, older businessman (new in town) as a love at first sight romantic interest and Roe certainly has her hands full. The last 1/4 of the book is the most interesting. There was several little suprises that grabbed my interest more than anything up to that point. I didn't think I cared for her new man Martin, until this point and I still am not crazy about him. Maybe he will grow on me. This brings me to a pet peeve I have about this series. In the first book "Real Murders" I thought it extrememely cute when Aurora noticed that she had never had a man interested in her and suddenly she had two. By book two gone were the previous two suitors and suddenly she had a new preacher boyfriend. Now in book 3 she has yet another man. So for the majority of her life she never had a man find her attractive and suddenly in the span of three books she has attracted a minimum of four men? What kind of love potion is the chick taking? Rather unbelievable, I say. Another problem I have and the reason for the three star rating is because I just don't care about these characters. Aurora is boring and bland, so is her mother, so are all the other realtors, so are her men, so are the victims, and even the suspects. No one ever has had a real motive for the killings up through this book. The whole town is darn bland. It pains me to say that because Charlaine Harris is up in my favorite top two or three authors. She has changed the entire type of books I read and collect due to her Sookie series. I love Charlaine and I love mysteries. Why can't I love these books? It makes little sense to me but its true. I don't mind this book, it killed some time, but the whole time I thought about my TBR stack and couldn't wait to read something else in it. "Three Bedrooms, One Corpse" is not a winner but is not really a loser either. Its just Bland.
    • 3/5
      Aurora Teagarden--Roe--is now a lady of leisure. After inheriting her friend Jane's estate, Roe quit her job as a librarian and has been dabbling in real estate. But wouldn't you know it--the first time she shows a house on her own she has an electric meeting with a mysterious man and she discovers a dead body. What's up with that?Lawrenceton, Georgia, a suburb of the rapidly encroaching Atlanta, is a hotbed of murder and intrigue. But what small town in America isn't? Roe is a tolerable amateur sleuth, most of whose insights are aha! moments rather than the result of carefully examining the facts. But who cares? Her little circle is chock full of interesting characters, from her elegant, Lauren Bacall-esque mother (Aida Brattle Teagarden Queensland) to Martin Bartell, the mysterious new man in town with a possibly shady past. And if you figure out who the murderer is halfway through the book, so what; it's the journey to the big reveal that's the real fun, not the reveal itself.
    • 4/5
      Aurora has found herself a new job working for her mother but stumbles upon a corpse on her first day. She also finds herself interested in the buyer! When a second corpse shows up she realises that all is not rosy and she has to find out what's going on.Interesting instalment in the series, Aurora is an interesting character and her relationships are fun to watch as they change and as she tries to find a place for herself in the world.
    • 4/5
      Having left her library job, Roe is considering joining her mother's real estate office. That is how she ends up opening a house for Martin Bartell and his sister. She is instantly attracted to Martin but any amourous thoughts are interupted when they discover the body of another realtor in the master bedroom. The romance picks up but the discovery of another dead realtor turns suspicions to Martin and Roe decides to she must solve the crime.I really liked this one. The romance is interesting and the writing is a bit tighter. This is one of Harris' earlier works so some of the references make it a bit dated, but not enough to keep the book from being interesting. In fact, the absense of computers and cell phones is sort of nice.
    • 5/5
      The book has just the right amount of suspense mystery and romance. The author is amazing in her very clear descriptions of the setting and characters. A bit different from the hallmark movies and mysteries movies, but very similar in its tone and suspense. I’m onto the next book in the series!
    • 3/5
      This is a very early Charlene Harris book (don't be folled by a reprint) it was written in 1994 and you can feel it - not only in the absence of emails and cell phones, but Harris has grown considerably as a writer since then. That being said, this is a very sweet and cosy murder mystery with the gloriously named Aurora Teagarden (daughter of Aida Teagarden Queensland) I actually found her romance with Martin more exciting than the murder, but going from meeting to engagement in just a week was a bit too fast for me. That being said, I will read the next one, because this had a certain charm, but it's not Sookie...
    • 5/5
      This was the first cozy mystery I ever read and it started a love for a whole genre!
    • 2/5
      A review on the cover of this book compared the heroine, Aurora Teagarden, to PD James's Cordelia Grey. I took the book out of the library, assuming that the level of writing would then be on par with PD James.I was mistaken.This is an okay book if you want unrealistic romance and a simplistic plot. If you are looking for anything more complex, I suggest skipping this and going straight to PD James herself.
    • 5/5
      A little predictable, but I still loved it!! Love Auora and love the chemistry between her and Martin!!

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