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Praise for
Harriss love of life, mysteries, most things southern, and the inevitable and saving humor found in everyday life and not-so-everyday events colors another welcome adventure in this delightful mystery series.
Mostly Murder
A delightful book that is a thrilling and colorful American cozy. Adding elements of a whodunit enriches the brilliant story line. Charming secondary characters and homey subplots abound.
Midwest Book Review
Infectious prose, engaging characters, crafty plotting; recommended.
Library Journal
A good old down-home southern-style mystery!
The Southern Pines (NC) Pilot
The Julius House
Roe is so charming, you will want to go back and read the first three.
Mostly Murder
Harris gives the reader quite a taste of small-town life in the south. Dont miss it.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
In the best of the series to date... the authors brisk, upbeat style keeps tension simmering.
Publishers Weekly
A witches brew of decorous old bones, whiffs of international intrigue, and helpful wedding tips, interspersed with nightly bouts of tasteful, enthusiastic offscreen coupling. Hands down Roes most bizarre adventure to date.
Kirkus Reviews
Good reading, augmented by solid characterization and occasional humor.
Library Journal
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
[A] high-spirited southern cozy.
Publishers Weekly
Sparkling prose... [A] breath of fresh air.
Library Journal
Nicely done southern, small-town ambience... [A] breezy, unpretentious style.
Kirkus Reviews
Delightful... Clearly focused plot, animated description of character and real estate, and sparkling prose commend this breath of fresh air to all collections.
Library Journal
A Bone to Pick
Harris provides some genuinely funny scenes as Aurora breezily unravels the murderers identity... supported by an appealing cast of southern gothic characters.
Publishers Weekly
A pleasant, fast read... Enjoyable.
AllReaders.com
Entertaining.
Booklist
Pleasant reading... Heartily recommend[ed].
Pen & Dagger
Real Murders is the first adventure for Harriss perceptive protagonist and I eagerly look forward to the second... Harriss story alternately charms and chills, a difficult combination she manages with aplomb and brilliance.
Carolyn Hart, award-winning
author of Set Sail for Murder
An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying in Harriss novel... Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. Jamess Cordelia Gray.
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Charlaine Harriss
Southern Vampire novels
featuring Sookie Stackhouse
The goofy charm of Harriss world, with its humor and occasional terror, is what makes Dead Until Dark so delightful.
The Denver Post
Harris brings off this blend of mystery and vampires better than most.
San Francisco Chronicle
A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery thats hard to put down and should not be missed.
Susan Sizemore, New York Times bestselling author of Primal Heat and the Laws of the Blood series
Praise for Charlaine Harriss Harper Connelly Mysteries
Too much fun.
Wilmington (NC) Star-News
Harris debuts a series that just might surpass all her others in popularity... Will have readers dying for more.
Booklist
Fast pacing, excellent character development, and a strong story line... This fabulous opening gambit affirms that every series Charlaine Harris creates is utterly fantastic.
Midwest Book Review
Praise for Charlaine Harriss Lily Bard Mysteries
Lily Bard [is] the equal of Kay Scarpetta, Kinsey Mill-hone, and V. I. Warshawski.
Library Journal
First-rate mystery.
Midwest Book Review
Lily Bard gives as good as she gets. The reading is fast and the actions faster, proving that women really are the better half.
Mostly Murder
One of the best-drawn and most-compelling characters in contemporary mystery fictioncomplex, smart, street-wise, tough.
Booklist
Ace Books by Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse Novels
DEAD UNTIL DARK
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS
CLUB DEAD
DEAD TO THE WORLD
DEAD AS A DOORNAIL
DEFINITELY DEAD
ALL TOGETHER DEAD
FROM DEAD TO WORSE
MANY BLOODY RETURNS
edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner
Berkley Prime Crime Books by Charlaine Harris
The Harper Connelly Mysteries
GRAVE SIGHT
GRAVE SURPRISE
AN ICE COLD GRAVE
The Lily Bard Mysteries
SHAKESPEARES LANDLORD
SHAKESPEARES CHAMPION
SHAKESPEARES TROLLOP
SHAKESPEARES COUNSELOR
The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries
REAL MURDERS
A BONE TO PICK
THREE BEDROOMS, ONE CORPSE
THE JULIUS HOUSE
DEAD OVER HEELS
SWEET AND DEADLY
A SECRET RAGE
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DEAD OVER HEELS
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Copyright 1996 by Charlaine Harris Schulz.
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