A Bone to Pick

<p><font><br><b>Death comes calling on small-town librarian Aurora Teagarden in this entertaining mystery from No. 1 <i>New York Times </i>and<i> Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Charlaine Harris. </b></font><br><br>Going to two weddings - one of a former lover - and a funeral for a member of her disbanded crime study club keeps Aurora ''Roe'' Teagarden quite busy for a few months. Unfortunately, her personal life seems to be at a standstill - until her fortune unexpectedly changes. <br><br>After the funeral, Roe learns that Jane Engle, the deceased, has named her as heir to a rather substantial estate, which includes money, jewellery and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Knowing Jane, Roe concludes that the elderly woman has purposely left her a murder to solve. So she must identify the victim and figure out which one of Jane''s ordinary-seeming neighbours is a murderer - without putting herself in deadly danger . . .<br><br><b><font>''A heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James''s Cordelia Gray'' <i>Publishers Weekly</i></font></b></p>