Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
A Fool and His Honey
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Charlaine Harris
Class/Genre: Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Series: Aurora Teagarden # 6
St. Martin’s Minotaur, Sep 1999, $22.95, 214 pp.
Aurora Teagarden is very happy as she loves her new spouse Martin Bartell very much. She fully enjoys her work at the library and that her home just a mile outside Lawrenceton, Georgia is near her beloved mother’s residence, but far enough away for some relief.
However, today turns into an ugly nightmare for the contented Roe. It starts simply enough when the person delivering wood goes crazy due to someone planting an illegal drug within his bottle of acetaminophen. Things turn even nastier when Martin’s niece Regina arrives with an infant. No one even knew the lass was pregnant. A few hours later, Regina has vanished leaving behind her baby and her murdered spouse. Martin and Roe decide to track down their errant relative by following her trail to Ohio, not knowing that a killer awaits their findings.
A FOOL AND HIS HONEY, the fifth Teagarden amateur sleuth tale, is an intriguing blending of a Southern cozy within a dark mystery. Though the climax ends unhappily, the exciting story line will leave readers enthusiastically seeking the previous tales. Roe remains a wonderful character whose needs and desires add much depth to her persona. The support cast provides a realistic feel of desperation that makes the plot feel as if it actually has happened. Charlaine Harris makes reading fun.
Harriet Klausner
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