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Original Title:	Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
ISBN:	0373261772 (ISBN13: 9780373261772)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Aurora Teagarden #3
Characters:	Aurora "Roe" Teagarden
Setting:	United States of America Georgia(United States)

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden #3) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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I can't even make my rant funny. If you don't want to read my diatribe, discontinue reading. This is your warning.

While there are elements to this story that I do like, I'm greatly annoyed with two main points.

Firstly, if you run a realty company and stuff has been stolen from the houses you are selling for TWO YEARS, why do you not have better security of the keys? The keys are on a board in alphabetical order in the middle of the office. Seriously? Even when women start to be murdered in the houses you are selling, you don't think to have your realtors at least sign out the keys? Also, I don't know if it is just in my dad's experience or if it is the way things are done, but the only time valuable stuff is kept in the houses is when the owners still live there or the owner has passed away. In the case of the owner still living there, they are the ones who have access to the keys and the realtors only show the houses when the owners are home. SECURE THE KEYS. Otherwise, this story is not believable to me.

Secondly, the way African Americans are portrayed in this series makes me a little uncomfortable. The protagonist keeps pointing out the "blackness" of some of the secondary characters, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the plot, subplot, or red herrings. On one page she refers to a woman as "a black." Not even "a black person." Just "a black." On page 150, alone, there were references to Mackie standing out "like a chocolate drop on a wedding cake." Then, a paragraph down, "Mackie was always quiet in social settings, at least in one involving whites. For all I knew, he sang solo in the choir at the African Methodist Episcopal Church." While, in and of itself, these comments are not blatently racist, they're more like soft racism. What does it have to do with anything else in the story? Why are their comments like this peppered throughout the novel? Is she trying to show the segregation still inherent in the small-town South? If so, she does a horrible job at it. It reminds me of the ppl who start a statement with "I'm not a racist, but..." You can almost always count on their next statement being racist. Or the dude that says "I'm not a racist because there is a black guy I talk to at work." I'm just failing to see what Ms. Harris's point behind this is.

And I hate Aurora's taste in men. Aurora whines about her relationships constantly. She's 30 and not married. gasp! Her life obviously can't begin until she has a ring on her finger. Maybe once she gets hitched she'll do something with her fictional life besides whining and sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. Travel or something.

And the mystery is only meh, again. I knew who it was about half-way through the book.

This is not your best writing, Charlaine. With that being said, a friend loaned these books to me and I'll continue to read them...but I won't go out of my way to spend any money on getting copies for myself. Call it stubborness or stupidity or morbid curiosity (my friend says stubborness), but I'll read at least one more in this bloody annoying atrocious series. Surely it will get better?

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Title	:	Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden #3)
Author	:	Charlaine Harris
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	July 25th 1995 by Worldwide Library (first published March 23rd 1994)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Cozy Mystery. Crime

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Ratings: 3.81 From 17179 Users | 763 Reviews

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Sometimes it pays to read several books in a series before deciding not to read more. I didn't care much for the first book in this series, and thought I wouldn't read any more. However, I forgot about that and listened to the second book--now I'm hooked. Aurora Teagarden has become an interesting character that I want to follow. In this book she once again gets involved in a mystery as she finds a corpse in a house she is showing. Her love life takes an interesting turn, too; so I am looking

RATING: 3.5 STARSI recently watched the TV movie based on this book, and it made me want to continue the book series. I reread the first book on audio and just finished book three. While the general murder case and the killer are the same in both, everything else is quite different. I like that it is different as I like both the movies and the books. Roe's next love interest, Martin Bartell is described as a man's man with white hair and dark eyebrows (think Sam Elliott). And, in the movies he

I have no idea why I'm still reading this series. The characters are insufferable and while the mystery is interesting, it feels like an afterthought to Aurora's dating life and drama. By the time the killer was finally revealed, it did absolutely nothing for me because they were barely present in the book. Also, the way that black people are portrayed and talked about is quite horrifying. I've noticed this trend in the series and I am disgusted about it. I can't believe I'm saying this but

You know, I was all into this book... But the whole time, I am wondering, what the HELL happened to Robin?? In the last book in the series, Roe contemplated writing him a letter while he was in another country, telling him she was interested in seeing him again. But we never know if she did or not, cause the writer never said!! And she was dating the preacher at the time.Then, she meets a woman who will be perfect for the preacher, and just GIVES UP? And then assumes he's going to know, without

Aurora is a great character. She is smart, curious and a fantastic friend. So when a local realtor is found dead in a sale home, she cant help but try and solve the mystery.Added to this book is a new romance angle with the meeting of Aurora and Martin being an almost love at first sight but written in a way that had me laughing. (Not soppy or sugary sweet!) Martin is such an interesting character, but we really know nothing about him. Cant wait to find out more in book four :)

I pretty much forgot everything about the first two books in this series over the years, but didn't remember them overly impressive. Now this one I definitely enjoyed - Martin is a dreamboat and I loved the twists and turns on a personal level. The mystery is bizarre but Roe isn't actively solving or discovering anything, so it feels like a side story until the ending when a solution pops up. The book does have her house hunting and other stuff so some may see this as downtime, but Harris tends