"Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray." - Publishers Weekly. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is your typical librarian: thick coke-bottle glasses long brown hair sensible librarian-like clothes single lives in a small town. She doesn't have much of a social life and has resigned herself to having her Saturday nights free. But once a month she meets with her fellow murder–mystery enthusiasts to discuss a real murder. This Friday it is Roe's turn and she has prepared a riveting speech for the Real Murders Society of Lawrenceton Georgia. But a playful murderer steals the show with a real life re-enactment of the case Aurora has chosen to present casting one of the club members as the victim. And it soon becomes evident that the murderer has chosen Roe as his next victim. That leaves her no option but to scour the chronicles of old murders and the real settings of the crimes for the clues that will crack the case. All she has to do is stay one step ahead of a killer.