title: Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 7)
author:  Charlaine Harris 
description: In her seventh cozy outing, librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is back to form after the downbeat A Fool and His Honey (1999). Roe and her once-significant other, true-crime writer Robin Crusoe, team up to untangle the results of their first foray into detection, Real Murders (1990), in which they caught the killer who'd been terrorizing the sleepy town of Lawrenceton, Ga. Now Robin has capitalized on the experience to write a bestselling novel, which is being made into a TV movie. Of course, it will be shot in Lawrenceton, and the whole town is delighted and eager to be involved, except for Roe. Oh, she's glad to see Robin again after his years in Hollywood, but she's not pleased that the star of the film is Emmy winner Celia Shaw, her successor in Robin's affection, now also cast off. When Roe's unfriendly stepson, Barrett, turns up with a part in the film, she hardens her heart until the second morning of the shoot, when Barrett knocks on Celia's trailer door (after having spent the night there) to find Celia dead, her bloody Emmy beside her. Now Roe feels sorry for Barrett. The first investigator on the scene is another old flame, Detective Arthur Smith. Then Roe herself is threatened first by a venomous letter, later by a Robin Crusoe fan who tries to kill her. Harris's style is well suited to the material, frothy and fast-paced with a wealth of witty descriptions: "Her voice was as crisp as if it'd been in the vegetable drawer overnight." Take a well-earned rest, Roe, don't lose Robin and return soon.<br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing
  for over thirty-five years. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, she is
  the author of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, basis for the Hallmark Movies &
  Mysteries Aurora Teagarden original movies; the Midnight, Texas series, now
  airing on NBC; the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series, basis for the HBO
  show True Blood; the Lily Bard mysteries; the Harper Connelly mysteries; and
  the co-author of the graphic novel trilogy Cemetery Girl. Harris now lives in
  Texas with her husband and two rescue dogs.
  
  Visit Charlaine Harris online at
  [charlaineharris.com](http://charlaineharris.com) and on Facebook as
  [CharlaineHarris](https://www.facebook.com/CharlaineHarris/).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [BY CHARLAINE HARRIS](index_split_003.html#filepos7086)
  
  Gunnie Rose Series
  
  An Easy Death
  
  A Longer Fall
  
  Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series
  
  Real Murders
  
  A Bone to Pick
  
  Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
  
  The Julius House
  
  Dead Over