Aurora Teagarden to Return

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Years ago, Charlaine Harris, at left, put her librarian heroine Aurora Teagarden on vacation.

Harris had a few other ideas in mind she wanted to tackle.

Something about vampires and a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse. You may have heard of those novels. I think there was an HBO series, too? Something about True Blood.

Aurora’s vacation seemed permanent as Harris went on to other projects.

But Aurora will return. According to Publishers Weekly, Harris will do two more Aurora Teagarden novels for Minotaur. The last Teagarden, Poppy Done to Death, was released by Minotaur in 2003; the new novels are set for 2017 and 2018, according to Publishers Weekly.

I loved this series, which featured six novels, and applaud Aurora’s return. Aurora is a young librarian who regularly meets with a group who study unsolved crimes. Naturally, those crimes have a way of being solved during the course of the novels.

On the surface, the Aurora novels seem to be very light and cozy—even her name suggests that. But Harris had an uncanny knack for adding just the touch of needed darkness to these novels.

And now fans of Aurora will have a double dose of the librarian. The series is the basis for two made-for-TV movies—and I hope there will be more—on the Hallmark Channel and the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel.

Candace Cameron Bure stars as Aurora. A Bone to Pick, the first Aurora, aired in April, but you can catch it in reruns and on demand.

Oline Cogdill
2015-05-20 12:50:00