Real Murders

This is the first in the "Aurora Teagarden" series by Charlaine Harris (also writes the Sookie Stackhouse, Lily Bard, and Harper Connelly series). Of particular appeal since Aurora is a librarian in a very small-town-feeling suburb of Atlanta. Real Murders is the name of the club to which Aurora belongs that discusses famous old murder cases. On this particular meeting night, however, she arrives to find one of the members has been murdered in the fashion of the case the group had planned to discuss. And that's just the beginning. The bodies continue to pile up--always group members or those close to them and always copying the details of a famous old murder case. Lily and her new neighbor, a famous mystery writer, can't help but go nosing around and consequently put themselves in the direct path of the killers. But I already told you it was a series, right? BTW, I really like the Lily Bard mysteries--set in the town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. I've been listening to them mostly on CD and haven't written about them yet, but they are very good. Lily has survived a traumatic kidnapping and torture/rape in her youth and now lives and works in a small town where no one knows her past--at least initially. Start with Shakespeare's Landlord.