A Fool and His Honey

This is book #6 in the "Aurora Teagarden" series by Charlaine Harris. I have not read these in order but found a couple of them in the "Friends" shop at the public library and I have really enjoyed her other series with Lily Bard and Sookie Stackhouse. In this book, Aurora is married to Martin, and although she no longer needs to work, she is back to being a part-time librarian at the public library in the the Atlanta bedroom community of Lawrenceton. One afternoon she answers the front door and is met by Martin's niece, Regina, carrying her new baby, Hayden. Aurora and Martin have a dinner engagement that evening and when they return, they find, Regina missing and her husband, Craig, lying dead on the stairs leading to the garage apartment. The baby is found safely hidden under the bed in the apartment. Inside, they find a groggy Rory,  Craig's best friend, sleeping behind the sofa in the den. Unable to reach Regina's mother (Martin's sister, Barby), who is on a cruise, and determined to get the baby with someone who can take care of him, they head to Ohio to find Craig's adoptive parents. When that doesn't work out, they decide to stay a few days at Martin's family farm, where he had been letting Regina and Craig--and apparently, Rory--live. But the person who killed Craig, and perhaps kidnapped Regina, is so desperate to find the baby, that more people will die. As with all Harris' characters and books, no one is free of dark character flaws, nor are the endings always happy. Still, she is a good writer, the plots are tight, the characters and sense of place are well-developed. No regrets at reading this one.