A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris

 

A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris, 262 pages

When Jane Engle dies, she bequeaths to Aurora Teagarden her entire estate... including a human skull hidden in the house. Roe finds herself desperately trying to figure out to whom the skull might belong to and why her elderly friend might have kept it. If Roe doesn't solve the mystery soon, heads may roll. 

Real Murders by Charlaine Harris

 Real Murders by Charlaine Harris, 290 pages

Aurora Teagarden is shocked to discover a member of the Real Murders that has been really murdered. When bodies continue to drop in the small southern community--murders based on historic, well-known murders--nearly every member of the Real Murders killed or implicated in a killing. Roe finds herself racing to discover who's behind the murder madness before it's too late. 

I loved Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard series and enjoyed the Southern Vampire novels, so I thought I'd give the Teagarden mysteries a go. The debut novel was pretty solid, but it didn't grab me as instantly as some of Harris' other offerings.