Aurora Teagarden is a fictional character created by author

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. She is the protagonist of a series of eleven

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written from 1990 to 2017.

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began adapting the novels in 2014 for their original film series ''The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries'' with

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in the title role, part of the network’s "Mystery Wheel" umbrella series. In the first book of the series, twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (Roe) Teagarden is a professional

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at the Lawrenceton Public Library and belongs to the Real Murders Club, a group of

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enthusiasts who gather monthly to study famous crimes from the history of their

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town.

Aurora Teagarden book series

# ''Real Murders'' (1990) # ''A Bone to Pick'' (1992) # ''Three Bedrooms, One Corpse'' (1994) # ''The Julius House'' (1995) # ''Dead over Heels'' (1996) # "Deeply Dead" in ''Murder, They Wrote'' (1997) # ''A Fool and His Honey'' (1999) # ''Last Scene Alive'' (2002) # ''Poppy Done to Death'' (2003) # ''All the Little Liars'' (2016) # ''Sleep Like a Baby'' (2017)

TV adaptation

On June 4, 2014, author Charlaine Harris announced on her Facebook page that the Aurora Teagarden books would be adapted into a series of two-hour films, starring

and would air on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel. Bure announced her departure in April 2022, based on a new development deal with

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. In March 2023, Hallmark announced a prequel film with

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starring as a young Aurora Teagarden.

Characters

*Aurora "Roe" Teagarden (initially

, later

) a librarian in the small town of Lawrenceton, Washington (unlike the Georgia location of the novels) who runs the Real Murders Club. Married Nick Miller in ''Aurora Teagarden Til Death Do Us Part''. In ''Honeymoon, Honeymurder'' it is mentioned that her last name is now Miller. *Sally Allison (initially

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, later Kayla Heller) a reporter with the local newspaper, Aurora's best friend, and a member of the Real Murders Club *Aida Teagarden (

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) the town's real estate agent and Aurora's mother who disapproves of her daughter's involvement in solving murders *John Queensland ( Bruce Dawson)an active member of the Real Murders Club who shares Aurora's passion to solve murders and later starts dating Aurora's mother *Lynn Smith (

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)a detective with the homicide division of the police force (later chief) who often finds Aurora annoyingly in the middle of her investigations *Arthur Smith (initially Peter Benson, later Evan Roderick) Roe's best friend and a detective with the burglary division of the police force who is married to Lynn Smith and briefly dated Aurora. *Martin Bartell (

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) a former

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agent who moves to town, falls in love with Aurora, and later dates her. *Nick Miller ( Niall Matter) a college professor who lives opposite Aurora, and helps her with her investigations; Psychology Professor at College. Engaged to Roe as of ''Heist and Seek'', married Roe in ''Til Death Do Us Part''.

Cast

List of television films

Production and filming

The films in the series are shot largely in

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, while the waterfall seen in the opening sequence of many of the films is Chequagua Falls in the village of

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. And while the novels are set in the southeastern American state of Georgia, the TV-movies are set in the Pacific Northwestern state of Washington.

Broadcast

The films are broadcast in the United States on

. Channel 5 took over the broadcast rights for the series in the UK. Canada also airs the films on

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, which acquired all the Hallmark Movies.

Awards

''Til Death Do Us Part'' received two

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nominations at the

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in 2022, for Best Actress in a Television Movie (Bure) and Best Actor in a Television Movie (Matter).Brent Furdyk
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'', February 15, 2022.

References

External links

Author's site
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