Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)

A librarian who hosts a murder mystery book club at work finds people connected to the group are being killed off one by one like crimes in some of the books they read, based on real murders.

Director:

Martin Wood

Writers:

Charlaine Harris (based on the "Aurora Teagarden" series by), Teena Booth

Stars:

Candace Cameron Bure, Lexa Doig, Marilu Henner

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Candace Cameron Bure	...	Aurora Teagarden
Lexa Doig	...	Sally Allison
Marilu Henner	...	Aida Teagarden
Robin Dunne	...	Robin Daniels
Bruce Dawson	...	John Queensland
Peter Benson	...	Arthur Smith
Miranda Frigon	...	Detective Lynn Liggett-Smith
Seann Gallagher	...	Bankston Waites
Anna Van Hooft	...	Melanie Clark
Julian Christopher	...	Lemaster Cane (as Julian D. Christopher)
Scott Lyster	...	Perry Dell
Lisa MacFadden	...	Dory
Colleen Winton	...	Mrs. Allison
Fred Henderson	...	Mr. Allison
Ellie Harvie	...	Lillian Tibbett

Storyline

The latest meeting of Lawrenceton librarian Aurora "Ro" Teagarden's real murders discussion club - where fellow member and Ro's best friend, newspaper reporter Sally Allison, had arranged for new Lawrenceton resident, Ro's favorite current mystery novelist and temporary university professor, Robin Daniels, to speak - is canceled after one of the club members is found bludgeoned to death in his/her home. The case is being led by Homicide Detective Lynn Liggett-Smith, the husband of fellow detective, and Ro's ex-boyfriend and ex-club member, Arthur Smith. There is no love lost between Lynn and Ro because of Ro's amateur sleuthing in past murder cases in town. Because of a telephone call to the meeting venue earlier in the evening referring to the Julia Wallace murder, the initial thought by Ro based on this circumstantial evidence is that the murderer is one of the club members. Julia Wallace's unsolved murder from 1934, the case which only the club members would have known was going to...

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Plot Keywords:

murder mystery | killer | library | weapon | copycat | 

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Genres:

Mystery

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Canada USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 July 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aurora Teagarden: Le club des amateurs de meurtres

Filming Locations:

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lighthouse Pictures, Muse Entertainment Enterprises

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the murder chart is rolled up, it was rolled from both ends making two tubular rolls, and is carried away like that. When it is pulled out of the car, it is just one large roll. Since they were in a hurry, it is more likely that it would not have been rerolled into a single tube.

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Goofs

Roe says that the murder of Julia Wallace occurred in 1934, but it actually happened in 1931. John also said the murders committed by Cordelia Botkin occurred in 1878, they actually happened in 1898. Roe mentioned Cordelia's victims were the wife of her former lover and her mother, but she actually killed the wife and her older sister. The chocolates sent to Aida were laced with rat poison, but Cordelia used arsenic.

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Connections

Followed by Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016)

User Reviews

perky overload

Candace Cameron Bure is Aurora Teagarden in "Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery" from 2015.

In this film, someone is using famous murders from the past to knock off people in the murder mystery club to which librarian Aurora belongs. She gets to work trying to solve the crimes, coming up against her nemesis, Detective Lynn Smith (Miranda Frigon), the wife of Aurora's former boyfriend. In the last film, Aurora delivered Lynn's baby so I don't see how it is she's still hostile.

Anyway, I didn't like this one - I thought the denouement was pretty dumb. I guess Candace Cameron Bure is an acquired taste. She's way too perky and childish for me. Marilu Henner plays her mother, and I believe the rest are Canadian actors.

I love all mysteries, which is why I'm checking out the Hallmark movies.