A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Name: A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Released: 2015-01-11
Rating: 57
Cast: Candace Cameron Bure, Lexa Doig, Marilu Henner, Bruce Dawson, Peter Benson

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2015

1 hr. 24 min.

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Aurora Teagarden, librarian and proud member of the Real Murders Club, finds a human skull hidden in the window seat of her house.

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This was a good Hallmark cozy mystery. I prefer the book to the movie but really enjoyed this adaptation. The plot revolves around a cold case, which is a fun twist. The performances were average or above average.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/20/24

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A piece of puzzle and the murder mystery. Another year, another November, it's time to pick a new film series and I have chosen Aurora Teagarden. This is a fictional character based on the series of a crime novel published in the last three decades. The book series is not over yet. There are ten books total for now, but only six films were made so far. All of them a television production, made for Hallmark channel. They have chosen a second book to open the account for a new film franchise. I haven't read the original source, but I did not find any difficulties in the introduction of the characters. Once I watch the next film, which was actually based on the first book, I'll know the reason why. It all started off nice and slowly. Aurora is divorced young woman, works in a library. Decent life with one best friend, rent paying mother and people likes her. She's enthusiastic in unsolved crimes. A member in one of those kind of clubs where people gather and talk about stuffs. So it all begins when an old woman died and leaving behind all the wealth and property to her. They were never known well each other, but soon she finds there something behind it. Then she discovers a potential evident. And using that, she tries to find what actually happened and who did. The attempt fails, though she never gives up. Finally decides to go on an alternate way where the truth must come out. Does it all go accordingly! And how the rest of the story progresses were told with a twist. ?Reading it won't help you solve every mystery, but it might help with one or two.? There's a difference between cops solving crimes and ordinary people doing the same. Aurora is not one of those ordinary women. She just misplaced with her profession. Even her ex husband was a cop. That tells why they had married in the first place, even though they never truly loved one another. Despite her passion to solve the crimes, seems nobody around her encouraging enough. That's including her best friend and her own mother. Then there is no give-up attitude, that makes her to take wild decisions, not worrying about the consequences. Being a crime-mystery, they have included some nice moments. Overall decently written. Nothing like that you haven't seen them before. But interests enough to hook up for an 80 minute. Especially for a television quality, it passes. But, there's no clear picture what was the objective. Was it a murder-mystery or any other crime. Yes, the opening few seconds had given a big clue, but the real crime scene was never revealed in pictures like how it all happened. I was very curious to see it rather hear about it. That's why I watch films instead of reading books. It was just a first film, fairly familiarised the universe. Going to the second, surely I would find more comfortable. Especially anticipating other characters to contribute in the main story stream. Not everything's about the crime, I hope the romance part would be progressed well in the following films. As usual the television world is ruled by women, this is also a woman oriented tale. But for all ages. Just don't expect big, like Hollywood level. This little Canadian film definitely worth a watch. 7/10

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Cheesy with some not great acting, but enjoyable. The books are better.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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The series of Aurora Teagarden mysteries written by Charlaine Harris are among my favorites, so despite some of the changes made in bringing them to the screen I am glad to see them in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. If you are also a fan you may find it funny/odd/off-putting/etc that instead of being set outside Atlanta the site is set in Washington state (although characters named 'Bubba', 'Parnell, and other rather Southern sobriquets remain unchanged). With the casting of Candace Cameron Bure they 'clean up ' Aurora quite a bit (though in this first installment of the series they do go out of their way to reference her 'wild ' hair & unfashionable clothes which is inline with the book, although CCB looks impeccable from the word go... They drop this in future episodes. All in all, a fun, Hallmark version of Aurora Teagarden. Since I would never have guessed these mysteries would have even been considered for television (I'm sure we have Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood to thank) I am happy to have these fun light mysteries on HMM. Of course I would love to see Lily Bard on the screen but that might be difficult to lighten up sufficiently.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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These mystery movies are great!! Could watch it over so many times! They keep you interested and guessing who did it the whole time

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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I really enjoyed the beginning of the mystery franchise. The characters were enjoyable and the mystery was fun to solve.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Martin Wood

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Candace Cameron Bure

Aurora Teagarden

Lexa Doig

Sally Allison

Marilu Henner

Aida Teagarden

Bruce Dawson

John Queensland

Peter Benson

Arthur Smith

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Synopsis

Aurora Teagarden, librarian and proud member of the Real Murders Club, finds a human skull hidden in the window seat of her house.

Director: Martin Wood
Executive Producer: Candace Cameron Bure, Charlaine Harris, Jim Head, Michael Prupas, Joel S. Rice, Shawn Williamson, Martin Wood
Screenwriter: Teena Booth
Production Co: Muse Entertainment Enterprises, Head First Productions, Lighthouse Pictures, I Candy Productions
Rating: TV-G
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016

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