Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Aurora Teagarden (Candace Cameron-Bure) is a librarian in a small town that must have the highest per capita rate of homicide in the nation. In this episode, the body of a local realtor is found. Aurora runs an investigation parallel to the official police investigation (with somewhat better results, of course) to their chagrin.

Something seems to be missing from the crime scene, leading Aurora on a trail that uncovers several suspects.

This film has an underlying humor---despite imminent danger---which makes it entertaining.

The charme of Candace Cameron Bure and Yannick Bisson are the basic virtues of this episode. The adventures of Aurora Teagarden are less for me, being real crime ingredients but nice pretextes. A painting, two corpses, suspicions and the truth. Nothing special, correct in many points and the supporting characters as fair spices for cover not the most inspired cook. .

Candace Cameron Bure is back as Aurora Teagarden, this time trying to solve the murder of a real estate agent. She eventually figures out the murder ties into some stolen art and then it's just a matter of her (and us) figuring out which of the suspects is guilty. As with the previous Aurora Teagarden movies, I will remind anyone reading this review that I have not read the books this series is based on. So I don't have any preconceived ideas of how Aurora or any of the supporting characters should look or act. I enjoyed the previous two TV movies in this series, largely because of Candace Cameron Bure's irrepressible charm and likability. This third movie, however, I like a little less than the others.

For starters, while this is still a somewhat lighthearted murder mystery with a little bit of humor, this one seems to take itself more seriously than the last two. Some viewers will probably like this one more than the others for that very reason. But I wanted the quirky fun more than another humdrum murder mystery that anyone who's seen a couple of episodes of Murder, She Wrote could figure out relatively quickly. Another negative is the potential love interest in this one. It's the third male lead for Candace in as many movies and this one is a big step down from Robin Dunne's enjoyable character in the last film. This new guy, played by Yannick Bisson, is a middle-aged metrosexual with a One Direction haircut and way too much spray tan. His chemistry with Candace is tepid, to be charitable. Honestly the guy seems like he should be hosting a game show or an infomercial about dog grooming supplies.

On the plus side, Candace is Candace and while she doesn't have as many cute lines or moments in this one, her screen presence carries the movie. The adorable Lexa Doig returns as Aurora's friend but sadly gets little to do. The few scenes she does have are great, though. One note I would give Hallmark is that perhaps in future movies focus on these two solving crimes together rather than inserting another love interest who's just going to disappear anyway. Marilu Henner, Bruce Dawson, and Miranda Frigon all return from the previous movies and are all fun to watch. Also making an appearance is the clichéd gruff police captain I complained about in my Real Murders review. He shows up just to tell Aurora to stop meddling. Keep trying, Hallmark, but it's not going to get funny anytime soon. Finally, the town they filmed in is really beautiful. So big points for the scenery. Look, if you like Candace and like the other Aurora movies, you'll like this I think. If you didn't like the other ones, maybe this one will be more your cup of tea since it is a little different than the previous two.

This is the Aurora Teagarden mystery where Candace Cameron Bure meets her intended Yannick Bisson. She finds he's a man with quite a past and for a while the subject of the murder of two real estate agents.

In fact that's what drives Cameron in this murder mystery. She meets Bisson who is looking to buy a house and he's supposed to meet up with Marilu Henner, Roe's real estate agent mom. But Henner is running late and Cameron takes Bisson to the house where they find the body of another real estate agent.

Then at another site another female real estate agent is found dead. Roe's concern is that someone is targeting real estate agents of the female variety though nothing sexual is done.

In fact both murders were done to cover up another crime. What that was and who did it you have to watch for. But rest assured it's not Bisson.

I guess we have to wait and see if our mystery loving librarian and her man of mystery get hitched in another of these films in the series.

I somewhat enjoy the mysteries. I'm a bigger fan of the earlier ones than the more recent but that's mainly because I like the Aurora/Martin dynamic so it lost something for me when he left. This movie is his first and I don't see what he saw in Ro other than looks because she is so rude to him and self-centered even before he ends up on her suspect list. It was the other characters (note that I say characters not actors because I have no problem with Candace Cameron Bure, just with the way Ro is written here) that were strong enough to keep me watching. I especially appreciate Lynn, probably the least bumbling cop on these types of mysteries and, despite her dislike of Ro, still respects her capabilities. The mystery itself was good but they must've pissed off Ro's aunt at some point because no one would want their bridesmaids looking like that.