Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con

Cake tasting, 120 guests, and the big day looming Ro and Nick get embroiled in catching a con artist in "how to con a con" after one of Aida's clients ends up murdered. The con...get trusting clients to give up valuable information like social security numbers and then use the information to falsify documents like titles and borrow against their value.

Another great entry in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery series on Hallmark (one of my three favorite Hallmark series along with Hannah Swensen's Murder she Baked and Mystery 101). Wedding planning for Ro and Nick is intertwined with the Real Murders Club sleuthing to solve this mystery. Cue the murder board, which seems to be a mainstay in these Cody mystery dramas.

"The wedding should be about us, not our guests."-Nick

Philip helps Arthur with some police research, which puts him in the perfect location to hear police updates on the case that he is then able to share with the Real Murders Club. A trust-fund kid who lies about their Dad being alive, alibis that don't check out, and a murdered/dead man paying a bogus loan. Two murders both by strangulation with a cord...and the plot thickens.

I enjoyed the parallel scene with Lynne and the police reading the police report of the murder while the Real Murders Club reads a reporter's article about the crime. Fake name-fake loan. Aida may have the key to the mystery with the loan documents...something that lands Aida in the hospital and helps Aurora figure out what she really wants for her wedding.

"Ro and I have a theory"-Nick "oh! Have pigs begun to fly?"-Lynne

I have enjoyed every entry in this series and this is no exception. The characters are really well developed and the team is really tight. This is still a must see on my list.

When identity theft turns to murder in Lawrenceton, Washington you know that Aurora Teagarden and her true murders discussion group will get involved. Especially when it's one of her mother's clients that's involved.

When said client is murdered Candace Cameron Bure discovers that someone stole their identity and took out a home loan. As the real estate agent for the client Marilu Henner is attacked to get her copy of te loan.

Bure turns con artist setting up a sting to catch the perpetrator. It doesn't go quite to plan, but the villain is apprehended.

Even cousin Phillip gets involved. For once Dylan Sloane isn't the innocent suspect, but actively helps with the investigation

All this with the wedding of Bure and Niall Matter in the background.

Good mystery.

This movie was quite good, an intriguing mystery without any of the annoyances that plagued other movies. There were two main reasons I wasn't going to watch this. Sally Allison's whining and Aida Teagarden's narcissistic chauvinism.

Sally Allison didn't whine at all! Even when she was trying to get out of doing what Aurora wanted. It was refreshing! I'm so glad she is being portrayed as an adult instead of a whiny little kid.

Aida is no longer harassing Aurora to "get a man" and "dress to attract" and asking her fiancé to control her. She seems to have finally realised that her daughter is an independent adult who can make her own choices. She's still protective but is no longer treating Aurora as a child.

I'm assuming that this is down to the new director, if so I certainly hope he directs many more. This is how the series should be!

This one was just meh. The killer was obvious right away. It seemed rushed and almost thrown together. It's not horrible it's just not the best in the series. I'm wondering how people who have watched Aurora before are rating this one high and claiming it's one of the best. It's not.

I enjoy these movies but it makes me wonder...why would anyone want Aurora Teagarden as a girlfriend?

Nick is constantly in physical fights with the villains in these movies. Maybe as a professor, he enjoys this? Maybe not.

My thought is always this: one day they are both going to get killed by bad guys because they constantly put themselves in danger because of Roe's macabre obsession.

Sally has already been injured and left unconscious in a driveway in one movie and her mother was strangled and left for dead in this one.

When will enough be enough for Roe?