Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

My husband didn't believe Poppy was used so much in the dialogue. He watched the recording with me and we counted 149 Poppy's used in the writing. Who wrote this? We can't say she or her?

6/10 - not my favorite Roe mystery, but still worth the watch

Aurora "Ro" Teagarden is back, sporting an even shorter hairstyle than in the last installment of Aurora Teagarden Mysteries and she has purchased a new house..."that even has bookshelves in the kitchen"! Martin has gone back to the CIA, with Ro questioning if they were a good match, missing him and sharing news via the telephone.

Poppy has moved back in to town and is in one of Aida's condos. Home town hero Dustin is receiving lots of attention, much to Sally's dismay as he is taking all the limelight at the paper where Sally works. Poppy, the daughter of one of Aida's closest friends and someone Ro used to babysit, is Dustin's girlfriend and the star of her own YouTube channel with her friend Cara. Poppy is also working on an embroidery book and tv appearances.

Sally's cousin Lizzie is heavy in to wedding planning with Bubba, Aida's lawyer and coincidentally Poppy's lawyer. An awards dinner for reporter Dustin was like an assembly of the members of the True Crimes club. Apparently bride-to-be Lizzie is beyond jealous of the time that Poppy and Bubba are spending together and is jealous. Poppy doesn't arrive at the dinner, Sally and Ro are asked to go try to locate her...which is how they find her dead in her condo.

There is no end to the suspects in this mystery: Dustin...not wanting to loose her, jealous Lizzie, competitive partner Cara, Margaret, the step-mom?

For the first time, Sally takes advantage of her friendship with Ro asking her to wait on turning over evidence to the police...it is usually the other way around. It was nice to see that their friendship really is a two way street.

"A well written mystery is a work of art. The twists and turns of human nature and true crime is the very essence of life and death. It is all right here in these books."-Ro.

Cue the Real Murders Club and the murder board...

Aurora Teagarden mysteries is still one of my three favorite Hallmark mystery series along with Hannah Swensen's Murder She Baked and Mystery 101. Reap What You Sew does not disappoint, it has several twists and turns...ends with a bang and lots of hands to help move all of Aurora's boxes in to her new home.

This is a series that you should watch.

I liked this episode considerably more than the other reviewers here. It was a return to form in the sense that the plot centered on the town and residents of Lawrenceton, and the cast was mostly in place again, with the exception of Miranda Frigon (the character of Lynn Liggett-Smith).

Lexa Doig (Sally Allison) is still the MVP, IMO. She brings so much energy and humor to this show, it truly suffers when she is absent.

The murder itself was pleasantly complicated, with several possible suspects, who proved less than honest and trustworthy.

The writers, I thought, did a wonderful job of having Aurora defend her skeptical nature to her mother, Aida, who worried that Aurora's suspicious mind made it hard for people to get close to her. Later, in a beautifully written scene, the writers give us a scene between Sally and Aurora, where we witness how Aurora's true friends forgive and appreciate her suspicious, but open mind.

This entry felt so weird with the beloved character of John being written off the show, Jason and Macon being recasted and the film pretending that it didn't happen, and Martin being explained off there was just so many changes that the tone overall felt off. It's not really a negative thing, it just felt very different.

Story wise I thought it was thin, you wouldn't need to think hard who the killer is since they can be already figured out from the start. Despite the multiple obvious strays they try and throw your way it was just pretty obvious who had the stronger motive specially if you were paying attention to the body language of the characters which I assume are very much intentional.