While Charlaine Harris is best known for the mysteries she has set with paranormal characters, I have found that I am enjoying a lot of her other, regular, everyday mysteries as well. Aurora "Roe" Teagardenis a librarian in small-town Georgia. This is her second "cozy" mystery.

The story starts as Roe shares with the reader that she has been really busy as she has attended three weddings and a funeal. Ironically, some of the weddings have not been any more upbeat than the funeral. That is particualrly the case in which her former boyfriend is getting married, and the bride is very pregnant. Of course, she is not surprised that her often-divorced mother is finding her way down the aisle again.

The mystery starts with the funeral, which is for the former school librarian and elder spinster, Jane Engle. While at the funeral, Roe is told by Jane's lawyer that she is the sole heir of Jane's estate, and it it is by no means small. It includes a small home and a savings worth more than $500,000. The problem is the home comes with something more ... a human skull hidden away in a window seat.

The inheritance comes as quite a surprise. While they were both members of the Real Murders Club, a group of people who met to share their interest in historical true crimes, they were by no means close.

Roe finds herself slowly getting to know her new neighbors and is being drawn deeper into a number of disappearances that might be connected to her new found head. To make matters even worse, the neighborhood is being confronted with a series of break-ins. In each case, nothing is stolen, but the damage indicates that someone is clearly looking for something. Could it be the skull?

Roe, who has started to wonder if she will ever find love despite her buxom status, finds home when the local Episcopalian minister start to woe her. She is not sure she is ready to become a minister's wife, but she does know that she enjoys his company.

If only she knew where she stood with Robin Crusoe, the mystery writer/professor who was recently in town. She definitely felt a connection with him in the previous book, but fate seems to be keeping them apart.

I love these books. Cozies are a great type of mystery. In each, there is a small number of characters, and everyone (outside of the amateur detective) is a suspect. Roe and her stories are perfect example. Those looking for lighter mysteries will love this series.