
November 25, 1951 · 74 years old
Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled True Blood.

A librarian who hosts a murder mystery club at work finds people connected to the group are being killed off one by one in copycats of the true-crime books they discuss.

Librarian and real crime buff Aurora Roe Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns. She also never wanted to see him dead, but when he winds up murdered, she can't help but get involved.

Aurora and friends are off to a resort for a true crime convention. While there, they take part in a mystery dinner theater. But art imitates life when a fellow actor gets killed.

3 days after a film crew comes to town, the lead actress is murdered. The movie script was inspired by Aurora with a librarian/sleuth. Will Real Murders Club solve the crime before the police?

When her nephew and his roommate disappear, following the suspicious death of the roommate's girlfriend, Aurora investigates. Enlisting the help of her friends, she is also assisted by her new neighbor, college professor Nick Miller.

When Aurora finds Poppy murdered in her home, the "Real Crime" club members gather to discuss the case and end with four suspects and four motives.

Aurora's librarian, sleuth and bridesmaid at Lizzie's wedding, where Lizzie and Sally's rich aunt dies from poisoning. The will is a bad surprise for the son Cade. Aurora and the Real Murders Club investigate.

A taunting clue left for Aurora at a meeting begins a cat-and-mouse game between her and a mysterious criminal who commits increasingly serious crimes that leave the town rattled.

When one of Aida Teagarden's real estate clients is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter, Aurora sets out with her fiancé, Nick, to solve the murder.

Someone is killed at Aurora's twentieth high school reunion.

A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.

Just days before Aurora's wedding, a body is discovered, and Aurora fears that her father may be a suspect. She and Nick race to solve the cold case before they walk down the aisle.

While on a "pre-honeymoon" getaway, Aurora and Nick discover a body, and as they get closer to finding out what really happened, danger knocks on their doorstep.

When Sally's fiancé doesn't appear, her best friend Aurora asks Arthur to assist her look for him. Soon a body is found, everyone assumes it is Sally's tardy groom, but when it turns out to be someone else, he becomes the main sus...

When a student from Aurora's true crime literature class is found murdered outside the diner where she works, Aurora takes it upon herself to figure out the real culprit.

A drama-documentary telling the story of the celebrated gathering in Geneva, 1816 which led to the creation of both Frankenstein and the first modern vampire story.

When the owner of the diner where Aurora Teagarden works is suddenly killed, her new boyfriend becomes the primary suspect.