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The Julius House
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Aurora Teagarden: Book 4

The Julius House (1995) (edit title/settings)

by Charlaine Harris (Author) (edit contributors)

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Love at first sight turns into newlywed bliss for former librarian Aurora Teagarden— until violence cuts the honeymoon short. Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But both the house and Martin come with murky pasts. And when Roe... read more

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Since she met her fiancé Martin Bartell, Roe Teagarden has never been happier. There's a difference in age and in background, but he seems to know exactly what she wants - like the Julius house.

Roe is thrilled when Martin gives her the house as a wedding present. She's a keen amateur... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Since she met her fiancé Martin Bartell, Roe Teagarden has never been happier. There's a difference in age and in background, but he seems to know exactly what she wants - like the Julius house.

Roe is thrilled when Martin gives her the house as a wedding present. She's a keen amateur sleuth, and she has always been intrigued by its infamous history: six years ago, the family who lived there disappeared, never to be seen again. As Roe throws herself into renovating the Julius house, her misgivings about Martin's rather murky past recede. But when Roe is attacked by an axe-wielding maniac, she realises that the secrets inside her four walls - and her brand-new marriage - could destroy her.

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  • Aurora Teagarden: "Roe" - Martin's new wife; A former librarian; Resident manager of her mother's townhouses; Is four-eleven and chesty; Wears round tortoiseshell glasses; Has long, wavy brown hair and round dark brown eyes; 31 years old; Former Real Murders Club member
  • Martin Bartell: Roe's new husband; Barrett's father; Barby's brother; Plant manager of Pan-Am Agra; Is five-ten with heavily muscled arms and chest; 45 years old; Has prematurely white hair that used to be black and the light brown eyes with a golden touch; A former Marine and Vietnam veteran
  • Barrett Bartell: Martin's son; 24 years old; Is out of college now; Wants to be an actor
  • Cindy Bartell: "C. H. Bartell" - Martin's ex-wife; Barrett's mother; Owns Cindy's Flowers; Has dark hair cut in a pixie haircut and large dark eyes; Is in her 40's; Is five-five, lean and wears bifocals; still lives in Martin's hometown in Ohio.
  • Barbara Lampton: "Barby" - Martin's sister; Is sleek and dark; 41 years old; Recently divorced; Her daughter is a sophomore in college
  • Regina Lampton: Martin's niece; Barby's daughter; Barrett's cousin; A sophomore at Kent state; A pretty, dark, plump, young woman
  • Aida Teagarden: "Aida Queensland" - "Aida Brattle" - Aurora's mother; John's wife; Owner of Select Realty; Looks like Lauren Bacall; Is five-four and elegant to her fingertips
  • John Queensland: Roe's stepfather; Aida's new husband; Avery & John David's father; A wealthy real-estate-rich man; Has creamy white hair; Former President of the Real Murders Club
  • Phil Teagarden: Aurora & Phillip's father; Betty Jo's husband; Aida's ex-husband; Is from Texas; Head of the advertising department for a newspaper
  • Phillip Teagarden: Roe's half-brother; 9 years old; Has perpetually tousled light brown hair and startlingly blue eyes; Lives in California
  • Betty Jo Teagarden: Roe's stepmother; Phillip's mother; Phil's second wife
  • T. C. Julius: Hope's husband; Charity's father; Disappeared one day, six years ago from his home along with his wife and daughter; Retired Army Sergeant; Was starting a carpentry business; Is five-eleven, 185 pounds, 46 years old, with graying brown hair and blue eyes
  • Hope Julius: "Hope Totino" - T. C.'s wife; Charity's mother; Disappeared one day, six years ago from her home along with her husband and daughter; Has dark brown hair, blue eyes, is five-four and 100 pounds; 42 years old; Suffering from ovarian cancer
  • Charity Julius: Hope & T. C.'s daughter; 15 years old; Disappeared one day, six years ago from her home along with her mother and father; Has blue eyes and shoulder-length brown hair; She is approximately five-four and 120 pounds; A sophomore at Lawrenceton High School
  • Melba Totino: Trustee for the Julius estate; Hope Julius' mother; Now lives in the Peachtree Leisure Apartments; Is five feet tall; Has dark brown eyes, sunk in wrinkles that are themselves blotched with age spots and wispy white hair
  • Eileen Norris: Aida's second-in-command at Select Realty; Terry Sternholtz's girlfriend; A dark-haired big woman; Is about 47 years old
  • Madeleine: Roe's gold tabby; Was Jane Engle's cat
  • Jane Engle: Roe's friendly acquaintance; Left her estate to Roe when she passed away; Was a retired school librarian who used to substitutes at both the school and the public libraries; Former Mortimer House board member; Wore her silver hair in a chignon; Was in her late 70's; Former Secretary of the Real Murders Club
  • Joseph Flocken: Martin's stepfather; A mean old man; A tall, spare man
  • Amina Day: "Amina Price" - Roe's best friend; Hugh's pregnant wife; A legal secretary; Lives in Houston; A slender brown-eyed freckle-faced extrovert with bottle blonde hair; Is five-five
  • Hugh Price: Amina's husband; Father-to-be; A lawyer
  • Mary Anne Bishop: Realtor in Corinth; A tall, husky blonde woman
  • Inez: Owns a farm in Corinth
  • Ruth: Works at Cindy's Flowers; An artificial blonde; Is in her 50's
  • Marnie Sands: Martin's secretary; Has dyed black hair
  • Shelby Youngblood: Martin's friend from Vietnam; Angel's husband; A dark-complected man with a heavy, piratical mustache, thick black hair and ropelike arm muscles; Is five-ten with blue eyes, dusty black, shaggy hair with only a few threads of gray, and his mustache is the kind that frames his mouth
  • Angel Youngblood: "Angel Dunn" - Shelby's wife; Is five-ten, muscular and sleek as a cheetah; Has pale blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes
  • Aubrey Scott: Episcopalian priest; Emily's boyfriend; Roe's ex-boyfriend; A widower; Is in his late 30's; Is six-two with dark graying hair, gray eyes and a neat mustache
  • Emily Kaye: Aubrey's girlfriend; Elizabeth's mother; A widow; A kindergarten teacher; Is five-four with golden brown hair
  • Elizabeth Kaye: Emily's daughter
  • John Henry: Roe's plumber
  • Sally Allison: Roe's friend; Paul's new wife; Perry's mother; Reporter for the Lawrenceton Sentinel; Is in her late 40's; Has permed curly bronze hair and tan eyes; Former Real Murders Club member
  • Paul Allison: Sally's new husband & ex-brother-in-law; Perry's uncle; Police Detective; Is in his late 40's; Has thinning brown hair, broad shoulders, sharp blue eyes and a suggestion of a gut
  • Perry Allison: Sally's son; Roe's former co-worker; Is mentally ill
  • Joe Nell Day: Amina's mother; Owns Great Day dress shop; A very attractive, fair woman; Is in her mid 40's
  • Sally Saxby: "Susu" - "Sally Hunter" - Roe's friend; Jimmy Hunter's wife; Little Jim & Bethany's mother; Is bright, blonde and plump
  • Little Jim Hunter: Susu & Jimmy's son; Bethany's brother
  • Bethany Hunter: Susu & Jimmy's daughter; Little Jim's sister
  • Jimmy Hunter: Sally Saxby's husband; Little Jim & Bethany's father; Owns a hardware store; Is broad shouldered and husky; Used to play high school football
  • Lizanne Buckley: "Elizabeth Anna" - "Lizanne Sewell" - Roe's friend; Bubba's new wife; A local beauty; Has shiny chestnut hair and liquid dark eyes
  • Bubba Sewell: "J. T. Sewell" - Lizanne's new husband; Has been divorced twice; A lawyer; A state representative; Has thinning light brown hair and small brown eyes
  • Linda Erhardt: Roe's friend
  • Patty Cloud: Office Manager at Select Realty; 25 years old
  • Melinda Queensland: John's daughter-in-law; Is pregnant
  • Lynn Liggett: "Lynn Smith" - Arthur's wife; Lorna's mother; Homicide Detective; A tall woman with straight, short brown hair
  • Arthur Smith: Roe's ex-boyfriend; Lynn's husband; Lorna's father; Burglary Detective; Is short and solid with coarse curly pale hair and pale blue eyes; 34-35 years old; Former Real Murders Club member
  • Lorna Smith: Arthur & Lynn's daughter
  • Eunice Dawson: "Neecy" - Lyndower Dawson's widow; A very old lady; Has wrinkles like cobwebs gridding her face, her eyes are the color of bleached denim and her thinning hair is snowy
  • Sarah May Zinsner: John L.'s widow; Sold her family home to the Julius'; Now lives in the Peachtree Leisure Apartments
  • John L. Zinsner: Sarah May's husband; Built the "Julius House" about 70 years ago
  • Duncan: Security guard at the Peachtree Leisure Apartments; A very large black man with a narrow mustache and brown eyes
  • Alicia Manigault: Mrs. Totino's sister; Lives in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans
  • Essie Nyland: T. C. Julius' aunt
  • Jimmy Dell Dunn: Martin's Army buddy; Angel's older brother
  • Mr. Dunn: Angel & Jimmy Dell's father
  • Harley Dimmoch: Charity's boyfriend from Columbia, SC; Now lives on the Gulf Coast; Works at a lumber yard; 24 years old; Has dark curly hair and blue eyes; Is tall and muscular
  • Parnell Engle: A local contractor; Jane's aging cousin; Leah's husband
  • Jack Burns: Detective Sergeant; Is married to a school teacher; Has two kids in college; A tall, heavy-set man with long Elvis sideburns and no-color hair
  • Mrs. Newman: An elderly Lawrenceton resident
  • Bill Anderson: Bettina's husband; One of Pan-Am Agra's division chiefs
  • Bettina Anderson: Bill's wife; A copper-haired, heavy woman in her mid-40's
  • Tonia Lee Greenhouse: "Tonia Lee Purdy" - Donnie's wife; Owned Greenhouse Realty; Was tall and thin with teased dark hair and bright makeup; Was murdered in the master bedroom of a house up for sale
  • Mandy Anderton: "Mandy Morley" - Roe's childhood acquaintance; Lives in L.A. with her husband
  • Washington Prescott: Parnell's former employee; Died of an aneurysm
  • Roosevelt: Security guard at the Peachtree Leisure Apartments
  • Padgett Lanier: Chief of police in Lawrenceton; Is sharp-nosed, tall, with thinning blond hair and nearly invisible eyelashes and eyebrows; Has a paunch and a mouth that is too small for his face
  • Jerry: Police photographer
  • Lanelda Coleman: Carl's wife; A very fat, very fair woman
  • Carl Coleman: Lanelda's husband
  • Kickapoo: The Coleman's Toy Manchester
  • Betty Lynn Sistrump: A woman in her 60's
  • Rene: A Cajun man with rough black hair in tousled waves
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First Sentence edit see section history

THE JULIUS FAMILY vanished six years before I married Martin Bartell.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 17

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 4 of 9 in Aurora Teagarden. (standard series)

Preceded by Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, and followed by Dead Over Heels.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Charlaine Harris (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 1, 1995
ISBN: 978-0684196404
Page Count: 224

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3558.A6427 J85 1995
  • Dewey: 813.54

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Sweet and Deadly
  • A Secret Rage
  • Shakespeare's Landlord
  • Grave Sight
  • Dead Until Dark

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Real Murders
  • A Bone to Pick
  • Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

Books Cited by This Book edit see section history

   
  • Stalker

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