Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted him dead - especially not dropped from a plane right into her backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, ranging from peculiar (her cat mysteriously gains a pink ribbon) to violent (her assistant at the library is attacked) to deadly (her former lover is stabbed), she must decipher the message in the madness before it's too late. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.