Sleep Like a Baby

Read: March 2018
Rating: 4/5 stars

Sleep Like a Baby was a bit slow to start with, but after the first chapter I quickly got caught up in the mystery and the small town politics that Harris does so well. I liked seeing Aurora and Robin as new parents as well as the callbacks to previous novels in the series, and I had no idea who the killer was until the big reveal at the end.
A lovely quick engaging read. I hope there's more to come!

Roe and Robin, discovering the joys of parenthood, are settling into a routine with baby Sophie. Like most best-laid plans, their shared baby-caring schedule hits a snag when Roe comes down with the flu just when Robin needs to leave for Nashville. But hiring nurse Virginia Mitchell to stay each night while Robin is away solves their problem.

That is, until Virginia vanishes and Roe finds a strange woman lying under the mimosa tree in the back yard . . . dead.

In this, the tenth Aurora Teagarden story, Roe finds herself caught up in motherhood: schedules, breastfeeding, and baby adoration. The mysteries of Virginia’s disappearance and the dead woman under the mimosa tree in the back yard unfold around the new normal for Roe and Robin. show more Believable characters populate this tale of disparate events that somehow come together in a tale of unseen connections, choices, and consequences. Readers will find this quick read, filled with the expected humor and some unexpected surprises, a worthy addition to the series.

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Roe and Robin, new parents to a beautiful baby girl are adorable. Their love for each other and their child is written so wonderfully. Roe, is sick and Robin will be out of town so he calls in the woman who helped care for Roe and the baby before. Roe is relieved she can sleep and know that all is taken care of while she recuperates. Well things just can't be that easy, nope. Roe wakes to her baby wailing, her care taker missing and there is a dead body in the backyard that is not the caretaker. Things get weird, strained and sometimes ugly from there.
I loved this edition to the series we really got to see their relationship at work and it's a good one. I love a good solid relationship. Phillip her 1/2 brother was a stand up guy who show more held more than his own. I am always happy after I finish a Charlaine Harris book. Now I wait for more. show less

Robin and Roe are new parents. Their newborn daughter, Sophie is proving to be a handful, Roe’s mother helps by paying for Virginia Mitchell, to come to their rescue for the first few weeks. Virginia is accommodating and steps in when Robin has to go out of town for work. Roe doesn’t want to worry Robin, so she keeps the fact that she is suffering from a severe case of the flu.

A couple of nights after Robin leaves Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying, and Virginia is nowhere to be found. Roe and her brother. Philip searches the house and the back yard. What they find is a dead woman, but it isn’t Virginia. She doesn’t recognize the mystery woman and doesn’t know what happened to Virginia. Is she alive, or like the unknown show more woman in the backyard, is her body out there waiting to be found?
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Series: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery - Book 10
Author: Charlaine Harris
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books

In Sleep Like a Baby, the latest installment of the #1 New York Times Best-selling Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series, Roe is a new mom with a dead woman in her backyard. She is sick and has a missing babysitter as well. Are the two events related or just coincidence? It is up to Roe to find out and quickly. The dead woman is ultimately revealed as Robin’s stalker and a woman who had tried to kill Roe in the past.

This is a heartwarming story of relationships, adventures in childcare and murder. The characters are well developed and have endearing personalities. Roe is a typical new mother, exhausted and proud, as well as worried. Readers with young children or new parents will have no problem relating to Roe and everything she is going through.

The murder investigation is not as detailed as some readers may like, and in truth would not be very realistic. Having one of the lead detectives in the investigation as an old friend of the main character is a scenario that would, in real life, rarely, if ever, occur. A true detective would excuse himself from the investigation as being biased. However, this aside, the characters are beautifully written with just the right amount of eccentricities to make them believable.

Ms. Harris has a smooth, comfortable writing style and can tell a story. The book was not as fast-paced as others in the series and got bogged down with all the new baby and relationship issues.
Unfortunately, the story seemed more about the new parents, their recent marriage, and Roe’s brother than about the murder and the victim. The main character, Roe did little to no investigation. The solution and unveiling of the killer was more of an accident than any real clues.

Sleep Like a Baby is a good story if the reader likes personal issues involved in their mysteries more than evidence or suspects and is interspersed with a family dynamic.



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Robin is away, Roe is out cold sleeping off a fever, there is a body in their back garden, and the nanny has disappeared.

Enjoyable but not up to the standard of the previous one.

SLEEP LIKE A BABY just didn't do much for me. I don't know what happened, but if this is the new Aurora Teagarden, I won't be reading much more.

There was a mystery in SLEEP LIKE A BABY, but my goodness was it boring getting to the answers. We get more information on how Aurora feeds, changes and takes care of her baby then solving any mystery that was supposed to be included in the story. I get it, she's a new mom, but if I wanted to read about the care and feeding of a baby, I would have picked up a parenting book.

There really isn't much more I could possibly say about SLEEP LIKE A BABY, because not much happened between the front and back cover. Yeah, I was disappointed too.

* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher show more in exchange for an honest review. show less

World of mystery is better with Aurora Teagarden in it. Always been a fan of Aurora and have been enjoying Hallmark adding her to their movies. Aurora is juggling all the new aspects of her life with a new husband, a half brother in residence and a beautiful baby girl. All details being new, dead bodies turning up in Aurora's yard remains a constant. Having an infant to care for and a husband out of town leaves little time for crime solving. All in all still a great read with Harris sharing more into our favorite characters' lives. "A copy of this book was provided to me by St. Martin's Press with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read and my comments here are my honest opinion."