Sleep Like a Baby: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

By Charlaine Harris

Book Overview

In Sleep Like a Baby, the next installment of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Charlaine Harris's Aurora Teagarden series, Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting.

With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu.

One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe's brother Philip helps her search the house and they happen upon a body outside... but it isn't Virginia's. Now, not only does she have a newborn to care for and a vulnerable new marriage to nurture, Roe also has to contend with a new puzzle -- who is this mystery woman dead in their backyard, and what happened to Virginia? This heart-pounding and exciting next installment of the Aurora Teagarden series will leave fans happy and hungry for more.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250090075
• ISBN13: 9781250090072
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Aurora's Big Snit

To establish my credentials, I've purchased & read everything Ms. Harris has written, several books more than once. I've read all the Aurora Teagarden books and enjoyed them and their different contexts. But finishing this was a slog. The new-mother Aurora is not only worn out but laid low with the flu. Her nanny disappears. A corpse appears in the backyard. In previous books, our heroine would now solve the case. But she is not only exhausted but is in a perpetual snit about everything, as in *everything*. Every single person with whom she comes into contact comes close to getting their head chewed off. Every law enforcement officer in town gets on her bad side and there is a continual cycle of exasperation, scowling and phone calls ending abruptly. Two African American characters come in for a lot of flak, which is unusual for Ms. Harris. All in all, I could not wait for this to limp to a close. And then Aurora announces that maybe another kid in on the cards. I suspect that is why the series had to end: everyone got together and ran her out of town.