Sleep Like a Baby
Written by Charlaine Harris
Narrated by Thérèse Plummer
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About this audiobook
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. She has written four series, and two stand-alone novels, in addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and graphic novels (cowritten with Christopher Golden). Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many bestseller lists. They’re also the basis of the HBO series True Blood. Harris now lives in Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.
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Reviews for Sleep Like a Baby
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roe and Robin are getting used to being parents to their baby Sophie. Roe is breast feeding and her life revolves around feeding and caring for her new baby. When Robin, who is up for an Anthony award, goes to Bouchercon, Roe doesn't want to tell him that she is coming down with the flu. She calls in Virginia Mitchell who helped when she and Sophie were just home from the hospital. Virginia will be there at night while Robin is gone. Roe gets sicker and sicker but between Virginia and Roe's younger brother Philip they are surviving and Roe can be positive when Robin calls to check in. But one night, Roe wakes up to hear Sophie crying through the baby monitor. When she makes her way to Sophie there is no Virginia. She wakes Philip and their search of the house doesn't find Virginia anywhere. When they check the backyard, they see a body but it is not Virginia. When the woman in the yard is identified as Tracy Beal. She had stalked Robin and attempted to kill Roe. Both Robin and Roe thought that she was still in police custody. When a neighbor says he thought he saw Robin in the yard at the time of Tracy's death, he comes under police suspicion until he can prove he was at the convention. Besides wondering what happened to Virginia and wondering who killed Tracy, Roe's stepfather has a heart attack and is in the ICU. Her mother won't leave him and Roe has to fit in hospital visits to support her mother. Between a gift flower arrangement with no card, a missing sweater, missing keys, a stolen diaper bag, and a break-in, there are all sorts of clues for Roe to decipher. This was an entertaining cozy mystery and just perfect for fans of the Aurora Teagarden series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Robin 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 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thanks to @StMartinsPress for the #ARC of the newest book in the Aurora Teagarden Series. This one picks up in Roe's life and it wouldn't be Roe's life if there wasn't a murder and/or a mystery to solved. She's got the flu with a baby her hands are full. So with help she settles into a deep sleep only to be awoken to a dead body in the backyard and a MIA babysitter. Such a fun quick murder mystery read. Can't wait for more. #aurorateagarden
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5SLEEP 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 in exchange for an honest review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roe 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. 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.Recommended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roe 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 held more than his own. I am always happy after I finish a Charlaine Harris book. Now I wait for more.