This book was so much fun to read! Charlaine Harris is one of my all time favorite authors. I absolutely love this series. Aurora's real life thoughts and real life emotions and real life conflicts are so enjoyable to read. I thought I had the ending all figured out but I was way off. It makes perfect sense now that Aurora has explained it. I'm so glad she's back.

Aurora Teagarden and I are old friends and I was happy to receive an ARC of her latest adventure, Sleep Like a Baby, from Netgalley. Like all cozy heroines, Aurora has the unfortunate habit of finding dead bodies every year or two. Her investigations, however, while fraught with danger, are balanced by her likeability, her vulnerability, and Charlaine Harris' ability to make the reader feel that they'd react in much the same way in the extraordinary situations that Aurora finds herself in. I must admit, that as a librarian, I came into the series ready to like this part-time librarian.

In this entry, new mom Aurora finds herself bed-ridden with the flu, her baby nurse missing, and a dead woman in the back yard. Who is the dead woman, what happened to the baby nurse, and what does all of this have to do with Aurora and mystery writer husband Robin Crusoe? As well as an enjoyable and absorbing mystery, the book deals with the ups and downs of a (relatively) new marriage and the ways that Aurora and Robin learn to deal with each other. The love is evident and nice to see in a cozy--a genre in which marriage and children usually spell doom for future adventures. I hope this isn't true for Aurora. I would miss her and her fellow denizens of Lawrenceton, Georgia, way too much.

Full Disclosure--Net Gallery and the publisher provided me with a digital ARC of this book. This is my honest review.

Long before I fell in love with the Sookie Stackhouse series (and liked it's reinterpretation as True Blood after I got over the shock) I enjoyed this series. I still like Roe, but this book was not the strongest in the series. I give it a like rating because I still enjoyed it and read it in one sitting, but I would not recommend it to anyone looking for a strong mystery. There is far, far too much baby and family stuff with the mystery a small part of the book. The beginning was very abrupt and the ending was also not the type I like, it was just sad.

I give Harris full marks for the realism she writes (Roe's mental and physical reactions to motherhood), though Roe's illness being over in 2-3 days wasn't an example of that.

I receive my copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

I was so glad I had the chance to read this book. I love this series. The mysteries are always interesting and this one didn't disappoint me. I was sorry that Roe gave up her library job, because that was part of the excitement for me. But I'm still looking forward to the next one.

Aurora Teagarden makes me happy. Solid mysteries with likable characters. Plus, these characters have flaws and evolve with each book.

Aurora and Robin are doing less sleuthing than normal--they’re parents of a newborn and are just surviving--so the murder comes to them, errr, to their backyard.

I finished this installment in one sitting, staying up until the wee hours of the morning.

Thanks, Harris, I needed this one.

Annnnnnd I am hoping there will be at least one more??