The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

These movies are something you want to watch on a Saturday or Sunday. It's a good movie without all the blood and violence in them. It's more about a story then violence. I especially like the addition of Yannick Bisson of Murdock Mysteries as Aurora's boyfriend. Let's hope the writers can keep him in and move that story forward. It shows Aurora maturing. It shows the story moving forward. Something TV shows lack these days.

21 dates in and Aurora and Martin's relationship is still on the rise. (Martin is counting their dates, because according to Aida they are not an official couple until they have been on 25 dates.)

Aurora finally buys her first house which is ten minutes out of town and infamously known as The Julius House, as it is involved in an old missing family case. When Aurora picks up the keys from Bubba Rankart, he shares a story about how the original owners boarded up a closet when the house was built. This of course sends Aurora on a mission to find it before she moves in...and find it she does, hastily boarded up with bloody rags left inside after finding a disturbing journal page from the daughter of the house.

"Ok wait...Is this Martin Bartell, former CIA agent, who told me he thinks we are alike and admired my suspicious mind?"-Aurora.

"Why do you have that look?"-Martin "What look?"-Aurora "Let's call it the thrill of the chase look."-Martin.

"Seems even sweet old ladies find you and your questions irritating."-Lynn

I love Aurora's new house, it is gorgeous! I also like the setting out in the countryside with fields on the horizon. This was a pretty interesting missing person mystery.

"I don't have a baseball bat or anything else I can hit him with. You know I told myself months ago that if I was going to keep hanging out with you that I need to invest in a baseball bat."-Sally

As a native Washingtonian I was happy to see actual stock footage of the real Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon...especially since the fictional Lawrenceton which is supposed to be in Washington State only gets stock footage from upstate New York...don't get me wrong I love the town and the waterfall they show.

I love the humorous stakeout banter between Ro and Martin. Still really enjoying the tight knit cast which works so well together in this series. I really appreciate that they keep the same actors. The friendship between Ro and Sally is wonderful...and the real murders club is fun and really gives this show a well rounded approach to mysteries.

Great twisted mystery and what really keeps this series in my top three favorites of mystery series on Hallmark along with Hannah Swensen's and Mystery 101. More romantic that some of the other films in the series. I think cosy mystery fans will love it!

Aurora Teagarden looking to spend some of the money she came into on finding a home. And despite her mum, Aida's reluctance she shows Aurora the Julius house, the location of a mystery as just a couple of years earlier the Julius family who lived there disappeared when one night they went for dinner with a friend and were never to be seen again. With Aurora buying the Julius house her journalist friend gets to do a follow up on the mystery and as Aurora looks into things the more involved she becomes.

An above average episode with plenty of mystery to sink ones teeth into. Aurora purchases a dream house - it's a dream because a family who once lived there disappeared. She gets a chance to poke around. She finds a doll with a message in it, and something else horrid in the roof. The acting is really good - the characters come to life, which is one of the appeals of this fine series.

I think this is the most sinister one so far after the copycat murders. It starts off pretty simple with a missing's person opening going back five years ago, and continues but is paced slower as the film goes on to give space for developing stories for character arcs. I do appreciate the continuity they're doing, makes it feel more like a TV show where I continue watching episodes instead of separate films. Clues and hints gets dropped from time to time which can make you guess the ending already but still drops the bomb on the audience, while not unexpected is a welcome final scene.

I love how cozy and easily digestible these Aurora Teagarden movies are, It's a good popcorn flick to pass time and be entertained.

The fourth film in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery film series made for Hallmark channel. Based on the book of the same name, the third director to helm a film in the franchise. I think it's all for good, because for me, this is the best one so far. Yep, I totally loved it, despite intentional storyline. On the other side, things have changed big and now it is a comfortably settled down series with pretty much everything compared to the earlier stage. Particularly, between the characters.

With the inherited wealth from an acquaintance, now Aurora is set to buy her own house. Her mother being a realtor, she finds a perfect house just outside the town. She carefully picked it because of more room for her book collections. But that leads her to involve in another mystery. The mystery of a family suddenly disappeared in a thin air five years ago. Being a viewer I said, not again. Because that was a too deliberate to kick start with what Aurora is good at.

Anyway, films need a start. Like there's saying in our local, 'leaving first is not matter, but coming first at the end matters'. Likewise, this film used such opening to a great level. Obviously Aurora finds a clue, to begin her own investigation. But the best part was she was not alone this time. As I've complained about a particular thing in the previous reviews, I think they had heard me. Well, this film was made and released before my reviews. So, basically, I felt happy to see what I wanted. A stabilised romance partner. The character Martin returned from the previous part. And hope he would continue in the next as well.

❝Only you would buy a house that turned out to be a crime scene.❞

Coming back to the story, they join hands in this latest probe. So they had to go places together, which nicely influenced the story to shape up. Because of handling the multiple situations at the same time. Then there's Sally, Aurora's best friend, a reporter, who I thought is a gap filler on the funny side. She had a few good moments, but not enough screenspace. I wish she gets more share, since she's a press which would benefit Aurora in one way or another to accomplish things.

The film also had a little time to focus on Aurora's mother's romance with her club member, John. He always backed Aurora for the common interest, but now caught between solving crime with her and romance with her mother. The cops too got a better understanding on her. Seems they have learnt she can't be stopped on her passion. Besides, it's helping them on what they had failed. In one of the scenes on the rooftop, when Aurora suddenly backed off, that was so perfect. If Martin had not been her behind, she would have fallen on the ground. That's funny! Anyway, the making says it was shot on the ground.

The whole gone family scenario was quite easily figurable. Only on theories, with a couple strong possibilities. But how it unfolded was really nicely done. I felt richness in the narration. Not just performances and production quality, but how it all shot, from scene to scene, frame to frame. This director is really good. The remaining two films in the series were also made by him, so I'm eager for that. Candace Cameron Bure was so good. Watching the installments, one after another, only making to like her more. Let's meet in the next part review. Meanwhile, check it out this film, and the whole series if you haven't already.

8/10