Aurora Teagarden : Un bébé sur les bras

The beloved cast of Aurora Teagarden is back. This series is loosely based on books by Charlaine Harris and has been one of my three favorite mystery series on Hallmark, along with Hannah Swensen and Mystery 101.

In this episode Martin's niece Regina shows up on Aurora's doorstep with a newborn baby in tow and unannounced. Having lost touch, Martin is thrilled to see her and when she announces she is going to stay a few days Aurora offers up her guest bedroom. After attending a party with Aida, they arrive back home to find Regina missing, the baby's father dead on the porch and a stranger named Rory in the closet. Luckily they find the baby safe and well in the bathtub...but the mysteries abound in finding Regina and the killer.

Martin and Aurora seem to be in a good place, but now they have the responsibility of taking care of a baby dumped on their lap...and unfortunately (in my opinion) Martin leaves that responsibility to Aurora while he races to find Regina.

There were some pretty cute scenes with the baby and both Aurora and Aida...but the funniest scenes were around Lillian and Aida fighting over baby time!

This was a solid entry in the series...but if I was Aurora I might be re-thinking who I am going to be raising my babies with. Fans of the series will enjoy this entry in the series which I highly recommend as a whole.

This character never does the smart thing. In every crisis she makes the most foolish moves. Like running out of a house after 2 of her companions are shot to chase a perp. She already made the mistake of leaving her phone in a car. Does she stop on her way out of the house to call authorities? No, she starts chasing.

Two things about this Aurora Teagarden story. First she spends minimal time at the library and none at all with her mystery book club. Secondly she makes several false starts in trying to figure this business out before she gets it right in the final half hour.

Candace Cameron Bure is back as our mystery solving librarian and her relationship with Yannick Bisson is going good and strong. But the two of them really play fast and loose with an obstruction of justice charge. In fact they conceal the presence of a person of interest in the case and get him shot later on because of it.

It all starts when an old friend of Bure's Sarah McKillip arrives with a husband and a baby and Bure agrees to put them up. Later on McKillip disappears, the husband is killed and she's left with the baby. And a mystery to solve.

It all has to do with black market babies and the intricate lengths people will go to avoid the lengthy adoption process.

But in the end Bisson and Bure decide that their babies will be done naturally.

We are back again with our librarian by day, and super sleuth by any time she finds it free to go investigate, Aurora Teagarden. This isn't one of the stories from the series that I really care about, it was ok, maybe lukewarm. I felt like plot was jumping around from wanting to add depth to Aurora as a character and having her own realization to the actual crime and mystery. While a lot of tv shows and movies do multitask like this, in this case it felt very half baked. There wasn't really a good resolution to it, it just happens and it felt very uninspired.

I do like though when the film itself is very self aware how ridiculous it is that dead bodies have been piling up around Aurora, the fact that Lynn called it flat out was funny.

Regina, the long-lost niece of Aurora's boyfriend, Martin, turns up with a baby. Before Martin has a chance to reconnect with Regina, she disappears leaving a dead husband, Craig, on Aurora's front porch and her baby, Hayden, hidden in Aurora's bathtub. Aurora and Martin's investigation leads them to Regina and Craig's home in the neighboring town of Corinth, where Craig's parents and Regina's neighbors express bewilderment when told of Regina's newborn baby. Aurora works on balancing her relationship with Martin with her efforts to solve the murder of the baby's father and the disappearance of his mother.

In first look at the storyline ( baby etc)I thought this would be a poor entry, but it's quite intricately plotted with enough twists and turns. It's a departure from a murder in traditional murder mystery fashion usually in this series. I found it great fun with some good humour such as Aida and the librarian arguing over who tends to the baby.