Sleep, Baby, Sleep

by Jessica Auerbach

"This gripping story of a young mother searching for her kidnapped baby could have been lifted from recent headlines....Told with edgy intensity."
--Publishers Weekly
NO ONE BELIEVED HER....
Blond, twenty-one-year-old Sylvie swears to the police, the FBI, and her family that she left Cally, her six-week-old baby girl, alone for only five minutes. But in those five minutes Sylvie's life is shattered.
For Cally has vanished.
Suddenly the desperate young mother finds herself in a terrifying trap. No one will help her get her baby back, because no one believes Cally was kidnapped.
The police and FBI are sure she's hiding something. Sylvie's own mother thinks it is tragic proof that Sylvie, afflicted with attention deficit disorder and endlessly inept, should never have had a baby in the first place. Even the baby's father begins to suspect the worst.
Emotionally abandoned and accused on all sides, Sylvie realizes she alone must solve this crime, with virtually no clues, or lose her baby forever....
"Her best work yet, well written and engrossing."
--Library Journal

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published June 29, 1994

Reviews

[Mary Jo Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story, kind of predictable but I could definitely see something like this happening! Sylvie and Peter were not a match but he was able to persuade her to get what he wanted! Hope Sylie and Detective Martinson got together 😊

[Julie Dumont · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magnifique roman, la fin aurait pu être mieux.

[MaryAlice · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I read the jacket blurb on Jessica Auerbach's novel, Sleep, Baby, Sleep, I expected a fictionalized version of the Casey Anthony drama ~ baby disappears, futile search, mother suspected of murdering her child and hiding the body.

The blurb here at Goodreads gives away a piece of information that might spoil the first chapter. It takes Sylvie (the mother) a while to remember she left the baby alone when she ran to a nearby store.

One of the reasons the police suspect Sylvie of foul play is how she pulled stuff out of closets and drawers looking for her baby. Police think she purposely messed up the apartment to give appearance of a robbery.

Author Auerbach did a great job of describing that scene; the distraught Sylvie illogically shaking out towels, for instance, thinking perhaps the baby rolled out of the crib, making her way into the linen closet. I do believe any mother finding her baby missing would do likewise.

Anything else I say about the story would require spoiler alerts, so only add that Sleep, Baby, Sleep was a very good read.

[Fatma فاطمة · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this is a good book where i found an interesting plot, a lovely and a tempting story criticizing today's reality and reflecting what is happening in many families around the world.
I liked how they focused on social issues like the relations between married couples,seperated parents and their young children, between doctors and their patients and also about young children ailments.
However, i didn't like the ending, it was a little bit disappoiting. It was what's supposed to happen but it's very slight and lacks many details . It sounds like it was fast-written.
I was really disappointed, i was eager to know how they will capture the doctor Linder who must get punished for his wrong doings or how they will clear Rosie's name. Personally, i think that the author should have shown us how Rosie's family regained its stability and joy after the long and tiring journey that this family has gone through.
Anyway The overall feeling the reader can get from it is very good. I really enjoyed reading this book and I recommend it for everyone to read it.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another book I read that was also made into a lifetime television movie. Enjoy.