Beauty Sleep, Michaele G. Ballard
Beauty Sleep, Michaele G. Ballard
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Beauty Sleep
A Glamorous Mother, a Woman from Her Past, and Her Mysterious Death

Author: Michaele G. Ballard

Narrator: Isabella Tugman

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vibrance Press

Published: 03/20/2026


Synopsis

On April 10, 2001, Sandra Baker, a recently separated, forty-five-year-old mother of two, went for a facelift-and a new lease on life. But the nurse anesthetist was a woman from her past. And Sandra's future was in jeopardy...

Decades before, in a world of high school cliques and competition, Sally Jordan Hill had a crush on a guy whose attentions turned toward Sandra. Little did Sandra know how jealous Sally might have been...

Once Nurse Sally had Sandra in her care, she administered a lethal dose of the painkiller Fentanyl. Within hours, Sandra was brain dead-and her death was ruled a medical mistake. But earlier, Sally's coworkers heard her say this: That's the woman who stole my boyfriend in high school. And soon, a determined detective would find new clues to convince a judge that Sandra's death was no accident. ...

Beauty Sleep is the true story of glamor, jealousy ... and cold-blooded murder.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanine on March 25, 2012

I give up after page 123! The case itself was interesting, but I have the sneaking suspicion that the author merely used cut and paste from surgery textbooks and internet sites to fill out the book. When I find myself skipping entire chapters filled with guidelines from the American Association of P......more

Goodreads review by Donna on September 19, 2012

I don't think the book was all that well written, it leaves too much to be wondered, so why write it? And although not directly, it seems that the author makes a hit on Sally's faith, which I believe to be true by what she's quoted with saying. Did she do it? I don't know, and she's right in saying......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on January 02, 2018

This book contains plenty of interesting information, but as noted in most of the earler reviews, it is very repetitive and positively loaded with padding.......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne on October 20, 2009

Wasn't one of my better books to read. Gave a lot of information but not a lot of story. Just didn't really have a good story line.......more

Goodreads review by Lori on January 17, 2010

Pretty good book. Interesting to follow the case.......more