Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This Aurora Teagarden mystery finds out librarian sleuth looking to buy a house. The one she buys from Gabrielle Rose is the Julius House of the title. Made infamous by the fact the family who owned it a father, mother and daughter drove away in a car one night and just never came back. At least that's the legend of Julius House. Gabrielle Rose is the grandmother who inherited the place.But demolishing legends in the process of solving mysteries is the Aurora Teagarden specialty. Just around the house she finds bits and pieces and one clinchable clue that makes this missing persons case a homicide.It's a tale of greed, corruption, and young love run a muck. Note Yannick Bisson as Aurora's steady is really engaged in this mystery, Marilu Henner as Aurora's mother and Bruce Dawson member of Candace Cameron Bure's mystery club seem to hit a rocky patch in their relationship.The one I would not want to be is Miranda Frigon who was on the original missing persons case. She definitely could get busted back to uniform for the boo boo she made.One of the best of the series.

Not bad for "G" rated stuff. Wondering when they are going to dress Aurora's character like an adult instead of a 12 yr old. The dresses in most of the movies are juvenile, shorter than her juvenile coats . The hair looks like it has been thru a mixer and way beyond looking like an adult should. Same with the purses and shoes. Totally not adult looking nor are the lines she is given to speak. For someone allegedly with a masters in library science, she looks and acts like a teenager. For me, Henner is not who I would have put in as the mother. Her superiority complex is beyond getting old . The new "boyfriend" is a lot more mature than Auroras character and seems out of place in that dinky backwards town. He can do much better that that. Falling for someone as very unsophisticated as Aurora is funny. The movies are good escapism but fear not, not even close to competing with anything else on TV. It finally hit me where I had seen the "reporter" friend of Aurora's..she is the girl in the Toyota commercials. She also doesn't come across as too bright for a reporter. Guess its the small , backwards town ambiance

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.

My wife conned me into watching this because it has Yannick Bisson in it and I am a huge fan of Murdoch Mysteries. I gather that somehow this entry is part of a series based on the writings of Charlaine Harries who writes the Aurora Teagarden books along with a number of others. She must have those who like these Hallmark entries but based on The Julius House, I am not one of them. My major complaint is acting and chemistry. Is seems that either these are some of the worst actors ever or they are just phoning in their performances. And their is zip chemistry among this crew. Marilu Henner and Candace Cameron Bure are supposed to be mother daughter but they don't seem to muster any feelings for one another. And Yannick Bisson and Candace Cameron Bure who are supposed to be dating are about as romantic as wood. Even the mystery is dull. I didn't care who the missing family was or why they were missing. Even after we get the answers, I didn't care. Obviously there is an audience out there for this series, but why is the real mystery.