Nursery Crimes
When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track-to track down a murderer.Ayelet Waldman has given birth to a fresh new franchise with her Mommy-Track Mysteries. Juliet...
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When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track-to track down a murderer.Ayelet Waldman has given birth to a fresh new franchise with her Mommy-Track Mysteries. Juliet Applebaum is smart, fearless, and completely candid...Kinsey Millhone would approve. (Sue Grafton)Funny, clever, touching, original, wacky and wildly successful. (Carolyn G. Hart)Humorous...Juliet's voice is strong and appealing. (Publisher Weekly)Unique. (Tribune-Review Pittsburgh, PA)[Juliet is] a lot like Elizabeth Peters' warm and humorous Amelia Peabody-a brassy, funny, quick-witted protagonist. (Houston Chronicle)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425180006 (042518000X)
Publish date: July 1st 2001
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: A Mommy-Track Mystery (#1)
Juliet is pregnant with her second child and trying to get her first child into a prestigious pre-school. After being rejected, Juliet sees on the news the owner has been killed in a hit-and-run. Using the skills learned as a public defender, she attempts to find a murderer, if it is a murder. The c...
I give you the extensive notes I made about this earlier:"#1. The one about the preschool principal."Okay, sometimes it can be hard figuring out which book is which in a series, so that's why I noted #1. [Thanks, goodreads, for addressing that, by the way]. But "preschool principal"? Whatever. T...