Murder Plays House

From the author of Bad Mother and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits--a mystery series featuring a Los Angeles mom... With a new arrival on the way, the Applebaum household is bursting at the seams. And Juliet is balancing clue-chasing and diaper-changing with a new task: house-hunting.Juliet loves her kids. She loves their dirty little faces and skinned knees. She loves the ridiculous and amazing things they say.
But when three-and-a-half year old Isaac evicts her husband and her from their own bed one night, love is the last thing on her mind. Juliet now recognizes the need for a few changes.starting with a bigger house. And when the new baby arrives, they'll welcome the extra space. But if there's ever a bad time to search for a new house in L. A., it's now. In a buyer-unfriendly real estate market, one practically has to kill to find an affordable home.
No wonder Juliet is prepared to over look a corpse on the grounds of her would-be dream house. To salve her conscience-and get her foot literally in the front door-she vows to find the killer of the homeowner's sister. The investigation leads her from the madness of house-hunting into a world of washed-up actors and canceled TV shows, a world more depraved than she could ever have imagined."[Juliet is] a lot like Elizabeth Peters' warm and humorous Amelia Peabody-a brassy, funny, quick-witted protagonist."-Houston ChronicleAyelet Waldman is the author of numerous books including Love and Treasure and the Mommy-Track Mysteries featuring Juliet Applebaum.
The series includes such titles as The Big Nap, A Playdate with Death, and Death Gets a Time-Out.