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Also by Ayelet Waldman:

Red Hook Road, July 2010
Hardcover
Bad Mother, May 2010
Hardcover
Bad Mother, May 2009
Hardcover
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep, July 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep, August 2006
Hardcover
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, January 2006
Hardcover
Murder Plays House, July 2004
Hardcover
Death Gets a Time-Out, June 2004
Paperback
A Playdate with Death, July 2003
Paperback
The Big Nap, July 2002
Paperback
Nursery Crimes, July 2001
Paperback

A Playdate with Death
Ayelet Waldman

Mommy-Track
Berkley Prime Crime
July 2003
Featuring: Juliet Applebaum
229 pages
ISBN: 0425191044
Paperback
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Mystery Cozy

No one ever said motherhood was a walk in the park, but Juliet Applebaum is doing her best. She's been showing up (more or less) on time to pick up her daughter from preschool. She's trying (in vain) to discourage her two- and- a-half-year-old son's interest in firearms. And between planning playdates and playing dress up, she's even managed to fit in some much-needed kid-free time, working out with a personal trainer at the local health club. It's going well. She's losing weight. She's even happy -- until her trainer commits suicide.

A charming, cheerful aspiring actor, Bobby Katz seemed to have it all -- and Juliet just can't believe he died at his own hand. She suspects that there's a much more sinister explanation -- and that it may lie with Bobby's parents, who never told him he was adopted. Or with his grieving fiancée, a recovering addict who just fell off the wagon. Or with his birth mother, a woman he had recently started to look for--who had gone to great lengths to ensure that she would never be found. Always up for a task that will get her out of the house, Juliet keeps running down secrets- -until, at last, she runs into the truth....

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