Name: The Big Nap

Author: Ayelet Waldman
Year: 2001
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Mystery

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9780425184523
0425184528
Smart, witty mystery from the author of Bad Mother and Love and Treasure...'€œJuliet Applebaum is smart, fearless, and completely candid about life as a full-time mom with a penchant for part-time detective work.'€'€”Sue Grafton Ever since her four-month-old son was born, Juliet hasn'€™t slept for more than fifteen minutes at a stretch. (Has she given birth to some sort of mutant vampire? She'€™s beginning to wonder.) It'€™s been ages since she took her three-year-old daughter to the park. (Just one more reason why she'€™s a front-runner for the '€œWorst Mother of the Year'€ award.) Her workaholic husband is spending way too much time with his perky, oh-so-pretty producing partner. (Juliet'€™s sure her own post-pregnancy pounds are at least partly to blame.) She'€™s started answering the door topless. (Don'€™t even ask.) And now her son'€™s babysitter'€”a beautiful young Chasidic woman'€”has vanished. Juliet can'€™t help wondering if Fraydle was fleeing something even scarier than her screaming, squalling charge. Like her upcoming arranged marriage, maybe? It'€™s certainly possible. Especially since Juliet saw her furtively chatting with a non-Chasidic man shortly before she disappeared. Or perhaps something much more sinister has occurred. Why else would Fraydle'€™s family be so reluctant to call in the police? To find out the truth, Juliet, with her over-tired kids in tow, will have to travel from her havoc-filled home in Los Angeles to a Chasidic encalve in Brooklyn. In search of answers. In pursuit of justice. And in desperate need of a big, long nap'€¦ Ayelet Waldman is the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and other acclaimed works of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as the Mommy-Track Mysteries, including such titles as Nursery Crimes and A Playdate with Death.
This book is part of the "A Mommy-Track Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Bye-Bye, Black Sheep"
First published in 2006
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"The Cradle Robbers"
First published in 2005
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"Murder Plays House"
First published in 2004
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"Death Gets a Time-Out"
First published in 2003
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"A Playdate with Death"
First published in 2002
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"Nursery Crimes"
First published in 2000
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