Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-425-17949-9
Juliet Applebaum, L.A. public defender turned stay-at-home mom, returns for a second amusing but poignant adventure mixing child-rearing and sleuthing (after 2000's somewhat weaker Nursery Crimes, which was marred by a clichéd ending). Four-
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-425-18473-8
The challenges of motherhood don't hold a candle to the challenge of sleuthing for Juliet Applebaum, the heroine of Waldman's third sparkling "mommy-track" mystery (Nursery Crimes; The Big Nap). Once an L.A. assistant district...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-425-19014-2
The fourth mystery in Waldman's Mommy-Track series (after 2002's A Playdate with Death) gets off to a slow start, but repays reader perseverance in spades. Harried mother and PI Juliet Applebaum secures a new case from her old friend, film...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Sourcebooks Landmark $24 (335p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0096-0
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.DAUGHTER'S KEEPERAyelet Waldman. Sourcebooks...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-19635-9
In Waldman's fifth well-plotted Mommy-Track mystery (after 2003's Death Gets a Time-Out
), PI and former public defender Juliet Applebaum, with another baby on the way, needs a new home almost as badly as she and her partner in her PI...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-425-20284-5
Juliet Applebaum, ex-public defender and "self-employed mother," juggles the demands of her oversized four-month-old daughter and a case involving a female prisoner in her engrossing sixth outing (after 2004's Murder Plays House
)....
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-385-51530-6
How a five-year-old manages to make the adults in his life hew to the love he holds for them is the sweet treat in this honest, brutal, bitterly funny slice of life. When Emelia's day-old daughter, Isabel, succumbs to SIDS, her own life stalls....
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-425-21018-5
Juliet Applebaum, a PI and mother of three. continues her balancing act in Waldman's smart seventh Mommy-Track mystery (after 2005's The Cradle Robbers
). When Heavenly, an African-American transvestite, shows up in tears at the office...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Broadway $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-52793-4
Having aroused the ire of righteous mothers with her confession to loving her husband more than her children, Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
) offers similar boldface opinions in 18 rather defensive essays. The mother of four, living in
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Ayelet Waldman, Author . Doubleday $25.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-385-51786-7
Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
) delivers a dense story of irreparable loss that tracks two families across four summers. After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are...
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Ayelet Waldman, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-425-17469-2
Former federal prosecutor turned stay-at-home mom Waldman debuts with a humorous tale featuring a sleuth much like her creator. Juliet Applebaum gives up her job as a federal public defender to stay home with her small daughter, Ruby. Her...
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Ayelet Waldman. Knopf, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-53354-6
This lush, multigenerational tale by Waldman (Bad Mother) of loves lost and found begins at a portentous historical starting point: the so-called Hungarian Gold Train. Waldman traces the path of a single pendant taken from this notorious shipment of
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Ayelet Waldman. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-451-49409-2
Novelist and essayist Waldman (Bad Mother)—mother of four, married to another high-profile writer (Michael Chabon)—worked as a federal public defender and taught at prestigious law schools. After struggling with mood swings and bouts of depression,...
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Edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon. Harper Perennial, $16.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-243178-3
Authors Waldman and Chabon, together with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza, have compiled a hefty volume of essays about life in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The...
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