Ayelet Waldman Books in Order

Bored with playdates and very pregnant, former public defender Juliet Applebaum looks into a preschool principal's deadly hit-and-run. What starts as school-admissions madness turns into a murder case, with Juliet pushing past suburban pettiness to find the real motive.

Sleep-deprived and barely keeping up, Juliet starts investigating when her Hasidic babysitter disappears. The case pulls her from chaotic Los Angeles motherhood to Brooklyn, where questions about faith, family, and danger keep multiplying.

A personal trainer's apparent suicide does not convince Juliet, who suspects murder instead. Her search through adoption secrets, family lies, and Hollywood strivers gives this cozy setup a darker edge without losing the series' comic snap.

Olivia's foolish brush with a drug deal leaves her facing prosecution and nowhere to turn but her emotionally distant mother, Elaine. Waldman uses that crisis to dig into forgiveness, maternal failure, and how far a parent will go for a child.

When actress Lilly Green asks Juliet to clear her brother of murder, Juliet takes the case as another escape from school runs and babysitters. The deeper she digs, the more she wonders whether Lilly herself is hiding something.

Pregnant, overwhelmed, and desperate for more space, Juliet goes house-hunting in Los Angeles and finds a corpse on the property. Her attempt to solve the killing pulls her into real estate madness, show business leftovers, and one more messy family secret.

Juliet's new case starts with an imprisoned mother searching for the son taken from her, then turns deadly inside prison walls. Following the boy means untangling murder, foster care, and a conspiracy that reaches far beyond one inmate.

Juliet Applebaum and her growing detective business take on a grim case when a client asks for help after her sister, a sex worker struggling with addiction, turns up dead. The series stays witty, but the stakes are sharper here.

Emilia Greenleaf is grieving the death of her newborn while trying to build a life with her husband and difficult young stepson. Waldman mixes pain, sharp humor, and blunt honesty in a novel about marriage, loss, and imperfect love.

Waldman turns the pressure of modern motherhood into a funny, bracing memoir. Writing about guilt, marriage, work, and impossible expectations, she pushes back against the idea that there is one right way to be a good mother.

After a wedding-day tragedy shatters two Maine families, grief reshapes marriages, friendships, and the lives of the younger siblings left behind. Over several summers, Waldman traces how love and loss can pull people apart, then back together.

Spanning Europe, Israel, and the present day, this novel follows the trail of a necklace linked to the Hungarian Gold Train. A wartime love story, family secret, and search for restitution slowly fold into one another.

This slim collection gathers quotations attributed to Waldman on motherhood, marriage, feminism, writing, and everyday life. It offers a quick sampler of the frank, questioning voice readers know from her fiction and essays.

In this candid memoir, Waldman spends a month microdosing LSD to manage a severe mood disorder after other treatments fail. Part personal diary, part report on drug policy and mental health, it follows one risky experiment and its effects on family life.

Coedited by Waldman, this collection gathers oral histories from women who have been imprisoned in the United States. Their stories of abuse, neglect, survival, and resistance turn policy into something personal and hard to ignore.

Chabon and Ayelet Waldman gather writers to bear witness to life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. The essays are varied, personal, and political, with human stories at the center.

Coedited with Ayelet Waldman, this anthology invites major writers to revisit landmark ACLU cases. The pieces blend legal history, politics, and personal reflection into a sharp look at civil liberties in America.

In nineteenth-century England, lady's maid Alice Lockey tries to engineer a match between her mistress and the man she loves's employer, hoping it will clear a path for their own future. The plan becomes a witty story about class, desire, and independence.