Mommy Track 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.

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.