2025 #51 – Homemaker (Prairie Nightingale #1)

By Ruthie Know and Annie Mare

Prairie Nightingale is a “professional homemaker” (her ex-husband is financing); with two teenage daughters and very few friends. She lost most of her “Mom Friends” because she is very good at pattern recognition and can’t let a question drop…. When one of those former friends dies Prairie begins to obsessively investigate and her carefully crafted home life begins to suffer – will Prairie find the killer?

I like mysteries that have either interesting characters or a really good plot. I did not find Prairie a compelling character (too much telling and not showing) and I stuck around to see the resolution… but it had a hard time keeping me motivated to finish. There were some interesting ideas, but they seemed either like wish fulfillment or not fully fleshed out. Not horrible, just not for me.

297 Pages

2.5/5

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