Margie Peterson is a Mom, bumbling PI and soon to be ex wife.  She has problems on top of problems, but handles everything life throws her way.  She's trying to find the person embezzling PTA funds and find a murderer.  Margie goes undercover as a body waxer and factory worker trying to find a killer with Lucy Ricardo moments.  She also is trying to find a streaker with hilarious results.  

Her boss  has set her up a dating profile, much to Margie's chagrin.  She goes on two dates with disastrous yet hysterical outcomes.     Think aging jerk and a sock puppet named Marshmallow. Plus, getting stuck with the check.  

She loses her daughters fry phone, that ends up being held hostage, then she loses her daughters pig, Twinkles tying to catch the streaker.  To add insult to injury, she runs into her husbands new boyfriend while undercover at a waxing salon.  

This book is very entertaining, characters are very real life and down to earth.  I was hooked from page 1 and read it in one sitting.

I love the humor in these mystery books.  She makes me feel like we're all a work in progress with our own issues.  Fun read and mystery.

Mother's Little Helper is the hilarious third book in the Margie Peterson series written by author Karen MacInerney. Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas and Mercer for the advance copy.

Margie Peterson is a private eye with some of the same real-world problems most of us have. Don't read "Mother's Little Helper" if you want to read about a tough as nails spit-polished detective who always knows the answer. DO read it if you want to snort your soft drink out your nose when Single-Mom Margie tries to bring the miscreants to justice while dealing with dysfunctional people, in-laws, unpredictable kids and pets, and well meaning friends and relatives. I admit, sometimes it is all so realistic it aggravates me, but I still cheer on Margie to persevere in her own unique way. Mike Hammer couldn't handle it!