Life is pretty typical for stay-at-home mom Margie Peterson. She's got two young kids, an attorney husband who never quite makes partner, and a fixer-upper house she doesn't have the money to fix. Then the first preschool tuition bill hits the mailbox, and Margie realizes it's time to take out a second mortgage... or get a job.Margie's mother-in-law wants her to join the Junior League, her mother thinks her aura needs adjusting, and her husband wants her to sell Tupperware. But she longs for something more interesting than washing dishes at charity teas or selling plastic lids and bowls.When a seedy PI agency hires her as a part-time private investigator, Margie finds herself tracking an obese plumbing salesman with a penchant for Saran Wrap and bargain-basement hookers. But Margie's no Sam Spade. By the end of her first day, she's totaled her minivan, submitted a picture of a naked man in Saran Wrap to the preschool newsletter, and accidentally participated in a drag queen contest. When she finds a dead transvestite in the "Princesses'" room of a gay bar, she decides it may be time to hang up her hat and start planning Tupperware parties. Then she picks up the drag queen's phone... and discovers the last call the dead man made was to Margie's own house."The minivan and her daughter's fry phone were the first casualties when Margie Peterson took on a part-time job for Peachtree Investigations. In Mother's Day Out, Karen MacInerney has delivered a laugh-out-loud, wacky and hysterical romp featuring an ordinary car-pool mom who finds herself walking on the wild side, coming face-to-face with plastic-wrapped cheaters, a murdered transvestite, and her own husband's secrets."–- Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey and Granny Apples mysteries