Murder Plays House — Ayelet Waldman

Location, location, location. Juliet Applebaum has heard it a gazillion times. But the public defender turned stay-at-home mom and sleuth is expecting another baby--and she needs more space for her growing brood. Now, between chasing clues and wiping little faces, Juliet will have to find time for yet another full-time job: house-hunting...

But if there were ever a bad time to find a house in L.A., it's now. No wonder Juliet is prepared to overlook a corpse in the bathtub of her otherwise dream house. To gain the owner's favor, Juliet promises him she'll find his sister's killer--although who in the world would want a washed-up, bit-part actress dead? Only in L.A., where some people
would kill for an affordable home, giving the term "buyer-unfriendly" a whole new meaning...