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This mystery book theme features stay-at-home moms and\/or housewives. I’m not sure if the term “housewife” is “P.C.”…. but it’s a term I grew up with and don’t find offensive… so I hope I don’t offend anyone…. since that is what I think of myself as being these days. With both of my children grown up now… I can hardly call myself a stay-at-home mom ….. They\u00a0don’t require me to lovingly adhere band-aids anymore!<\/p>\n
Nancy Atherton<\/a><\/strong>: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series<\/strong>…<\/p>\n Mollie Cox Bryan<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Cumberland Creek Mystery Series\u00a0<\/strong>has a stay-at-home scrap booking mom as its sleuth.<\/p>\n Jill Churchill<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0The Jane Jeffry Mystery Series <\/strong>features a Chicago housewife who along with having three children, also has time to sleuth.<\/p>\n Susan Rogers Cooper<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0The E. J. Pugh Mystery Series <\/strong>features a romance novelist housewife who solves crimes when not taking care of her family and home.<\/p>\n Anne George<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0The Southern Sisters Mystery Series <\/strong>is set in Alabama and features “Mouse,” the housewife part of the sister duo and her wildly different lovable sister “Sister”.<\/p>\n Dorothy Gilman<\/a><\/strong>: The Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series <\/strong>features a “mature” woman who, upon finding that she \u00a0is simply tired of the types of activities that are relegated to women of her age, becomes a globe-trotting spy.<\/p>\n Heather Horrocks<\/a><\/strong>: The\u00a0Bad Mothers Club Mystery Series<\/strong> stars a stay-at-home mom in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n Josi S. Kilpack<\/a><\/strong>: The Culinary Mystery Series <\/strong>features a stay-at-home mom\/sleuth. This series is also on the “No Profanity” list…<\/p>\n Leslie Meier<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0The Lucy Stone Mysteries Series <\/strong>is\u00a0a series which features a housewife, mother of\u00a0three,\u00a0along with different holidays… Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July, etc.<\/p>\n Diana Orgain<\/a><\/strong>: Maternal Instincts Mystery Series<\/strong> features a new mom\/sleuth…<\/p>\n Emilie Richards<\/a><\/strong>: Ministry is Murder Mystery Series<\/strong> features the wife of a minister…<\/p>\n Sara Rosett<\/a><\/strong>: The Mom Zone Mystery Series <\/strong>has an Air Force mom as the main sleuth…<\/p>\n Ayelet Waldman<\/a><\/strong>: The\u00a0Mommy Track Mystery Series <\/strong>features a lawyer who becomes a stay-at-home mom after the birth of her\u00a0daughter, and who is able to put her legal background to work while solving crimes.<\/p>\n Valerie Wolzien<\/a><\/strong>: The Susie Henshaw Mystery Series <\/strong>is full of crimes that need to be solved during different\u00a0holiday seasons.<\/p>\n Motherhood is Murder<\/a><\/strong>: Four Mysteries by Mary Daheim,\u00a0Carolyn Hart, Jane Isenberg, & Shirley Rousseau Murphy<\/p>\n Jeffrey Allen<\/strong><\/a>: Stay at Home Dad Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n Stay-at-Home Dad<\/strong>: Jeffrey Cohen<\/a><\/strong> (aka E. J. Copperman) writes the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series<\/strong> which features a Stay-at-Home Dad as its sleuth.<\/p>\n PS >>> I just added a few more sleuths to this list on my Mothers as Sleuths<\/a><\/strong>. They clearly overlap, although Kate Borden<\/a><\/strong>, Diane Mott Davidson<\/a><\/strong>, and Joan Hess<\/a><\/strong> all have working-outside-the-home mothers as their sleuths…<\/p>\nStay-at-Home Dads:<\/h4>\n