Mother's Day Out

The Margie Peterson Mysteries, Book 1

By: Karen MacInerney

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Margie Peterson is a typical stay-at-home mom until she trades dishes for detective work to become Austin’s least-likely PI. Soon she’s knee-deep in cheating husbands, transvestites, and trouble in a laugh-out-loud new mystery from award-winning author Karen MacInerney.

With a husband who works long hours trying to make partner and two rambunctious kids that are running her ragged, Margie Peterson is like any other worn-out suburban mom. When she decides to take a job as a PI for a seedy local detective agency, everything changes. It doesn’t take long for Margie to get in over her head: Her first day on the job she totals her minivan, mistakenly enters a drag contest, and winds up in the bathroom with a dead transvestite. But when Margie finds her home number in the victim’s phone, things really start to get interesting.

©2014 Karen MacInerney (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved

Perfect!

Excellent and Smartly Quirky main character. If you like Steph Plum or Sookie Stackhouse you'll find this one a great beginning to what I hope will be a great series. The Narrater "Chris Dukehart" did a wonderful job. I patiently await more...

Awesome new series

Margie is naive, but sometimes it’s the naive ones that don’t realize that they can’t do it, and end up doing a spectacular job!

Great new series!!!

Would you consider the audio edition of Mother's Day Out to be better than the print version?

Yes.

What other book might you compare Mother's Day Out to and why?

Stephanie Plum series

Which scene was your favorite?

All the scenes with Margie and her BFF

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Can't wait for the next one!!!

Fun but forgettable

Fun, but it won’t stay with you. A read it once and forget it type of book.

It had my attention from the start

Who was your favorite character and why?

Margie was my favorite character because she is so humble.

What about Cris Dukehart’s performance did you like?

Her voice fits the main personality well.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Twisted

That was fun!

Yet another bargain book success! Never heard of either the book or the author, but decided to roll the dice and take a chance -- and once again, that was a good idea.

It's funny, they say there are only four basic plots in all of fiction, but I'm not sure how that accounts for this one. As the story evolves, a pretty unique situation reveals itself -- although in today's crazy world I suppose it isn't quite as unique as I think it is. Even so, this was like nothing I'd ever read before. I loved the freshness of the whole thing.

Karen MacInerny has created interesting, likable characters and structured a truly unique plot but what makes this book a real delight is how funny it is. One of the side-stories deals with how Margie, formerly a stay at home mother, now a new, untrained, part-time private eye, is forced to deal with the head of her daughter's day care center. My kids are grown now, but it seems to me I had some of those same inane discussions with a similar Witch in Power when they were little -- you know, the "Solve (this issue with your child) by tomorrow, or we're expelling her." No, my daughter hadn't decided that she was a dog -- with all that entails, including eating on the floor, barking, biting, etc -- but I seem to recall similar disputes and similar chaos. And I also recall spending some evenings with one kid or the other, explaining just how important to Life As We Know it, that they amend their conduct by tomorrow morning, or all hell was going to break loose. Like Margie, I simply could not deal with having to find new child care arrangements. I'm sure most other working mothers will have had similar experiences. Odd how much more fun it is to remember those situations than was dealing with them in the first place!

Also odd was that so many readers compared this book to those of Janet Evanovitch. I don't get that at all. I've read/tried to read a couple of Evanovitch's books, and didn't enjoy them at all -- I've stopped even looking at her series. To me, the Evanovitch books came across as downright silly, whereas this one was genuinely funny. All in the eyes of the beholder, I suppose.

So? All in all, a good book and a great narrator. I'll be looking for more.

Fun ride

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Not that I can think of.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the pace, funny antics and crazy bad luck. i like how she pretty much takes most things without panic.

Which scene was your favorite?

When she tells her husband about the car, the kid and the transvestite.

Could you see Mother's Day Out being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

I could see either, it is just a fun diversion.

Humorous Who-dun-it

Super cute mystery that yields laugh out loud scenarios as She re-enters the work force, tends to the family, solves cases as a Private Investigator. Fun light read deliciously written by super witty author!
Narration is spot on in her delivery and was definitely the best choice for this type of book. I am eager to hear more narrations by her!

Reads like a bad TV sitcom.

Silly ,dumb, and sounds like a bad sitcom on TV. I did not finish this book and never will. Don't waste your time on this nonsense. The narrator was poor as well.

Bad

Didn’t make it through chapter 2. The first chapter started with offensive characters. Won’t read any of her books again.