HOMEMAKER

Homemaker  introduces an immersive world of twisty domestic mystery that’s witty, heartfelt, and alive with banter. This is a layered and edgy read with a swoony, slowest-burn romance.

Prairie Nightingale is divorced, with two daughters, an ex-husband who seriously needs to remember the directions to his own apartment, and the irrepressible ability to notice when something doesn’t fit. Refuses to make sense. Is begging the question. 

Green Bay, Wisconsin, is far, far away from the Oregon commune where Prairie grew up and the mosh pits of Seattle where she spent her young womanhood. It wouldn’t be fair, though, to assume this means her midsized midwestern city is uninteresting. 

Why, for example, is everyone so quick to assume that Lisa Radcliffe—who is gorgeous, dotes on her three kids, and has a freaking hot and rich husband—took off one night after dinner to clear her head and simply decided not to come back?

That’s interesting. So are Lisa’s friends, who are deep in Lisa’s downline (some of them too deep) trying to sell athleisure wear for an MLM that gets more sinister the more Prairie digs into it. Also interesting? Lisa’s husband, with his unimpeachable alibi and the past he’s tried to keep hidden. 

Maybe the most interesting of all, though, is Detective Foster Rosemare, who isn’t from around here either, and who, despite his attempts to warn Prairie off, can’t help but offer his respect—and a few not-unwelcome smoldering looks—when Prairie keeps being so, so good… at solving his case. 

The first in a multibook, way-bingeable series of follow-the-clues, interview-rich, victim-centered mysteries interwoven with family of all varieties, inclusive characters, and make-it-ache, slow-burn, sexy romance—meet Prairie Nightingale in Homemaker. 

Mae Marvel is a co-writing team of two New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors living in Wisconsin. Like Prairie, they are familiar with #schoolpickuplife, but unlike Prairie they have so far not been able to solve crimes in their town. But never say never.

Mae Marvel is represented by Pamela Harty of the Knight Agency and Tara Gelsomino of One Track Literary Agency.