Baby on Board! Maggie Phillips is beyond ready to have her new baby so life can get back to normal. Unfortunately, “normal” for the laundry hag is a relative term. When a neighbor goes missing, Neil begs his wife to stay out of it and focus on the upcoming labor and delivery, but Maggie can’t help but poke around into the man’s life out of habit and curiosity.But when the neighbor’s … neighbor’s body is discovered stuffed into his own freezer and his wife and new baby also go missing, it’s up to the very pregnant laundry hag to clean house and get to the bottom of yet another misadventure, even if the killer is closer to home than she ever imagined.
Murder, scandal and industrial strength juicers. What more could a mom-to-be need?
more
I am a long time fan of The Misadventures of the Laundry Hag and I am pretty sure that Bun in the Oven is the best of the series. While it is not a tradition page turned, I intended to just glance at it and didn’t pause until I was more than halfway through. Jennifer L. Hart is a master at creating people that I want to know personally. Except for her tendency to investigate murder, Maggie feels like a real person; she has weaknesses, strengths, and insecurities. While her handsome husband adores her, this overweight, to her mind, housewife doesn’t understand why, but she sure appreciates it. She doesn’t think he is perfect but she does think he is mostly wonderful. Life isn’t always easy, but hers never has been and she is used to making the best of things. BUT pregnancy hormones and being past her due date make it a lot harder to keep looking on the bright side. It doesn’t help when Neil reveals that a neighbor made a pass at him last Christmas, neither does his excuse for not telling her.
When Maggie’s used-to-be best friend and current neighbor’s husband disappears, Maggie has a hard time not looking into it. When she accidentally finds his body, she knows she is not in great shape to the tracking down a killer but she is afraid that the police will think that her ex-and maybe future friend did him in. A new person comes into her life as well as some old friends that it is nice to see but she can’t help wondering if one or two of them had something to do with the murder.
Pre-ordered but I requested and receive an advanced readers’ copy of Bun in the Oven from the author. I am glad to help check for last minute typos but mostly I am just too excited to wait for the book to be published. I love this book and the series and I always review books that I love.
I love a good pregnant lady rant! Being a mom of two I can’t help but laugh at the trails, tribulations and commentary that always gets put in the books. Being nine months pregnant does absolutely nothing to stop Maggie from sticking her nose in where it doesn’t belong. This time though she may have met her match. With baby x holding out she’s impeded in more ways then one and is finding mayhem in every corner of her life. This books is filled with mischief, misery, mayham and motherhood. And it got me in the feels! Mom hormones are a for real thing! The narrator (and author) did amazing as always with her accents and inflections managing to make laugh out loud and have to wipe an errant tear away.
I was funny
Long awaited but well worth the wait! A clever, fast paced adventure story filled with mysteries and humor and reading with ease. The kind of book that you don’t want to put down until the very last page.
So glad that the baby has eventually arrived. It was quite funny to read about Maggie waddling around at a full 9-months stage of pregnancy and still sleuthing much to the dismay of her hunky husband, Neil.
I loved this addition to the series. It was really a great read.
I received a free advance copy and this is my honest and unbiased review.
To be honest: this is my first Laundry Hagbook! Actually my 1,5 as I met Maggie, Neil and the others in the combined Damaged Goods/Laundry Hag book. I was reading it in de DG series but was utterly charmed by Maggie and Neil. I have the other books on my TBR, but I was so curious about baby X I decided to read this one first. You can easily catch up with the story.
Maggie is 9 months pregnant and ready to pop. And then her ex-best friend and neighbor Sylvia beats her by delivering a baby girl when Maggie is still waddling and getting to know her new doula Grace, courtesy of her mother-in-law. Finding a dead body is not making her life easier. Neil wants to protect her and the baby, and Maggie just wants not to be pregnant anymore.
I loved the crossover of the characters from another series! It adds something extra. The reason I love these books is because the characters are so real and flawed. I love Maggie and her family as much as I love the DG gang. (2017)
GOOD SERIES NOT TO SAY I LOOK FORWARD TO HER EAGERLY BUT I ENJOYED THEM AND WOULD READ A NEW ONE IN SERIES