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When Jessica MacAllister takes time off from her career to move to the suburbs and become a full time wife and mother, it�s not all Ozzie and Harriet. Then her cigar-chomping real-estate agent is murdered, and she can�t resist investigating. Jessica teams up with the victim�s charming � and surprisingly attentive � younger brother, meanwhile wrestling with her own ambivalence about her new role. Contemporary mystery by Cynthia Baxter writing as Cynthia Blair; originally published by Ballantine