Murder Among Neighbors - The Kate Austen Suburban Mysteries, #1

Abandoned by her husband who is traveling in Europe to "find himself, " Kate Austen is left to make a life for herself and her five-year-old daughter. She is something of a misfit in her well to-do neighborhood, but when her socialite neighbor, Pepper Livingston, is murdered, and the handsome detective Michael Stone turns to Kate for information about the victim, Kate's life takes an unexpected turn.