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The Nanny Diaries is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nannies. The book satirizes upper-class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their children's caregivers.
Sample book excerpt: ... “One of the schools had a book-binding club, where moms would rebind books at the school library. The last woman I worked for (a high-powered attorney) was looked down ...
The review concludes, "While THE 17th SUSPECT is complete in itself, it does leave an element of the book dangling treacherously at the conclusion. Longtime readers of the series will recall that Patterson and Paetro are not averse to removing recurring characters from the mix with little warning, so whether they will “go there” is a ...
This book has two main plots and a number of subplots. Detective Lindsay Boxer is attending a birthday party for one of the girls in her group, dubbed by themselves as the Women's Murder Club. As has happened several years in a row on this birthday, she is called away to examine a murder of a woman in a public area and this time in broad ...
Mary Prince (born 1946; also called by her married name Mary Fitzpatrick [1] until officially separated from her husband in 1979 [2]) is an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder who then became the nanny for Amy Carter, the daughter of US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter, and was eventually granted a full pardon ...
To further complicate all of the Women's Murder Club ladies, Jill is pregnant and Claire becomes a target for the Chimera killer. Cindy starts dating the murdered girl's pastor, Aaron Winslow, and Lindsay's father shows up, pretending he misses his daughter, but actually following Chimera, too, as he was present the day the killer slaughtered a ...
This book has three major plots and at least two minor ones. The first begins with the birth of police detective Lindsay Boxer's daughter, which had to be at home during a major power outage. The less than sterile condition of the baby's birth causes medical complications that keep Boxer away from her job during part of the investigation into a ...
The A.V. Club's Donna Bowman described Barney's response to breaking up with Quinn as "wacky and unrealistic", Lily and Marshall's trouble finding a nanny as "cliche and predictable", and their combination as "an unpromising brew of sitcom business as usual". She described the secondary plot, involving Ted and Robin as "fresh and vibrant".