18 Books Every Mom Needs in Her Beach Bag This Summer

The Misfortune of Marion Palm ($26) is a superentertaining story of a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother of two who has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money she's used to pay for fancy vacations, exercise equipment, and even a Sub-Zero refrigerator. When the school faces an audit, she pulls piles of cash from her hiding places and goes on the lam, leaving behind her trust-fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and an irate school board.