Ellie Avery and her husband Mitch are in Washington DC while Mitch and his Air Force colleagues are getting a series of training sessions. The military wives, including Ellie and her best friend Abby, are touring the Washington sites while their husbands are busy during the day. Ellie's also taking the opportunity to see Mitch's sister, Summer, who is finishing up her final semester of college in DC. Summer has a job as a nanny to the spoiled child of Vicki Archer, who is somewhat of a media star, but who also has her hopes on getting into politics.
Instead of Ellie just enjoying the time away from home in Seattle (as she and her husband await the location of his next military move), she works on solving the murder of a man who was pushed onto the tracks in a Metro station. That becomes a priority when subway camera footage shows a person who looks remarkably like Summer who was near the man. It turns out that Summer actually knew the guy and had rebuffed his advances, and he had been stalking her, giving her a possible motive for murder. Summer says she was not there. There were a lot of people in the subway station at the time, including the wives' tour guide and Summer's boss.
This is just one crime, but Ellie and some of the other military wives encounter a number of other serious situations that seem separate, but are they?
This is the first book I've read in this series. Ellie is a professional organizer, and periodically there are tips at the end of the chapters.
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