When Anastasia Pollack's closet-gambler husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her middle-class life craps out. She's left with two kids, a mountain of debt, and her Communist mother-in-law. And that's before she finds a dead body killed with her glue gun and becomes the prime suspect.
Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich;
Gemma Halliday's Spying in High Heels mysteries;
Hank Phillippi Ryan's Charlotte McNally series