What would you do if you had to decide between saving the lives of your children or the lives of thousands of people you don’t know? boom-BOOM!, the new action-packed mystery thriller by Wally Duff, blows the lid off traveling and terrorism today. It is the book the TSA does not want you to read! Former investigative journalist and now full-time mother, Tina Thomas, is longing for some excitement when she and the other stay-at-home moms of Hamlin Park are jarred out of their mind-numbing boredom by a strange sequence of events in their upscale Chicago suburb.Tina’s reporter-radar kicks in when, suddenly, an ill-tempered man buys a house across the street, a secretive Israeli family moves into the neighborhood, and a creepy dentist with an eye for strippers rents the home next door. Determined to uncover the breaking story that will reboot her career, she launches an investigation worthy of her glory days at the Washington Post. What she discovers, with help from her friends, puts all their lives in jeopardy. boom-BOOM!, the first novel in the Hamlin Park Irregulars series, has more twists, turns, and thrills than the real housewives of Hamlin Park have bling, boob jobs, and Botox.