num_pages: 100
description: A maternity leave murder mystery complete with postpartum physiotherapy and suspicious grocery store footageRebeccas got an eight-month-old baby and a mystery to investigate! Late one summer night as shes breastfeeding Lucie she spots two men carrying something heavy into a white minivan. Its probably nothing serious but when Rebecca hears that a home health care provider named Eduardo Morales disappeared from the neighbourhood that very night she puts her detective hat on and gets to work.Over the course of the subsequent weeks Rebecca juggles motherhood and detective workalternating between unproductive visits with the Simard family for whom the missing Eduardo worked and tearful visits to potential daycares for Lucie. She faces down inconclusive interviews with evasive subjects and inconveniently timed diaper changes. Pascal Girards observational humor and perfect timing shine through each page highlighting how Rebeccas (over)confident brash approach gets results not just with the troublesome Simards but with everyone in her life.Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor is a lighthearted maternity leave mystery that centers a new mother in all her postpartum glory.
language: English
title: Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly