Since we noted a trend in novels centered on the school parent group world in the August 2011 issue of PTO Today magazine, several more novels have crossed our desk.

In I Murdered the PTA, by Wendy Dager, a mom is falsely accused of planting a bomb at a PTA meeting, then becomes a target for the real killer.

The main character is widow Daphne Lee-Lee, a quirky sculptor who plays in a punk band. When she takes a bathroom break during a PTA meeting, she survives an explosion that kills the rest of the parents there. The humorous book blends elements of murder mystery and romance as Daphne discovers there’s a lot she didn’t know about the PTA leaders at her daughter’s school.

Although Dager served as a PTA board member for seven years, she says that all the characters in the book are fictional. “No PTA members were harmed during the writing of this book,” she writes.