Think twice before running for the Parent-Teacher Association: Billed as “a mystery in six parts,” FRAMED tells the true story of a perky PTA mom in an affluent US suburb whose neatly ordered life came crashing down around her when police found a mind-altering substance in her car (parked in the school parking lot) that she swore had been planted. The LA Times piece is a Harlan Coben novel waiting to come to life, though we suspect it’s more likely that it will be optioned by Hollywood.

(Oh, and speaking of Harlan Coben, we can’t be the only ones delighted that Myron Bolitar is back in “Home,” which critics claim could be the best book yet in the Myron series — and which was released this past Tuesday. Writes the AP’s Jeff Ayers: “Coben knows how to play with readers’ expectations, and he’s crafted another suspenseful and twisty tale. Fans and newcomers alike will feel as if good friends have come home.” It’s in our TBR queue behind the final chapters of Too Big to Fail, which we noted last week, and Brent Schlender and RIck Tetzeli’s Becoming Steve Jobs. Char, you better be reading this one… )

And speaking of Jobs: “There is no such thing as simplicity, only the perception of simplicity,” says Ken Segall, who with Jobs was one of the minds behind Apple’s iconic Think Different campaign and the ‘i’ in all your Apple products. For Jobs, making his products simple to the public meant he had to obsess over every detail of the user experience, from the first ad you would see, to what the store you bought it in looked like, to the packaging, the opening of the box, reading of instructions and intuiting its functions, Segall tells Big Think. Not one of Apple’s products is actually simple: There’s years of research, engineering, and design done specifically and meticulously to make the product seem simple.