Ellen Byerrum

"Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian delves into her latest mystery when hot new stylist Angie Woods supposedly commits suicide, but Lacey believes otherwise and teams up with a gorgeous ex-cop to find the truth, an investigation that leads her to a congressional staffer. Original.

A Crime of Fashion Mystery

Killer Hair

Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian returns home to Sagebrush, Colorado, to prove the innocence of her former boyfriend, cattle rancher Cole Tucker, who has been arrested for the murders of three women.

Death on Heels

While attending the opening of a new fashion museum, fashion guru and columnist Lacey Smithsonian chats up her favorite designer, Hugh Bentley, and stumbles upon a colorful mystery, rife with greed and bad taste, that could be linked to the recent disappearance of a Washington intern. Original.

Designer Knockoff

"Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian, while dealing with her fashion-challenged mother and sister, must help TV makeover success story and supermodel Amanda Manville stop a relentless stalker who is up to no good. Original.

Hostile Makeover

Bursting at the seams with excitement to be in France, Crimes of Fashion columnist Lacy Smithsonian is dishing the dirt on haute couture, only to find herself up to her stillettos in mystery when the supposed Rousseau family lost treasure, a jewel-lined corset, brings about the death of a corset designer. Original.

Raiders of the Lost Corset

When a holiday sweater-hating diva is found beaten and left for dead wearing a hideous acrylic number that screams Christmas, "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian must unravel the mystery before she becomes the next fashion victim. Original.

Grave Apparel

When she stumbles upon a dead body while touring a failing Virginia velvet factory, Crimes of Fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian discovers that her own life is in danger when she receives the killer's rumored calling card--a length of blue velvet ribbon. Original.

Shot Through Velvet

Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian pursues a course in private investigation in order to have a shot at a better job and gets to test her skills when a D.C. socialite is discovered dead outside the first class. Original.

Armed and Glamorous

When a supposedly cursed shawl is blamed for the death of a party crasher during her best friend's bachelorette party, "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian vows to find the real culprit before the bride says "I do." Original. 25,000 first printing.

Veiled Revenge

When does a little black dress become a lethal black dress? When it becomes unexpectedly weaponized at the most security-conscious event in Washington, D.C.-the fabled White House Correspondents' Dinner. Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is delighted to finally take her place at the legendary D.C. insider bash, but she senses something is amiss with a pushy TV reporter's vintage Madame X gown with its stunning emerald lining. When the woman takes a tumble with a tray of champagne and dies of something other than embarrassment, Lacey taps into her ExtraFashionary Perception and follows her hunch that this was no freak accident. Juggling her investigation with her love life and future in-laws complicates matters, while spies and lies and an enemy close to home bring Lacey face to face with danger and jealousy, the green-eyed monster. But this time, will the style sleuth discover that green is also the color of death? This book is the 10th in the Crime of Fashion Mysteries.

Ellen Byerrum

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