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Lethal Black Dress: The Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #10
Lethal Black Dress: The Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #10
Lethal Black Dress: The Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #10
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Lethal Black Dress: The Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #10

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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 shoddy TV reporter Courtney Wallace'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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 11, 2017
ISBN9780988707924
Lethal Black Dress: The Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #10
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Ellen Byerrum

Ellen Byerrum is a novelist, a playwright, a reporter, a former Washington, D.C., journalist, and a graduate of private investigator school in Virginia. Her Crime of Fashion Mystery series features a savvy, stylish female sleuth named Lacey Smithsonian, a reluctant fashion reporter  who solves crimes with fashion clues. The series is set in Washington D.C., which Smithsonian lovingly refers to as "The City That Fashion Forgot.”  Publisher's Weekly has called Byerrum's writing "as smooth as fine-grade cashmere." In addition to mysteries, Byerrum has also produced her first suspense thriller, The Woman in the Dollhouse. It introduces us to a young woman, Tennyson Claxton, whose mind holds the mingled memories of two very different women. Best Thrillers calls this page turner “an ingeniously crafted psychological thriller that bewitches on page one and continues to mesmerize until its shocking conclusion." Byerrum anticipates exploring Tennyson’s continuing odyssey in a future novel. More information about the author can be found on her website at www.ellenbyerrum.com and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. She also produces short humorous pieces on fashion on her YouTube channel, Ellen Byerrum's Fashion Bites.  Author photo (c) Joe Henson

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    This used to be one of my favorite cozy series: the MC is a reporter for a D.C. newspaper, stuck on the fashion beat, which means her stories are interesting and she has a legitimate reason to investigate and ask people questions; there's never a love triangle and Lacey's fashion beat focuses on vintage fashions and each story offers up interesting historical information about whatever fashion is at the heart of a book's plot. This last book, though, was self-published and while the completist in me bought it to finish my collection, it sat on my TBR for ages because I was nervous about what would happen without benefit of the series editor. I needn't have worried; the author did run a bit long in areas that would have benefitted from a bit of tightening up (her Fashion Bites for example) and at least once it was obvious she was using Lacey as a personal mouthpiece, but overall, Lacey and her quirky friends were all the same, and the writing was good, the mystery well-plotted, and the copy well-edited. The last scene was over-the-top, but the final column, written by one of Lacey's co-workers, was sublimely wry and funny; it made up for the melodrama and capped the book off perfectly. There were things left undone in this book, leaving it open to an 11th, but not so much that I'm left wanting for more. Of course if an 11th shows up, I'll buy it.

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