Raiders of the Lost Corset by Ellen Byerrum

But this time, will the style sleuth discover that green is also the color of death? 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. 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. 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 it becomes unexpectedly weaponized at the most security-conscious event in Washington, D.C.-the fabled White House Correspondents' Dinner.įashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is delighted to finally take her place at the legendary D.C. When does a little black dress become a lethal black dress? Under her pen name Eliot Byerrum, she has published two plays with Samuel French, A Christmas Cactus and Gumshoe Rendezvous.įollow Ellen Byerrum on her website at and on Facebook and Twitter. Byerrum anticipates exploring Tennyson’s continuing odyssey in a future novel.īyerrum has also penned a middle-grade mystery, The Children Didn’t See Anything, the first in a projected series starring the precocious twelve-year-old Bresette twins. Her past is full of questions, her present is filled with deception and danger, and her future is a blank page-unless she can discover who she really is. It introduces us to a young woman, Tennyson Claxton, whose mind seems to hold the mingled memories of two very different women.

The Woman in the Dollhouse is Byerrum’s first suspense thriller. Two of Byerrum’s Crime of Fashion novels, Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover, have been filmed for the Lifetime Movie Network. Lacey is a reluctant fashion reporter in Washington D.C., which she lovingly refers to as 'The City Fashion Forgot.” Her Crime of Fashion mystery series stars a savvy, stylish female sleuth named Lacey Smithsonian. Ellen Byerrum is a novelist, a playwright, a reporter, a former Washington, D.C., journalist, and a graduate of private investigator school in Virginia.

Raiders of the Lost Corset by Ellen Byerrum