Ellen Byerrum: 5 books

Sweatergate, a deadly assault with a giant candy cane, and a chance encounter with a homeless child in a stolen shepherd’s robe send Lacey Smithsonian on an unlikely Christmas quest in Grave Apparel, the fifth book in Ellen Byerrum’s Crime of Fashion Mysteries. Christmas time in Washington,...

Fashion reporter and stylish sleuth Lacey Smithsonian returns in her second Crime of Fashion Mystery, as high crimes and haute couture heat up Washington, D.C.: "The City Fashion Forgot." Lacey tangles with a fabric of deceit and death when high fashion meets low dealings in unfashionable Washington....

Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian tackles her first deadly fashion crime in Washington, D.C., "The City Fashion Forgot." A beautiful dead hairstylist, a straight razor, and a horrible haircut? The D.C. cops call it an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Lacey's nose for nuance, her subtle style instincts,...

If you lost your memories, would you lose your soul? “In my memories, my eyes are always green.” A young woman finds herself recovering from a devastating accident in a memory research facility near Washington, D.C., in this new psychological suspense thriller. Her eyes are brown, not green...

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...