Ellen: 2931 books

A princess died in this corset. Who wouldn't kill for it? Lacey Smithsonian chases the fashion story of the century and a trip of a lifetime in Raiders of the Lost Corset, the fourth book in Ellen Byerrum’s Crime of Fashion Mysteries. "Find the corset!" Corset-maker Magda Rousseau's...

**USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Ellen Byron cranks it up to eleven in the fifth fast and funny Cajun Country mystery. Louisiana B&B owner Maggie Crozat kicks up her heels at a country music festival--but she'll have one foot in the grave if she can't bring the killer of a diva's...

Fans of Jane Lawless new and old will be fascinated by newly minted Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart’s latest intricate puzzle in A Whisper of Bones. Britt Ickles doesn’t remember much from her only visit to her mother’s childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing...

Space City 6 is a collection of short stories from the weird to the wonderful, all with a Houston flair. We begin with the birth of Houston in a mosquito—and alligator-people—infested swamp where a mermaid is intent on stopping human encroachment. Fast forward to the 1940’s where we join a soldier...

"Boardwalk Empire" meets "The Great Gatsby" in this soft-boiled historical mystery, inspired by actual events. Rival gangs fight over booze and bars during Prohibition in 1920s Galveston: the "Sin City of the Southwest." Jasmine Cross, a 21-year-old society reporter,...

During Prohibition in 1920s Galveston, the Island was called the "Free State of Galveston" due to its lax laws and laissez faire attitude toward gambling, girls and bootlegging. Young society reporter Jasmine (Jazz) Cross longs to cover hard news, but she's stuck between two clashing cultures: the...

When young Galveston Gazette society reporter Jazz Cross hears rumors of grave robbers at the Broadway Cemetery, she and photographer Nathan Blaine investigate, hoping to land a scoop. The newshawks witness meetings held by clandestine gangs and enlist her beau, Prohibition Agent James Burton, to...

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 Nick Layton finds a girl lying dead in the courtyard of his Paris apartment, it sets in motion a police investigation searching for answers in skinhead violence at the mosque, arson-by-real estate, flashmobs in the Luxembourg Gardens, and an international Nietzsche hacker who wants the public...

This place used to be called Mang djang karirra: the place where the Dreaming changed shape. And then the Balandas arrived, pale people from different places with tongues that couldn't make the right sounds, and these words became Maningrida. Now it is the place where the Dreaming mutates, might wither...

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What would you do if your hubby gave you the worst anniversary gift ever? A dilapidated sailboat for your anniversary—not very romantic. A dead body on board—even worse. Mollie McGhie is hoping for diamonds for her tenth wedding anniversary. Instead, her clueless hubby presents her...

Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart’s intimate storytelling returns in Twisted at the Root, where Hart’s latest mystery shows the importance of finding the truth. Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband’s...