Read Series: Crime Of Fashion
by Author Ellen Byerrum
Raiders of the Lost Corset (2006)
Lacey can't wait to see France for the first time with friend Magda Rousseau, corset creator for Washington D.C.'s wealthiest and kinkiest. Ostensibly seeking Paris fashion as haute couture reporter on budget of The Eye news, her real search is for a gem-lined corset stolen from a Russian princes...
Grave Apparel (2007)
SWEATERGATE The Eye Street Observer's resident sourpuss, Cassandra Wentworth, made enemies with her editorial skewering of tacky holiday sweaters. Cassandra wouldn't be caught dead in a red-and-green cardigan, yet Lacey finds the woman bleeding and unconscious wearing an acrylic number that prac...
Hostile Makeover (2005)
As makeover madness sweeps the nation's capital, reporter Lacey Smithsonian interviews TV show makeover success story Amanda Manville. But with Amanda's beauty comes a beast in the form of a stalker with vicious intentions—and Lacey may be the only one who can stop him.
Designer Knockoff (2004)
When fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable D.C., it's more than a good story-it's a chance to show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it's not long before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in the crowd. A reporter at...
Shot Through Velvet (2011)
Book Summary: Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations-and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted, since they blamed the "Blue Devil" for killing ...