Shot Through Velvet: A Crime of Fashion Mystery
by:
Ellen Byerrum (author)
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 their jobs. But...
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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 their jobs. But when another nickname, the "Velvet Avenger", makes the rounds, and ribbons of blue velvet start popping up, it could be more than Lacey's job at stake-it could be her life...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451232502 (045123250X)
ASIN: 045123250X
Publish date: 2011-02-01
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I love this series and was so happy to see that she was still writing the crime of fashion mysteries. This one didn't disappoint; it was fun but she still managed to address the economic issues with grace and empathy. And I didn't guess whodunit until I was supposed to.