Byerrum, Ellen: - ELLEN BYERRUM is a former journalist in Washington, D.C., and a widely produced playwright. She received a private investigator's registration in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Byerrum's "screwball noir" Crime of Fashion Mysteries feature D.C. fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian, whose talent for solving crimes with fashion clues leads her to dead bodies dyed blue, haunted shawls, and the lost jewel-filled corset of a Romanov princess. Two books in the series, Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover, were filmed for Lifetime.Her latest book, The Brief Luminous Flight of the Firefly, is the 1940s prequel to the series. It features a very young Mimi Smith, the "great-aunt Mimi" mentioned throughout the series. Firefly takes place during WWII in Washington, D.C.Stretching beyond the mystery form, Byerrum has written a tense stand-alone psychological thriller, The Woman in the Dollhouse. "It bewitches on page one," Best Thrillers says, "and continues to mesmerize until its shocking conclusion." She has also penned a middle grade mystery, The Children Didn't See Anything and a new children's picture book in rhyme, Sherlocktopus Holmes: Eight Arms of the Law.Two of her plays (under her pen name Eliot Byerrum) are published by Samuel French and available through Concord Theatricals. Her website is at ellenbyerrum.com. Readers can follow her online at facebook.com/EllenByerrum.