ELLEN BYERRUM is a novelist, a playwright, a former Washington, D.C., journalist, and a graduate of Virginia private investigator school. She lives with her husband in a slightly haunted old house in Colorado. Byerrum is currently at work on a thriller titled Dollhouse in the Crawlspace, as well as the eleventh Crime of Fashion Mystery featuring Lacey Smithsonian, and the further adventures of Cassidy James and the Bresette Twins. Follow her on the web at ellenbyerrum.com, on Facebook and on Twitter.