What's a mere fashion reporter doing in private eye school?! It's Lacey Smithsonian, wrestling with a career crisis. Stuck in the dead-end fashion beat in Washington, D.C., the City Fashion Forgot, Lacey feels unfulfilled and unappreciated. Maybe this private investigation class will give her the skills to break out of her fashion-beat rut. Maybe she'll get a clue to how her private eye boyfriend does his job. And maybe she'll even find a lead on a great non-fashion story. But first she has a problem: the dead socialite in the Jaguar and the fashion story that just won't die. Will her private eye class give Lacey a shot at the serious "hard news" beat she's been longing for? Or will it give a hardened killer a shot at her?

OBSIDIAN MYSTERY ISBN 978-0-451-22456-9 $6.99