Grave apparel
Subtitle: a crime of fashion mystery
By: Ellen Byerrum
Series: Signet mystery
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780451221780
Subjects: Women journalists; Lacey Smithsonian (Fictitious character); Crimes against; Fiction
Description: The voice of a frightened child draws fashion reporter and sometime sleuth Lacey Smithsonian down and dark alley in Washington, D.C., and deep into a mystery that endangers more than just her Christmas spirit. On the eve of The Eye Street Observer's holiday party, the newspaper's crankiest Grinch falls victim to a mysterious assailant in a Santa Claus cap-A rival journalist, a political terrorist, an enraged reader or something far more sinister? Both the victim's life and Lacey's newsroom are full of suspects, and what's her boyfriend Vic secretly building in his garage? Lacey's caught in a Christmas crossfire! Her holiday glow is fading faster than reindeer can fly. The key is an elusive runaway child in a shepherd's robe and to save Christmas, Lacey will have to play shepherd herself. Can she find one little lamb lost in the wintry wilderness of Washington--before the wolf finds them both?