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"Amusing mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 1, 2003

Nobody wants to make an enemy of their hairdresser, so when her stylist Stella Lake asks her friend Lacey Smithsonian to attend a viewing, she goes. The dead woman is a young hairdresser named Angie who has a bald do and cut wrists. The police think she committed Read more...

"A fashion reporter investigates death in a salon"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted January 4, 2004

Lacey Smithsonian is a reporter with the Eye Street Observer in Washington, D.C. who writes the Crimes of Fashion column. Recently her column was about the makeover Marcia Robinson got from Stylettos stylist Angela Wood. Then Angie is found dead at Stylettos. The police say it was Read more...

Summary

Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C. is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless, doing her part to change this town— one fashion victim at a time...

Can a bad haircut kill you?
An up-and-coming stylist, Angie Woods had a reputation for rescuing down-and-out looks—and careers—all with a pair of scissors. But when Angie is found with a drastic haircut and a razor in her hand, the police assume she committed suicide over the shear disaster. Lacey knew the stylist and suspects something more sinister—that the story may lie with Angie's star client, a White House staffer with a salacious Web site. Or with a recent string of thefts at the salon. With the help of a hunky ex-cop, Lacey must root out the truth—before she becomes the next subject of a hostile makeover...

Lacey's Fashion Tip of the Day:
Never wear pink to testify. (Lacey has complicated feelings about pink.)