Stone Cold Chic
“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
Melinda Mason, former editor-in-chief of Chic Chick magazine, takes Coco Chanel’s immortal words to heart. As she lay dying in her Manhattan apartment, Melinda douses herself with a fragrance that helps solve the mystery of her death.
The second book in the Who-done-it, Who-wore-it mystery series marks the return of soigné sleuth Bonnie Nash. Her stylish sidekicks are back, too: African American stunner and former model, Rita; footwear addict and glad-2-B-gay newspaper reporter, Johnny; and uber-hunky Lorenzo Maffei, who’s as mysterious and irresistible as ever.
Joining their team is a fashion phobic New York City police detective, who quickly comes to the appalling realization that solving the Melinda Mason case will be impossible without “those freaky fashionistas.”
“Who would want Ms. Mason dead?” he asks.
“Only everyone who’s ever met her,” Bonnie answers.
“Including you?” he responds.
On a journey that takes them to The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto and the Fashion Museum in Bath, England, the sleuths uncover the shocking facts of Melinda’s tangled life. And along the way, they learn that even those who’ve never met the odious editor had motives and opportunity, too.