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Can two women get the lowdown on high society?

In 1913, a society writer and a former lady’s maid join forces to find the truth and avenge the wrongful death of a friend.

Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy didn’t ask to be thrown together to bring the truth to light, but the unlikely pair navigate a soul-crushing class system to challenge the...

Chasing criminals from New York City to Wyoming to Panama!

Though she has brought some measure of justice to the victim in her first investigation, Louisa Delafield knows that her past will never truly leave her alone.

Accustomed to thinking of herself as a strong-willed and determined woman, Louisa is plagued by panic attacks after her traumatic...

Louisa Delafield thought of that poor woman in the flaming wedding dress as she fell from the window of the burning hotel…

She couldn’t shake the image, haunted by the thought of what could have caused such a horrific scene.

But when she’s sent on what seems like a simple assignment in Florida, death follows her. A guest at a high-society wedding...

For the United States, World War One started in New York years before it started in Europe.

After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil.

Their hunt takes them through all...

The search for justice continues!

While Ellen tries to get her new magazine, The Ladies’ Lantern, off the ground, Louisa makes it her mission to find out who is killing Broadway investors and why.

The newest member of the Delafield & Malloy family, Carlotta, takes charge of caring for Ellen’s new baby, but she has other resources that prove...

Louisa Delafield steps up to protect Theda Bara, the silent film star, from a blackmailing tabloid editor and an ex-convict stalker!

In this 1916 extension of the Louisa Delafield & Ellen Malloy Investigations series, Louisa fights against the dark side of fame in the early days of the motion picture industry.

One of the first pre-Hollywood...

A daughter’s memoir of sacrifice and discovery as her ailing mother’s caretaker is “an inspiring story of love, loss and the ravages of aging” (Kirkus).

Like all mothers, mine had a set of maxims that she thought were important to impart to me: if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all (unless it’s irresistibly funny); it’s...

Trish spends her time hustling and cheating to score. Heroin, Dilauids, whatever she can get.

Precisely plotting the slippery slope of a heroin addict’s existence, The Hummingbird Kiss paints a bleak picture but still manages to offer a ray of hope. The ’70s are young, and 18-year-old Trish is a newlywed. When a Florida judge sentences her junkie...

Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a...

When her beloved step-grandmother, a semi-retired opera singer, dies of cancer in 1970, 15-year-old Eli Burnes runs away with a draft-dodger, thinking she’s on the road to adventure and romance. What she finds instead is a world of underground Weathermen, Black Power revolutionaries, snitches and shoot-first police. Eventually Eli is rescued by...

The Lullaby Motel is about girls eager to discard their innocence, and women yearning to regain it.
Set in Florida’s land of bare feet, rain puddles, sandspurs, palmettos, giant multi-colored grasshoppers and alarmingly pink azaleas, these stories take place where garish development rises temporarily out of the primordial swamps. Whether the...