Dorothy Parker meets Agatha Christie. "Chick-lit noir with a side of funny." - Ruth Harris, NYT best-selling author of "Modern Women" and "Husbands and Lovers." After her celebrity ex-husband's ironic joke about her "kinky sex habits" is misquoted in a tabloid, New York etiquette columnist Camilla Randall's life unravels in bad late night jokes. Nearly broke and down to her last Hermes scarf, she accepts an invitation to a Z-list Writers' Conference in the wine-and-cowboy town of Santa Ynez, California, where, unfortunately, a cross-dressing dominatrix plies her trade by impersonating...

This comic novel was inspired by a real unsolved Hollywood mystery-the death in 1973 of David Whiting during the filming of the Burt Reynolds' movie, "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing." Whiting was found dead in the motel room of the married British actress Sarah Miles, which caused a massive media scandal. The cause of Whiting's death was never determined. When smart-mouthed Bryn Mawr freshman Nicky Conway meets Fitzgerald-quoting Alistair at a Princeton mixer in 1969, she falls for his retro, Jazz-Age charm. But she discovers he's a con man obsessed with his own "Daisy"-British actress Delia...

This is the second episode in the hilarious misadventures of Camilla Randall, downwardly mobile manners expert and amateur sleuth, but it can be read as a stand-alone. In this installment, the suddenly-homeless Camilla becomes a 21st century Maid Marian-living rough near the real Sherwood Forest with a band of outlaw English erotica publishers-led by Peter Sherwood, a charming, self-styled Robin Hood who unfortunately may intend to kill her. When Camilla is invited to publish a book of her "Dr. Manners" columns with UK publisher Sherwood, Ltd, she lands in a gritty criminal world-far from the...

This comic novel-which takes its title from the most famous Shakespearean quote that Shakespeare never wrote-explores how easy it is to perpetrate a character assassination whether by a great playwright or a gang of online trolls. It's a laugh-out-loud mashup of romantic comedy, crime fiction, and satire: Dorothy Parker meets Dorothy L. Sayers. Perennially down-and-out socialite Camilla Randall--a.k.a. "The Manners Doctor"--is a magnet for murder, mayhem and Mr. Wrong, but she always solves the mystery in her quirky, but oh-so-polite way. Usually with more than a little help from her gay best...