Fahrenheit 501 by Diane Vallere

Fahrenheit 501 by Diane Vallere

When Samantha Kidd is invited to fill a vacated spot in a secret society, she jumps at the chance. The group's mission is to preserve famous fashion patterns through memorization and pass them down to future generations, but Samantha's dreams of Chanel jackets and Halston dresses are dashed when she's assigned the 501 jean. And when the retiring denim expert turns up dead, she fears there's more than fashion history at stake.

Garments from the deceased member's estate are linked to a series of deadly jean jackings, and Samantha questions everything. Was the member's death an admission of guilt or vigilante justice? As she pulls at the threads of the investigation, she finds the fabric of her secret society fraying at the seams.​

Can Samantha unzip the facts or will the truth stay buttoned up forever? ​

Fahrenheit 501 is the twelfth humorous installment in the Killer Fashion mystery series. If you like fashion history, fun puzzles, and unusual crimes, or read favorites Cleo Coyle or Joanne Fluke, you'll love Diane Vallere's latest mystery.

Diane Vallere is a mystery author who has published over twenty-five books. Her Material Witness Mysteries (Penguin Random House) and Costume Shop Mysteries (Penguin Random House) were both national bestsellers and Lefty Award nominees (best comedic mystery). She also writes the Madison Night Crazy for Mod Mystery Series for Henery Press and publishes the Samantha Kidd Style & Error, Sylvia Stryker Space Case, and Mermaid Cozy Mystery series under her own label, Polyester Press. MURDER-A-GO-GO's: Murder Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Gos (Down & Out Publications) is the most recent anthology to which she has contributed short pieces. Diane is still an active member of Sisters in Crime, having served as president of both the local (Los Angeles) and national boards.

She is now editing PROMOPHOBIA, a collection of articles on promotion for writers, which will be published by Wildside Press in 2020 as her legacy project for the organization. She's been to the Malice Domestic Mystery Convention, Bouchercon, Left Coast Crime, and New England Crime Bake, and she's been a co-chair of the California Crime Writers Conference. She has an active newsletter with more than 8,000 subscribers and is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Weekly DiVa, which began as a weekly newsletter and has grown to encourage and inspire personal improvement among women over forty, is her creative director.