Are two deaths eighty years apart and a plan to keep beautiful country roads unpaved related—and are they motives for murder?
Coming August 5, 2025
About Deeds Left Undone
A Wine Country Mystery
It’s harvest time and trouble is fermenting for Virgina winemaker Lucie Montgomery in this warm-hearted, twisty mystery featuring small-town rivalries, buried secrets and full-bodied murder.
When a vineyard accident during harvest season leaves Lucie Montgomery without a valuable employee, it’s her worst nightmare. But before she can search for a replacement, there’s more bad news: Paul Merchant, her winery manager’s husband, is found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool.
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About Ellen
For many years I worked as a freelance journalist in the US and while living overseas in London, Moscow, and Geneva, Switzerland before turning to writing fiction full time. My last job as a stringer was as a regional feature writer for The Washington Post, covering many of the places where my wine country mysteries are set.
Photojournalist Sophie Medina is not a killer, but an art thief is determined to make sure she goes down for a crime she did not commit.
"Crosby's prose and characterizations are top-notch."
—Publishers Weekly
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Praise for the Sophie Medina Series
"Crosby introduces photojournalist Sophie Medina in this assured tale of love, loss, and secret agendas, the first in a new series, [which]...offers a complex portrait of our nation's capital, with its historic beauty and roiling underbelly of deceit and danger."
—Publishers Weekly on Multiple Exposure.
Sophie is a tough, relatable heroine, and with her unconventional job-not to mention her ex-spy husband-this makes for a breezy read with just the right amount of thrills."
—Library Journal on Ghost Image
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EVENTS
12/11/24 Arena Stage, Washington, DC. Hidden in Plain Sight: Agatha Christie, Women Writers, and Literary Detectives Panel 6:15-7:15 p.m. preceding the performance of Death on the Nile
8/16-8/24/25: Chautauqua Writers' Center Facility, Chautauqua, NY
9/3-9/7/25 Bouchercon World Mystery Conference, New Orleans, LA
9/19-0/21/2025 Creatures, Crime, & Creativity Conference, Columbia, MD Local guest of honor
NEWS
The trade paperback edition of DODGE AND BURN is now available in the UK and US as of 1/26/25.
DEEDS LEFT UNDONE, the 13th Virginia Wine Country mystery, will be out on August 5, 2025 in the US, UK, and as an ebook. The audio book is moving to a new recording company: Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books.
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