"With an engaging heroine, fully fleshed supporting
characters, an intricate plot and a piercing view of the
sins, scandals, and secrets of Washington, 'Blow Up'
offers thoughtful, absorbing fiction."

                              —The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

 

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Photojournalist Sophie Medina must figure out how the death of a Supreme Court justice and the murder of a homeless man are related before she becomes an assailant's next target.

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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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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.

. . . hard to put down. Crosby scores another compulsively readable vino-themed mystery.

Publishers Weekly

 

Latest News & Events

NEWS:

Where I've been on book tour and who I've talked to: Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Rogue Women Writers, Jungle Red Writers, CrimeReads, Dru's Book Musings, & Writers Who Kill--video links and links to articles on the News page.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

10/29/23 Breaux Vineyards  Read Between the Vines Book Club, 11-1, free & open to the public

11/15/23 University Club of Washington, D.C. Annual Meet the Author & Book Fair, free & open to the public.

More information on the Events page

 

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