

She’s a finalist in a local fashion competition and receives an invitation to New York City Fashion Week. But snooping during PTA meetings and cotillon parties is harder than it looks, especially when Cricket’s missteps cause a hunky police detective to cast suspicion on her new bestie, Ruby Balthazar.įormer Long Pines Correctional inmate, Ruby has a lot to lose. When a local PI catches a case involving the theft of luxury goods, he hires the former debutante to go undercover to trap a thief.


Ĭricket Crosby is back …and she’s licensed to snoop! Fresh off divorce and a private investigator’s course, Cricket’s ready to balance running her antique store with proving her PI chops…if someone will take a chance on her. And that's kind of fabulous.From the USA Today best-selling author Liz Talley comes this hoot of a follow-up to Deconstructed. But she's embracing change and figuring out what she really wants. Sure, Cricket's life isn't what she imagined. With Ruby and her ragtag relatives - a soused PI and a hunky tow truck driver - Cricket is sleuthing her way to the truth, no matter how dangerous it gets. It's wrinkled, stained, and falling apart at the seams. If anybody can help mend a few tears in Cricket's life, she can.īut turns out Cricket's life isn't just a little torn. After a dicey past, she's determined to forge a new future by working for Cricket and reinventing herself as a designer, deconstructing vintage haute couture. Ruby knows how quickly everything changes. Her plan: hire an investigator find an attorney enlist the help of her new assistant, Ruby and make her husband pay. An exhilarating novel about fast friends and fashionable revenge by Liz Talley, the USA Today bestselling author of Adulting.Īntique-store owner Cricket Crosby's life is turned upside down when she discovers that the rumors of her husband's affair aren't just leisurely southern gossip.
