Dorothy Cannell: Femmes Fatal (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Once Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale: the one about the overweight, underpaid interior designer who falls rapturously in love with a gorgeous prince and lives happily ever after. But now, four months after the birth of her twins, her worst nightmare has come true: the princess has turned into a frog and the bliss has gone out of the bedroom.

Can a course in the sensual arts, featuring naughty nighties and Peach Melba Love Rub, rekindle the romance she and her adored Bentley once shared? It's a question that leads Ellie straight to an organization called Fully Female.

But before she can say "Marriage Makeover," one fellow vamp becomes a sex-crazed zombie and another meets her end in a fatally frothy bubble bath. Then a third victim of amour turns up dead, and Ellie realizes it's more than ill luck. Can Ellie catch a crazed killer before love gets a bad name.

Dorothy Cannell: Femmes Fatal. Sometimes passion can be a deadly pastime. Random House Publishing Group, ISBN: 9780307816672 (March, 2012), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 304 p.), $3.99.

Dorothy Cannell: Femmes Fatal (USA 1994)

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Dorothy Cannell, award-winning author of The Widows Club, dishes up her most irresistible mystery yet...

FEMMES FATAL
Once Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale: the one about the overweight, underpaid interior designer who falls rapturously in love with a gorgeous prince and lives happily ever after. But now, four months after the birth of her twins, her worst nightmare has come true: the princess has turned into a frog and the bliss has gone out of the bedroom.

Can a course in the sensual arts, featuring naughty nighties and Peach Melba Love Rub, rekindle the romance she and her adored Bentley once shared? It's a question that leads Ellie straight to an organization called Fully Female. But before she can say "Marriage Makeover," one fellow vamp becomes a sex-crazed zombie and another meets her end in a fatally frothy bubble bath. Then a third victim of amour turns up dead, and Ellie realizes it's more than ill luck. Can Ellie catch a crazed killer before love gets a bad name?

"WILD, WACKY, WONDERFUL!" -- Carolyn Hart, author of Southern Ghost
"DOROTHY CANNELL HAS PERFECTED THE RECIPE FOR AN OUTRAGEOUS BREW OF GENTEEL WIT AND WICKED SATIRE... . I GIGGLED TO THE END OF THIS INTRICATE PLOT OF LOVE-STARVED LADIES, EXHAUSTED HUSBANDS, AND DISCREETLY KINKY MURDER." -- Joan Hess, author of Maggody in Manhattan

Dorothy Cannell: Femmes Fatal. Bantam, ISBN: 0553296841 (February, 1994), 279 p., $4.99.