Don't Cross Mo Ellery, (Paperback)

<p><strong>A laugh-out-loud mystery following the indomitable hot mess Mo Ellery, whose job as a school crossing guard pulls her into an unhinged murder investigation. </strong></p><p>Mo Ellery's 29th birthday is a disaster. After one <em>small</em> accident--the exposure of her boyfriend's genitals (well, maybe not <em>that</em> small) on a work video call--she manages to get fired, dumped, and kicked out of their overpriced Chicago apartment. Luckily, a sign appears to guide Mo to her new life: "Looking for flexible part-time work? Become a school crossing guard!" It's everything Mo has been looking for: health insurance. How hard can it be?</p><p>A few weeks later, Mo is adjusting to her new low-paying job, her bisexual reawakening, and her new neighborhood's wacky characters. There's Claudia, an old woman who refuses to let Mo help her cross the street, and Marlowe, a tween cell phone prodigy whose antics terrify her. But Mo's greatest nemesis is Poodle Dude, a guy with an SUV full of poodles who speeds through her intersection each morning. . . until the day he speeds into a sinkhole. Mo tries and fails to shield innocent eyes from his bloody corpse, but succeeds in accidentally becoming the guardian to his three poodles.</p><p>And that's not the worst of it: some of the locals are convinced that Poodle Dude was murdered. Their allegations are obviously ridiculous, but Mo, desperate for distractions--and for several hot neighbor-suspects--reluctantly agrees to help. But Mo the detective is just as chaotic as Mo the underemployed adult, and the three entitled poodles are not helping. When a second local dies under mysterious circumstances, it's going to take all of Mo's <em>broadly applicable and transferrable skills</em> to find the killer. </p><p>Murderers beware. . . DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY! </p>

• Don't Cross Mo Ellery, (Paperback)
• Author: Birdie Horne
• ISBN: 9780063473089
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-08-11
• Page Count: 336