Reluctant to show up at her family reunion carrying so many extra pounds, unmarried, overweight Ellie Simons hires Bentley T. Haskell to pose as her fiancé, thus beginning a weekend of romance, jealousy, and murder.

Ellie Haskell, nee Simons, newly wed and thin in charming Chitterton Fells, helps Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell of Flowers Detection Agency investigate the high number of dead unfaithful husbands. To uncover the mastermind in the social Widows Club, Ellie poses as an unhappy and betrayed wife.

Several pounds heavier—and gaining—blissful mother-to-be Ellie Haskell knows her days as a thin woman are numbered. Time to let out her clothes, put up her feet, and prepare to enjoy the next nine months as pampered wife. But the first pangs of morning sickness have barely passed when Ellie's handsome husband, Ben, is invited to compete for membership in the world's most exclusive secret society of chefs, and suddenly Ellie finds herself whisked off to America—to Mud Creek, Illinois—and to a gothic mansion straight out of a horror movie.

Ellie Haskell, her twins four months old, to rejuvenate her marriage, takes a course in the sensual arts. The Fully Female offer naughty nighties and Peach Melba Love Rub. When one student becomes a sex-crazed zombie, another dies in a fatally frothy bubble bath, then a third victim dies, Ellie sets on the trail of a killer. Cover Artist: Tom Hallman

The Thin Woman - Ellie Haskell - is back, in the most mischievous, marvelous mystery to hit the marital pike yet. Ellie's mum-in-law Magdalene has moved in permanently and poor Ellie finds herself up to her formerly fat neck in crocheted doilies and cheap statues of Catholic saints. As Magdalene runs her finger over every surface in Merlin's Court (checking, undoubtedly, for dust), Eillie discovers that she isn't the only woman in Chitterdon Fells with the ultimate mother-in-law problem - three others are experiencing the same living hell. One tipsy evening, four imaginary plots to bump off the resident in-laws are hatched and those plots start coming lethally true in real life. Ellie once again plunges into a desperate chase to outwit a killer.

Life has been hectic in the Haskell household, but a lull in household affairs should allow Ellie time enough to slim down, pick up the threads of her interior design career, and kick the romance reading habit that keeps here from her marital boudoir. But murder rears its ugly head when the body of the Chitterdon Fells librarian found sprawled among the library stacks. The only positive side of the untimely demise is the arrival of male romance cover model, Karisma, come to town to strut his tawny mane and sun-bronzed muscles for a fund-raiser in the late lamented librarian's name. But when hunky Karisma's entourage is poisoned, and the spouse of a Library League newlywed dies mysteriously, fantasy life careens toward a collision course with reality. Ellie must find a clever killer before she meets a sinister and decidedly unromantic fate! Fizzing with deadly wit and outrageous secrets, How To Murder The Man Of Your Dreams is a mystery to swoon for.

Ellie Haskell catches spring cleaning fever when several members of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen’s Association meet decidedly grisly ends . . . Dear old Mrs Malloy, faithful housekeeper for many a year, has only gone and handed in her notice. After much despairing, Ellie employs Mrs Gertrude Large to keep her busy household running smoothly. But a few hours later Mrs Large falls to her death from a ladder. Ellie quickly finds a replacement, only for her to also suffer a fatal fall—this time in the library. These deaths can’t be a coincidence. One dead housekeeper is a misfortune, but two must be murder. Then a third body is found. This time stabbed to death—it was no accident. Ellie must don her best marigolds and go undercover to catch a killer who’s playing very dirty . . .

Ellie Haskell and husband Ben need a holiday, and France beckons. But a chain-smoking Gypsy warns "Take that trip at your peril!" Ellie loses the funeral urn ashes of her prodigal father Morley's platinum blond lady love, Harriet. Morley is a suspect in another accident, and Ellie questions whether he is a pawn or perpetrator, and the role of the gypsy.

"Rosemary, Thora, and Jane lived at the end of the lane, one was thin, one was fat, and one was very plain." The three "bridesmaids" were best friends to Ellie Haskell's late grandmother Sophia, and hold a seance for Ellie to make contact. The life-changing journey includes a seance, a hidden diary, and a murder that took place more than fifty years ago.

The Importance of Being Ernestine: An Ellie Haskell Mystery