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Don't Cross Mo Ellery

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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. Mo Ellery's 29th birthday is a disaster. After one small accident the exposure of her boyfriend's genitals (well, maybe not that small) on a work video call- she manages to get fired, dumped & ticketed 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? 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 80's full of Poodles who speeds through her intersection each morning...until the day he speeds into a sinkhole. Mo tries & fails to shield innocent eyes from his bloody corpse, but succeeds in accidentally becoming the guardianbto his three poodles. And that's not the worst of it: some of the locals are convinced that Poodle Dude was murdered- their legalations are obviously ridiculous, but Mo, despite distractions reluctantly agrees to help. But Mo detective is just as chaotic as Mo the underemployed adult, and the entitled poodles are not helping. When a second local dies under mysterious circumstances, it's going to take all of Mo's broadly applicable & transferrable skills to find the killer. Murderers beware...Don't Cross Mo Ellery!

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