{"product_id":"dont-cross-mo-ellery-birdie-horne-9798228984639","title":"Don't Cross Mo Ellery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMo Ellery's 29th birthday is a disaster. After one \u003ci\u003esmall\u003c\/i\u003e accident--the exposure of her boyfriend's genitals (well, maybe not \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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 \u003ci\u003ebroadly applicable and transferrable skills\u003c\/i\u003e to find the killer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurderers beware... DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Birdie Horne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228984639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Birdie Horne","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48743181713663,"sku":"9798228984639","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dont-cross-mo-ellery-birdie-horne-9798228984639","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}