{"product_id":"9780063473072_dont-cross-mo-ellery","title":"Don’t Cross Mo Ellery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMo Ellery’s 29th birthday is a disaster. After one \u003cem\u003esmall\u003c\/em\u003e accident—the exposure of her boyfriend’s genitals (well, maybe not \u003cem\u003ethat\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003ebroadly applicable and transferrable skills\u003c\/em\u003e to find the killer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurderers beware. . . DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdie Horne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46899975258261,"sku":"9780063473072","price":46.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063473072_63b1aac4-a618-4555-a988-328a4d209aa2.jpg?v=1776888343","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063473072_dont-cross-mo-ellery","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}