Born to the Purple — S.L. Florian

Introducing Lady Delia Ross-Merlani... The high-living blueblood with an eye for fashion, a taste for caviar and champagne -- and a nose for murder.

To the manner born, Lady Delia Ross-Merlani is high society's sexiest, savviest, classiest new sleuth. She has more titles -- and hats -- than the Queen, and mingles with all the right people at the very best places from the South of France to the East Side of New York. Until death calls a sudden halt to Lady D's worldly wanderings...

The beautiful sister of Delia's old school chum lies dead in Lenox Hill Hospital. The police are calling it death by natural causes--but Delia's calling it murder. Together with sublimely seductive Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Daniel Elliot, the jetsetting socialite dons her most dazzling designer duds and scours Manhattan's poshest restaurants and most decadent after-hours clubs in search of clues. Her quest turns up one possessive husband and one obsessive lover in a deadly affair of the heart where nothing's sacred ... and love can be lethal.