The Chic: New York team must have heard about me solving the mystery of missing French fashion designer Belle La Lune-and that I'd managed to find her before the French police! I was thrilled that Chic had asked for my help and accepted the job right away. Interested? Are you kidding? Do fashionistas wear black? Do I like French fries? Chic would prefer not to involve the police just yet, so they are wondering if you'd be interested in accepting the case.' Chic: New York is-was-using it on a cover shoot, but.it's missing. I remember the exasperation I felt as I stood, ice cream in hand, on a bridge over the Seine, trying to formulate an excuse to get out of whatever modeling job this was surely about.īut the call wasn't about a modeling job, and my exasperation quickly turned to excitement when I heard her continue: 'Have you ever heard of the Black Amelia? It's the most famous black diamond in the world. 'Axelle, I thought you might be interested to hear about a call I've had from New York,' my modeling agent, Miriam, said on the phone Saturday afternoon, her breathless voice a conspiratorial whisper.

The call from Chic: New York came two days ago, just as I wrapped up solving my first big mystery during Paris Fashion Week. Not that I know many details yet about the case I've been asked to solve. You see, I'm not in New York City on my way to Chic as a model. And before you start thinking this is another one of my mom's hard-core plans to get me 's not.

I'm on my way to Chic: New York, the fashion magazine-or more specifically, to their head office located just off Times Square in New York City. She currently lives in in the forests of Germany with four dogs and a very large aquarium full of fish. After high school, Carina moved to New York City to model, then on to Paris where she published her first book. She grew up in California with her Swedish father and Mexican mother. Carina Axelsson is a writer, illustrator, and former model.

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