 Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator, and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the "Flowers Detection Agency".Her first Ellie Haskell novel, "The Thin Woman", was selected as one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.Cannell's 1988 novel "The Widows Club" was nominated for the "Best Novel" award at the 1989 Anthony Awards and the Agatha Awards in the same year.