Ellen Byron
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Down-on-her-luck sitcom writer Dee Stern is flipping the script. Twice divorced and wasting her talents on an obnoxious kids' show, the lifelong Angeleno embraces the urge to jump in her car and keep driving. It's a road trip with no destination--until she pulls into a mid-century motel filled with cobwebs and retro charm. Nestled in the shadow of a national park. It's a time capsule of a place that, like her, could use some work. So, in the most...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Just days before a big wedding at the Crozat Plantation B & B, the bride's cousin is found murdered, and Maggie Crozat has another murder to unravel"--Book jacket flap.
In Pelican, Louisiana, the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer, is the big story. Maggie was dragged into being the maid of honor, and one of her jobs is entertaining Vanessa's cousin, Ginger Fleer-Starke....
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Language
English
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"Its Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B&B the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. The citizens of Pelican are ready to Laissez les bon temps rouler--but there's beaucoup bad blood on hand this Mardi Gras."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B and B. When he floods travel websites with vicious reviews, Maggie thinks she's identified him as rival businessman Donald Baxter -- that is, until he's found stabbed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prodigal daughter Maggie Crozat has returned home to her family's plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana. When one of their guests dies from unnatural causes, Maggie and her family suddenly become suspects in a murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Valentine's Day, Pelican, Louisiana. The air at Crozat Plantation B&B turns decidedly frigid when celebrity chef Phillippe Chanson checks in. And when the arrogant Phillippe-- in town to open his newest Cajun-themed restaurant-- perishes in a fiery boat crash, Maggie Crozat's friend JJ lands in very cold water. Did JJ murder Phillippe because he feared the competition? When Maggie receives a series of anonymous gifts that begin as charming but grow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, uses a Halloween-themed marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana. Five local plantation B&Bs will host "Pelican's Spooky Past" packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. When someone costumed as a rougarou-- a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Louisiana B&B owner Maggie Crozat kicks up her heels at a country music festival--but she'll have one foot in the grave if she can't bring the killer of a diva's hanger-on to heel. Grab your tickets for Cajun Country Live!, the pickers' and crooners' answer to the legendary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation B&B, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a dead body turns up in the magnificent Bon Vee Culinary House Museum in New Orleans, the NOPD zeroes in on the head of the Charbonnet family, known for their valuable French wine, as Ricki James-Diaz wonders what kind of secret her mentor has bottled up.
10) Bayou book thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When widow Ricki James returns to New Orleans and opens a gift shop full of vintage cookbooks, the discovery of a body in a box of donated books leads her to investigate the murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's Halloween in New Orleans and Bon Vee Culinary House Museum has a fantastic haunted house tour prepared. Ricki James-Diaz is excited about the business the tours will bring, but when movie star--and ex-friend--Blaine Taggart moves into the mansion next door, she's less than pleased. When Blaine's nasty assistant is found dead in Bon Vee's fake tomb, everyone at the museum becomes a suspect. The police have their hands full, and it's up to Ricki...
