USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron is back at it with fan-favorite plantation B&B owner Maggie Crozat in a fourth installment of the Cajun Country mysteries in what critics are calling “a simmering gumbo of a humorous whodunit.”
Name: Ellen Byron
Book Title: Mardi Gras Murder
Book Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Synopsis: Southern charm meets the dark mystery of the bayou as a hundred-year flood, a malicious murder, and a most unusual Mardi Gras converge at the Crozat Plantation B&B.
It’s 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.
Maggie Crozat is determined to give the stranger a name and find out why he was murdered. The post-flood recovery has delayed the opening of a controversial exhibit about the little-known Louisiana Orphan Train. And when a judge for the Miss Pelican Mardi Gras Gumbo Queen pageant is shot, Maggie’s convinced the murder is connected to the body on the bayou. Does someone covet the pageant queen crown enough to kill for it? Could the deaths be related to the Orphan Train, which delivered its last charges to Louisiana in 1929? The leads are thin on this Fat Tuesday―and until the killer is unmasked, no one in Pelican is safe.
About the author: Ellen Byron authors the Cajun Country Mystery series. A Cajun Christmas Killing and Body on the Bayou both won the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery and were nominated for Agatha awards.Plantation Shudders, was nominated for Agatha, Lefty, and Daphne awards. Mardi Gras Murder launches October 9th. Ellen’s TV credits include Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents. She’s written over 200 national magazine articles, and her published plays include the award-winning Graceland. She also worked as a cater-waiter for the legendary Martha Stewart, a credit she never tires of sharing. Find her at http://www.ellenbyron.com/.
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Thank you so much for a great opportunity, Judy! Your website is amazing. The gold standard of author websites.
Thank you! I’m really happy with the rebranding I did earlier this year.
Thanks Beth! I’m also looking forward to reading this one! And we are grateful for readers 🙂
Judy, you and Ellen have doubled my desire to get this book in my hands. Ordered! Thanks for the grateful teaser.
I didn’t type grateful, but I am grateful for the friendship of GREAT writers: you two!
Thank you so much! And Beth, I feel the same way about you and Judy. xoxoxo