Mardi Gras Murder, Ellen Byron
Mardi Gras Murder, Ellen Byron
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Mardi Gras Murder

Author: Ellen Byron

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2019


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 Ellen Byron

Ellen Byron is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of the Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, Cajun Country Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (under the pen name Maria DiRico). Her mysteries have won multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Lefty Awards for Best Humorous Mystery from the Left Coast Crime conference. Bayou Book Thief, her first Vintage Cookbook Mystery, was also nominated for an Anthony award. A Very Woodsy Murder is the first book in her new Golden Motel Mystery series, which is inspired by her former career as a sitcom writer.

Ellen's TV credits include Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents; she's written over 200 magazine articles; her published plays include the award-winning Graceland and Asleep on the Wind. She is a native New Yorker who lives in Los Angeles and attributes her fascination with Louisiana to her college years at New Orleans' Tulane University. She also worked as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart, a credit she never tires of sharing. Have an early copy of Martha's first book, Entertaining? Ellen's standing right next to her in the group shot.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on January 13, 2021

I have rated almost all books in the series lowly, but I keep returning to it. The scores are neither harsh nor generous. In my opinion they are spot on. But why do I read them if they don't pass muster? I like two or more aspects of the series. Firstly the books are well written. There is a smatteri......more

Goodreads review by James on April 07, 2020

I was really excited to read Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron after winning a copy via a cozy mystery review group I belong to. I was so excited that I ordered the first three books in the Cajun Country series to catch up and read them all last month. Finally... today I cracked open the fresh hard c......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 09, 2022

3.5 stars In this fourth book in the 'Cajun Country Mystery' series, amateur sleuth Maggie Crozat helps investigate two murders and judges a hometown pageant. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** After a bad breakup with her boyfriend, artist Maggie Crozat moves from New York City to her home to......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 04, 2018

Maggie Crozat's home town of Pelican was flooded out just three weeks ago, but the community is rallying together to repair and rebuild. And they certainly aren't planning to let that curtail this year's Mardi Gras celebration. Unfortunately, Maggie has gotten roped in to help with this year's Miss......more