French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron

Item: French Quarter Fright Night
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted September 6, 2024 by karenbaron in #BookishRecipe, #HalloweenWithTheBaroness, Blog Tour, Contest - Giveaway, Mystery, Review, Series / 1 Comment

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French Quarter Fright Night

by Ellen Byron

Series: Vintage Cookbook Mystery #3
Series Rating:

Published by Severn House Publishers on September 3, 2024
Setting: New Orleans, Louisiana
Genres: Cozy Culinary Mystery
Pages: 273
Format: Audible Audiobook, Audio CD, Kindle, Paperback
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Also in this series: Bayou Book Thief , Wined and Died in New Orleans

The third in the fabulous cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.

Welcome to the Bon Veeevil Festival of Fear! Prepare for the spookiest night of your life . . .

It's Halloween in New Orleans, and the staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is setting up a fantastic haunted house tour for their visitors. But when flashy movie star Blaine Taggart and his entourage move into the mansion next door, gift shop proprietor Ricki James-Diaz gets a fright of her own.

While Ricki is excited about the potential business the tours will bring to her vintage cookbook shop, she's less thrilled by former friend Blaine's arrival in town. Then Bon Vee's prop tomb becomes a real tomb for Blaine's nasty assistant, and suddenly everyone at Bon Vee is a murder suspect. There isn't a ghost of a chance one of them committed the crime, but with NOPD busy tackling the mischief and mayhem generated by the spooky holiday, it falls on Ricki and her friends to catch the killer.

As the Big Easy gears up for the Big Scary, it seems everyone has skeletons in their closets. Can Ricki reveal the shadowy killer before someone else becomes part of the Halloween horror show?

French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron welcomes in the fall season with a bang!

Can Ricki keep the Bon Vee staff from going to jail?

Ricki James-Diaz

Ricki is becoming a better person since coming back home to New Orleans. Not only is she finding out more about her birth family, but she is also finding a better life for herself, even if her old life popped in for an unexpected visit. Oh well, Ricki is the bigger person and will not let this matter slide over how happy she has been. I love how stubborn and tenacious Ricki was in this book. Along with being concerned for her family members who got in the crosshairs of her investigation. Ricki keeps proving how good the move from Los Angeles to New Orleans was for her.

The Mystery

Ricki and the rest of the Bon Vee staff were doing a quick dress rehearsal for their Haunted House tour, which ended when they found the dead assistant in their makeshift tomb instead of the dummy they had there. She was tasked with investigating why the assistant was found on Bon Vee’s property instead of next door. Oh boy, was this one a doozy! I figured out who did it, but not the entire reason why! Wow, was that reason a big stupid one.

Five Stars

I am giving five stars to French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron. I recommend this book and the first two of this series. Ms. Byron has fooled me with them all, especially on the motive of why the killers have done it. She keeps me entertained with them all. I especially love the recipes in the back. She has some in the back of this one as well. I love how she includes what cookbook they came from and why she chose this recipe.

The recipes are Golden Pumpkin Loaf, Pumpkin Chiffon Pie, Chicken and Oyster Broth, Popcorn Balls, Jack-O-Lantern Cheese Ball, and a recipe she says not to make called Creamy Pimiento Ring.

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About Ellen Byron

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 in the category of Best Contemporary Novel. Plantation Shudders was nominated for Agatha, Lefty, and Daphne awards. Her most recent Cajun Country Mystery, Mardi Gras Murder, is nominated for Agatha and Lefty awards. In 2020, she’ll debut a second series, The Catering Hall Mysteries, under the pen name Maria DiRico.

Ellen’s TV credits include Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents. 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. A native New Yorker who attended Tulane University, Ellen lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and two rescue dogs. She still misses her hometown – and still drives like a New York cabbie.

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