Fatal Cajun Festival

Name: Fatal Cajun Festival
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ellen Byron
ISBN: 9781630157593

Author: Ellen Byron

Series: Cajun Country Mystery #5

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2019

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Cozy

Synopsis

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 stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls.

The festival's headliner, native daughter Tammy Barker, rocketed to stardom on a TV singing competition. She has the voice of an angel . . . and the personality of a devilish diva. But Maggie learns that this tiny terror carries a grudge against Gaynell. She's already sabotaged the Gator Girls' JazzFest audition. When a member of Tammy's entourage is murdered at the festival, Tammy makes sure Gaynell is number one on the suspect list.

Gaynell has plenty of company on that list—including every one of Tammy's musicians. Posing as a groupie, Maggie infiltrates Tammy's band and will have to hit all the right notes to clear her friend's name.

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 James on May 15, 2019

Fatal Cajun Festival is the fifth book in the 'Cajun Country Mystery' cozy series written by Ellen Byron. I was lucky enough to get an early copy through NetGalley and happened to be current in the series so I could begin reading it this week. It will be published in early fall but you can pre-order......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 13, 2022

In this fifth book in the 'Cajun Country Mystery' series, amateur sleuth Maggie Crozat investigates the murder of a country singer's manager. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** After living in New York for over a decade, artist Maggie Crozat returned to her home town of Pelican, Louisiana. Th......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on July 27, 2020

Fatal Cajun Festival marks my fifth visit with Maggie Crozat and her Pelican, Louisiana cohorts. And at author Ellen Byron’s skilled hand, this visit, like the previous ones, has been a pleasure. Maggie and her friends are gearing up for the Cajun Country music festival, an idea initiated by Maggie’s......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 10, 2019

Maggie Crozat’s grand-mere has come up with the idea of Pelican, Louisiana, holding a musical festival in the days leading up to New Orleans’s famous Jazz Fest. Tammy Barker, a native who has gained fame as the winner of the TV singing competition, has agreed to return to headline the event. This is......more

Goodreads review by Micky on February 23, 2021

A music festival brings home a local celebrity who turns out to bring a trail of mayhem! Once again Maggie needs to use her artists eye and intuition to figure out who is causing problems before one of her dearest friends goes down for the crime! Great characters, fun plot and tons of suspects to ch......more