Biography

Ellen Byron's USA Today bestselling Cajun Country Mystery series has been nominated for Agatha, Lefty, and Daphne awards.. Her TV credits include Wings, Still Standing, and Just Shoot Me, and her written work has appeared in Glamour, Redbook, and Seventeen, among others. She also won the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Mystery Writers. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, their daughter, and a very spoiled rescue dog. A native New Yorker, Ellen misses her hometown, and drives like a New York cabbie.

Schedule

Noon to 1 p.m.
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room C
Discussion
It's a Mystery to Me: Mischief, Murder, and Mayhem

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent
Book Signing

Body on the Bayou

The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they’ve managed to survive the scandal. Now there’s a très bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat’s nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer.

Maggie, inexplicably tasked with being Vanessa’s Maid of Honor, quickly discovers why everyone else refused the assignment when the Bridezilla hands her a long list of duties–the most important of which is entertaining Vanessa’s cousin, Ginger Fleer-Starke, a mysterious woman with dangerous secrets. But just days before the wedding, Ginger’s lifeless body is found on the bayou behind Crozat Plantation and the Pelican PD, as well as the Crozats, have another murder mystery on their hands.

There’s a gumbo-potful of suspects, including an ex-Marine with PTSD, an annoying local newspaper reporter, and Vanessa’s own sparkplug of a mother. But when it looks like the investigation is zeroing in on Vanessa as the prime suspect, Maggie reluctantly adds keeping the bride-to-be out of jail to her list of Maid of Honor responsibilities in Body on the Bayou, the second in Ellen Byron’s charming and witty series.