Ellen Byron is one of my favorite go-to-authors and I’m so thrilled to share with you the cover reveal for the first book in her NEW “Vintage Cookbook” mystery series, coming June 2022 and the book is up for preorder.
Book Synopsis
A fantastic new cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.
Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid internet stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki’s teen mother disappeared from the hospital.
Ricki’s dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the spectacular former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve “Vee” Charbonnet, the city’s legendary restauranteur. Ricki is excited about turning her avocation – collecting vintage cookbooks – into a vocation by launching the museum’s gift shop, Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware. Then she discovers that a trunk of donated vintage cookbooks contains the body of a cantankerous Bon Vee employee who was fired after being exposed as a book thief.
The skills Ricky has developed ferreting out hidden vintage treasures come in handy for investigations. But both her business and Bon Vee could wind up as deadstock when Ricki’s past as curator of a billionaire’s first edition collection comes back to haunt her.
Will Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware be a success . . . or a recipe for disaster?
Publication Date: June 7, 2022
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Format: Print, Digital, and Audio
Name of Series: Vintage Cookbook
Number in Series: #1
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: ellenbyron.com
About the author
Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won the Agatha award for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty awards for Best Humorous Mystery. She writes the Catering Hall Mystery series, under the name Maria DiRico, and will debut the Vintage Cookbook Mysteries (as Ellen) in June 2022. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. She blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, and will be the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster.
All comments are welcomed.
This sounds so good! I can’t wait to read it.
Thanks so much!
I can’t wait to read it!
Joan, thank you!
I can’t wait to get my hands on this book. I’ve already added the title and release date to my June ’22 list of new books.
YAY!
Looks like a fun one!
Thank you!
What a fantastic cover and I can’t wait to read! Congrats, Ellen, on your new series!
Thanks so much, KIm!
Love the cover!
I can’t wait to get a copy of this book.
Annette – the Garden District!
That’s a yummy cover!
Stunning cover. Looking forward to reading
Thank you on both counts!
So exciting! Love the peacock on the cover and can’t wait to read it!
Isn’t the peacock fun? Thanks!
This sounds like a winner!
Here’s hoping!
Fingers crossed you’re right!
Love the cover and the setting in New Orleans! Can’t wait to read it!!
Yay, thank you!
Beyond excited for this series!!
Emily, thank you!!
Gorgeous cover!!
Thank you! I’m super happy with it.
What a fun cover! I love the peacock. Who needs a cute dog or cat to attract readers when you can have a beautiful peacock instead lol. The description of the book sounds fabulous and I can’t wait to read it.
Sue, thank you! the peacock is a bold choice for a cozy series, lol.
Can’t wait, love her books.
I cannot wait to read this book!!! June 2022 can’t get here soon enough! Congratulations on the new book!
Dianne, thanks so much!
Great cover! I can’t wait for the new series!
Thanks, Christi!
Looking forward to the new series! Love the Cajun County and the Catering Hall mysteries!
Marcy, I’m so happy you like BOTH of them!
Love the cover, Ellen. A perfect representation of NOLA!
Can’t wait to read this. I’ve been waiting for a cover and blurb reveal!