I’m excited to host the cover reveal for the next book in Ellen Byron’s mystery series, coming September 2024 and now up for preorder.
Publication Date: September 3, 2024
Publisher: Severn House
Format: Print, Digital
Name of Series: Vintage Cookbook, Book #3
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: ellenbyron.com
Book Synopsis
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?
About the author
An Anthony Award nominee, Ellen Byron is a bestselling author and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country mysteries, Vintage Cookbook mysteries, and Catering Hall mysteries (as Maria DiRico). She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents. Ellen was the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. A native New Yorker, Ellen is a graduate of Tulane University and lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, daughter, and a rotating crew of rescue pups.
Love the cover! And it sounds like another winner of a mystery!
Annette, thank you so much!
Love the cover. One of my favorite series
Vicki, wow! That means a ton to me. Thank you!
I love this! So excited to read it.
Yay! I had a blast writing it. Hope you have as much fun reading it. Thank you!
Amazing…! You’ve managed to make a crypt in a graveyard at night with bats flying around and feet sticking up out of the ground and yet…, IT IS SO CUTE! I love the cover. Best of luck with FRENCH QUARTER FRIGHT NIGHT.
lol, the artists get all the credit! Thanks so much.
I am a fan of the Cajun Country mysrteries so this sounds great.
Karen, thanks! I loved writing about Halloween in New Orleans. If you liked the Cajun Country series, I think you’ll like this.
What a fun cover! Whenever I see feet sticking out like that it reminds me of the Wicked Witch of the West lol. I am looking forward to Ricki and friends Halloween adventures.
Sue, thanks!
It sounds delightful and I love the cover!
Thanks so much, Mary!
Late to this, but happy book cover reveal! Gotta love those feet sticking out!