May 18th, 2025
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The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.

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Wedding season includes searching for a missing bride�and a killer . . .


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Sometimes the path forward begins with a step back.


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One island. Three generations. A summer that changes everything.


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A snapshot made them legends. What it didn�t show could tear them apart.


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This life coach will give you a lift!


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A twisty, "addictive," mystery about jealousy and bad intentions


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Trapped by magic, haunted by muses�she must master the cards before they�re lost to darkness.


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Masquerades, secrets, and a forbidden romance stitched into every seam.


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A vanished manuscript. A murdered expert. A castle full of secrets�and one sharp-witted sleuth.


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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Ellen Byron

Ellen Byron

Blogging at Fresh Fiction

Ellen Byron | Author-Reader Match: WINED AND DIED IN NEW ORLEANS
February 7, 2023
Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce  Read More...

Ellen Byron | 20 Questions: BAYOU BOOK THIEF
June 6, 2022
1--What is the title of your latest release? BAYOU BOOK THIEF:   Read More...

Ellen Byron | A Recipe from MURDER IN THE BAYOU BONEYARD
September 21, 2020
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard, the sixth book in my Agatha Award-winning  Read More...

Ellen Byron | What Writing for TV Taught Me
August 17, 2015
I’ve had a twenty year career as a writer-producer on a number of popular television series. When I wrote my debut novel,   Read More...

Pseudonym: Maria DiRico.

Ellen is a USA Today bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (as Maria DiRico). A Very Woodsy Murder is the first book in her new Golden Motel Mystery series. She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents, but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.

An alum of New Orleans’ Tulane University, she blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, and serves on the national board for Mystery Writers of America. She lives in the Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and rescue pooch Cammie.

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Series

Cajun Country Mystery | A Vintage Cookbook Mystery | Golden Motel

Books:

Solid Gold Murder, August 2025
Golden Motel Mysteries #2
Hardcover / e-Book
A Very Woodsy Murder, June 2025
Trade Paperback
A Very Woodsy Murder, August 2024
Golden Motel #1
Hardcover / e-Book
Wined and Died in New Orleans, February 2023
A Vintage Cookbook Mystery #2
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bayou Book Thief, June 2022
A Vintage Cookbook Mystery # 1
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Fatal Cajun Festival, September 2019
Cajun Country
Hardcover / e-Book
Mardi Gras Murder, October 2018
Cajun Country
Hardcover / e-Book
A Cajun Christmas Killing, September 2018
Cajun Country Mystery #3
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
A Cajun Christmas Killing, October 2017
Cajun Country #3
Hardcover / e-Book
Body On The Bayou, September 2016
A Cajun Country Mystery #2
Hardcover / e-Book
Plantation Shudders, August 2015
Cajun Country Mystery, #1
Paperback / e-Book

 

 

 

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