October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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All Aboard for Murder, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Solid Gold Murder, July 2026
Trade Paperback
Solid Gold Murder, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
A Very Woodsy Murder, June 2025
Trade Paperback
A Very Woodsy Murder, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Wined and Died in New Orleans, February 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bayou Book Thief, June 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Fatal Cajun Festival, September 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Mardi Gras Murder, October 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
A Cajun Christmas Killing, September 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
A Cajun Christmas Killing, October 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Body On The Bayou, September 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Plantation Shudders, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book

MARDI GRAS MURDER
By: Ellen Byron

Cajun Country
Crooked Lane Books
October 2018
On Sale: October 9, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 168331705X
EAN: 9781683317050
Kindle: B078LZ5W3H
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron is back at it with fan-favorite plantation B&B owner Maggie Crozat in a fourth installment of the Cajun Country mysteries.

Southern charm meets the dark mystery of the bayou as a hundred-year flood, a malicious murder, and a most unusual Mardi Gras converge at the Crozat Plantation B&B.

It’s Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana—and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B&B—the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. The citizens of Pelican are ready to Laissez les bon temps rouler—but there’s beaucoup bad blood on hand this Mardi Gras.

Maggie Crozat is determined to give the stranger a name and find out why he was murdered. The post-flood recovery has delayed the opening of a controversial exhibit about the little-known Louisiana Orphan Train. And when a judge for the Miss Pelican Mardi Gras Gumbo Queen pageant is shot, Maggie’s convinced the murder is connected to the body on the bayou. Does someone covet the pageant queen crown enough to kill for it? Could the deaths be related to the Orphan Train, which delivered its last charges to Louisiana in 1929? The leads are thin on this Fat Tuesday—and until the killer is unmasked, no one in Pelican is safe.

A simmering gumbo of a humorous whodunit, Mardi Gras Murder is the fourth piquant installment in USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron’s award-winning Cajun Country mysteries.