French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook) by Ellen Byron

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French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook) by Ellen Byron

French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – the Garden District of New Orleans
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House (September 3, 2024)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages

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?

My review of French Quarter Fright Night

I’ve been waiting a year and a half for the latest book in the Vintage Cookbook mystery series, and French Quarter Fright Night was totally worth the wait! Ellen Byron knows how to write a cozy mystery that’s not only puzzling but also completely fun!

It’s the Halloween season, and Ricki James-Diaz along with the rest of the Bon Vee Culinary House Museum staff are planning to turn the museum into a haunted house. And, wouldn’t you know it? A dead body turns up in the spooky tomb they’ve set up for the haunted house! Of course, the staff are all suspects…again!

Truthfully, I loved everything about French Quarter Fright Night! Fall is the perfect time of year to read Halloween cozy mysteries, and the New Orleans setting, where there’s a lot of spooky stuff all year, makes it even more of a fall must-read! Byron brings the haunted house to life with her descriptive writing. I love the Miss Havisham theme that Eugenia suggests. That’s probably my favorite thing about Great Expectations, and it is perfect for a haunted house.

Of course, Ricki’s shop where she sells vintage cookbooks and vintage kitchen themed items is all decked out for the season too, and she’s getting lots of business! One reason behind that extra business has to do with Bon Vee’s newest neighbor…movie star Blaine Taggart. Everyone is hoping to get a glimpse of him…everyone but Ricki. You’ll find out why when you read the book!

I simply love the characters, and Byron excels at writing characters that leap off of the page! There are twins who are in their mid-sixties that cracked me up with their matching costumes especially given the fact that they’re different genders! I really enjoyed getting to reconnect with all of the characters from the previous books, but if you haven’t read the first two, you’ll still be completely entertained by them. Furthermore, you’ll enjoy trying to solve the murder along with the characters! There are plenty of red herrings to throw you off track, but if you follow the clues carefully, you’ll figure it out!

I highly recommend French Quarter Fright Night! The Halloween in New Orleans setting, haunted house, entertaining characters, witty dialog, and not so easy to solve mystery make this a must read cozy mystery book!

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.

About Ellen Byron

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). Her new series, The Golden Motel Mysteries, recently debuted. 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. Visit her at Cozy Mysteries | Ellen Byron | Author

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