September mysteries set on Great River Road

Love a good mystery, but it's doubly entertaining when it's set in Louisiana? Here are a couple new books on the market now and both have mysteries set along the Great River Road.

Ellen Byron continues her Cajun Country Mystery series with “Fatal Cajun Festival” where Louisiana BnB owner Maggie Crozat kicks up her heels at a country music festival, but she'll have one foot in the grave if she can't bring the killer of a diva's hanger-on to heel.

Here's the book description:
Grab your tickets for Cajun Country Live!, the pickers' and crooners' answer to the legendary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation BnB, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls. The festival's headliner, native daughter Tammy Barker, rocketed to stardom on a TV singing competition. She has the voice of an angel...and the personality of a devilish diva. But Maggie learns that this tiny terror carries a grudge against Gaynell. She's already sabotaged the Gator Girls' JazzFest audition. When a member of Tammy's entourage is murdered at the festival, Tammy makes sure Gaynell is number one on the suspect list. Gaynell has plenty of company on that list--including every one of Tammy's musicians. Posing as a groupie, Maggie infiltrates Tammy's band and will have to hit all the right notes to clear her friend's name.

 

Sandra Bretting continues her Missy DuBois Mystery series, which follows milliner and Southern Belle Missy DuBois of Louisiana (Lyrical Press), with “All Hats on Deck.” 

Here’s the book description: 

When Ruby Oubre asks Missy (a Louisiana hat maker) to advise her grandson on a business idea, the successful owner of Crowning Glory is happy to oblige. After a quick jaunt down the river, Missy meets with eighteen-year-old Hollis about the viability of opening an alligator farm for tourists. But it isn’t an alligator Missy finds floating at the mossy bottom of the Atchafalaya River. It’s Ruby, and her death wasn’t caused by accidental drowning. It seems everyone from local tour boat operators to the chief of police and the mayor of Bleu Bayou had an eye on snatching up Ruby’s riverbank property. If Missy doesn’t unveil a greedy killer soon, her hat-making career could be bogged down for good . . .

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery. Her fifth mystery, "Give Up the Ghost" releases Oct. 13, 2019.