{"id":24663,"date":"2019-09-24T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=24663"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:38:32","slug":"review-fatal-cajun-festival-by-ellen-byron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/review-fatal-cajun-festival-by-ellen-byron\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-24663\" data-postid=\"24663\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-24663 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_dfji032 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_wizr072 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_4u77077 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fatal-cajun-festival-ellen-byron.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_bgt7077 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b><i>Louisiana B&amp;B owner Maggie Crozat kicks up her heels at a country music festival&#8211;but she&#8217;ll have one foot in the grave if she can&#8217;t bring the killer of a diva&#8217;s hanger-on to heel.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Grab your tickets for Cajun Country Live!, the pickers&#8217; and crooners&#8217; answer to the legendary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation B&amp;B, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The festival&#8217;s headliner, native daughter Tammy Barker, rocketed to stardom on a TV singing competition. She has the voice of an angel&#8230;and the personality of a devilish diva. But Maggie learns that this tiny terror carries a grudge against Gaynell. She&#8217;s already sabotaged the Gator Girls&#8217; JazzFest audition. When a member of Tammy&#8217;s entourage is murdered at the festival, Tammy makes sure Gaynell is number one on the suspect list.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Gaynell has plenty of company on that list&#8211;including every one of Tammy&#8217;s musicians. Posing as a groupie, Maggie infiltrates Tammy&#8217;s band and will have to hit all the right notes to clear her friend&#8217;s name.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_hwv0707 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_22r4730  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/4-hearts.jpg?resize=170%2C44\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Sep 10, 2019<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Cajun Country Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>5<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Crooked Lane Books<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $12.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maggie Crozat and her fianc\u00e9, Bo Durand, put their wedding planning on hold to help Maggie\u2019s grandmother plan a music festival to attract tourists to Pelican, Louisiana. Gran\u2019s idea will help the whole town and has brought more business to their family\u2019s hotel. The festival\u2019s headliner, Tammy Barker, has booked all the rooms at Crozat Plantation Bed and Breakfast for her return to Pelican from Los Angeles. Many people in Pelican are thrilled to see their hometown hero again. However, one of Maggie\u2019s best friends, Gaynell Bourgeois, doesn\u2019t have such fond memories of Tammy, who bullied her in high school. A suspicious death at the musical festival puts Gaynell in the spotlight as the prime suspect, so it\u2019s up to Maggie to prove her friend\u2019s innocence.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fatal Cajun Festival <\/strong>is the fifth book in the <em>Cajun Country Mystery series<\/em>, but\u00a0 the \u201cCast of Characters\u201d at the beginning of the book makes it easy for new readers to catch up. I have read each of the prior books and have liked the main character, Maggie, from the very beginning. She has shown how devoted she is to her family time and time again, and this time, she shows how loyal she is to her friends. She not only stands behind Gaynell no matter how bad the situation looks for her, she actively looks for evidence to clear her friend\u2019s name.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like that even though Maggie investigates some things on her own, she regularly fills Bo in on the direction of her sleuthing so they can compare notes and to minimize the chances of putting herself in danger. Trouble still seems to find her, but she has Bo\u2019s support and respect for Maggie\u2019s contributions to the investigation. Some clues are given to the identity of the killer, but things gets fairly complicated so I didn\u2019t begin to guess the truth. When everything is revealed at the end, I was very surprised. I really enjoyed the epilogue which sets up something wonderful that I assume will be the highlight of a future book. The descriptions throughout the story really transport the reader to Louisiana\u2019s Cajun Country. 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Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation B&amp;B, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls.<br \/><br \/>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.<br \/><br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/4-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Sep 10, 2019<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Cajun Country Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>5<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Crooked Lane Books<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $12.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maggie Crozat and her fianc\u00e9, Bo Durand, put their wedding planning on hold to help Maggie\u2019s grandmother plan a music festival to attract tourists to Pelican, Louisiana. Gran\u2019s idea will help the whole town and has brought more business to their family\u2019s hotel. The festival\u2019s headliner, Tammy Barker, has booked all the rooms at Crozat Plantation Bed and Breakfast for her return to Pelican from Los Angeles. Many people in Pelican are thrilled to see their hometown hero again. However, one of Maggie\u2019s best friends, Gaynell Bourgeois, doesn\u2019t have such fond memories of Tammy, who bullied her in high school. A suspicious death at the musical festival puts Gaynell in the spotlight as the prime suspect, so it\u2019s up to Maggie to prove her friend\u2019s innocence.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fatal Cajun Festival <\/strong>is the fifth book in the <em>Cajun Country Mystery series<\/em>, but\u00a0 the \u201cCast of Characters\u201d at the beginning of the book makes it easy for new readers to catch up. I have read each of the prior books and have liked the main character, Maggie, from the very beginning. She has shown how devoted she is to her family time and time again, and this time, she shows how loyal she is to her friends. She not only stands behind Gaynell no matter how bad the situation looks for her, she actively looks for evidence to clear her friend\u2019s name.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like that even though Maggie investigates some things on her own, she regularly fills Bo in on the direction of her sleuthing so they can compare notes and to minimize the chances of putting herself in danger. Trouble still seems to find her, but she has Bo\u2019s support and respect for Maggie\u2019s contributions to the investigation. Some clues are given to the identity of the killer, but things gets fairly complicated so I didn\u2019t begin to guess the truth. When everything is revealed at the end, I was very surprised. I really enjoyed the epilogue which sets up something wonderful that I assume will be the highlight of a future book. The descriptions throughout the story really transport the reader to Louisiana\u2019s Cajun Country. The setting and the characters have made this a series in which I eagerly anticipate reading each new installment.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2kSEYYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/fatal-cajun-festival\/id1462803406?mt=11&amp;app=itunes&amp;at=11l88k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/fatal-cajun-festival-ellen-byron\/1132053733?ean=9781643851297#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/fatal-cajun-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}