In this recipe-stuffed cozy mystery, B&B owner Maggie Crozat joins forces with her longtime enemy to prevent a murderous Grinch from ruining Christmas Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to … Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B. When he floods travel websites with vicious reviews, Maggie thinks she’s identified him as rival businessman Donald Baxter. That is, until he’s found stabbed to death at Maggie’s workplace. And Maggie and her loved ones become top suspects.
The Crozats quickly establish alibis, but Maggie’s boyfriend, Detective Bo Durand, remains under suspicion. With Bo sidelined during the investigation, Maggie finds herself forced to work with an unlikely ally: longtime family enemy Rufus Durand. Her sleuthing uncovers more suspects than drummers drumming, and lands her in the crosshairs of the murderer.
The sleigh bells are jingling, and the clock is ticking for Maggie and Rufus, who must catch the killer or it will be the opposite of a Joyeux Noël in A Cajun Christmas Killing, the recipe-stuffed third installment of USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron’s Cajun Country mysteries.
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This is the best so far in the series. Wonderful details about Christmas in Louisiana so you feel like you’re there. Great mystery with no shortage of suspects. Loved how Rufus has developed and grown as a character. Lots of surprises and great to see the other characters growing also.
I have been utterly charmed by this series. Even though every book adds to Maggie’s discovered-body count, there’s something kind of light and fun about the stories. The villains and their machinations continue to be downright evil, but the citizens of Pelican we’ve been introduced to so far still have an ease about them. Besides the fact that I’ve spent part of every book laughing my behind off, I love this series so much for the fact that I have not yet been able to outthink the plot. I’ve always got my pet theories, but by the end of every book I’ve been proven wrong. I kind of never want to see this series end.
I read a borrowed copy of this book.