Check in for some Southern hospitality in Plantation Shudders, the Cajun Country series debut from Ellen Byron.
It's the end of the summer and Prodigal Daughter Maggie Crozat has returned home to her family's plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana. The Crozats have an inn full of guests for the local food festival—elderly honeymooners, the Cajun Cuties, a mysterious stranger from Texas, a couple of hipster lovebirds, and a trio of Georgia frat boys. But when the elderly couple keels over dead within minutes of each other – one from very unnatural causes – Maggie and her family suddenly become suspects in a murder.
With the help of Bo Durand, the town's handsome new detective, Maggie must investigate to clear her name while holding the family business together at the same time. And the deeper she digs, the more she wonders: are all of the guests really there for a vacation or do they have ulterior motives? Decades-old secrets and stunning revelations abound in Ellen Byron’s charming cozy debut, Plantation Shudders.
Oh boy! I giggled, I gasped, I groaned (in a good way) and I kept turning the pages!
Maggie has arrived home and is helping to run the B & B that the family has set up in the family Plantation, everything is going fairly smoothly until the latest round of guests arrive and a few days in an elderly couple are both dead, one from natural causes and the other …. well NOT!
With the Chief of Police (Rufus Durand) dragging his feet (as he hates all the Crozats and would be glad to see the B & B go bust), an unusual mix of visitors having to stay on (which means having to stay for free!) and the new Detective being Rufus's cousin, Maggie (and a friend of hers) takes it upon herself to find out what happened, and then there was another death. Now it becomes even more vital to get the business up and running again!
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