Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron

Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron

A fantastic new cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.

Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid internet stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki's teen mother disappeared from the hospital.
 
Ricki's dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the spectacular former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve "Vee" Charbonnet, the city's legendary restauranteur. Ricki is excited about turning her avocation - collecting vintage cookbooks - into a vocation by launching the museum's gift shop, Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware. Then she discovers that a box of donated vintage cookbooks contains the body of a cantankerous Bon Vee employee who was fired after being exposed as a book thief.
 
The skills Ricki has developed ferreting out hidden vintage treasures come in handy for investigations. But both her business and Bon Vee could wind up as deadstock when Ricki's past as curator of a billionaire's first edition collection comes back to haunt her.
 
Will Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware be a success ... or a recipe for disaster?
 

Ellen Byron is a television writer, playwright, and freelance journalist who has written for USA Today. Wings, Still Standing, and Just Shoot Me are among her TV credits, and her writing has featured in Glamour, Redbook, and Seventeen, among other publications. She currently resides in the Los Angeles region with her husband, daughter, and the family's spoilt rescue dog. Ellen, a native New Yorker, still pines for her hometown and drives like a New York taxi driver. This is her third mystery set in Cajun Country.

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ISBN 13	9780593437612
ISBN 10	0593437616
Title	Bayou Book Thief
Author	Ellen Byron
Series	Vintage Cookbook Mystery Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2022-06-07
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Commended for Agatha Awards (Best Contemporary Novel) 2022
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.