Ellen Byron

(aka Maria DiRico)

Click here for a post I’ve written about Ellen Byron’s Cajun Country Mystery Series.

GOLDEN MOTEL MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Dee Stern, sitcom writer in a national park, owner of the Golden Motel-of-the-Mountains, a hotel for hikers

1. A Very Woodsy Murder   ’24

VINTAGE COOKBOOK MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Ricki James, young widow recently returning to New Orleans, to work in a culinary museum

1. Bayou Book Thief   ’22
2. Wined and Died in New Orleans   ’23
3. French Quarter Fright Night   ’24
4. Beignets and Bribes   ’24

CAJUN COUNTRY MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Maggie Crozat, manager of her family’s plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast, Louisiana

1. Plantation Shudders    ’15
2. Body on the Bayou    ’16
3. A Cajun Christmas Killing    ’17
4. Mardi Gras Murder    ’18
5. Fatal Cajun Festival    ’19
6. Murder in the Bayou Boneyard   ’20
7. Cajun Kiss of Death   ’21

Written as Maria DiRico:
CATERING HALL MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Mia Carina, manager worker at Belle View, her father’s catering hall in Astoria, a neighborhood in New York City

1. Here Comes the Body   ’20
2. Long Island Iced Tina   ’21
3. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder   ’21
4. Four Parties and a Funeral   ’23
5. The Witless Protection Program   ’24