The Lost Weekend #SampleSunday

Mary-Alice and the Sinful Ladies have to find out what Mary-Alice's cousin Celia Arceneaux is hiding, and find it fast...or Mary-Alice will pay with her freedom.
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The Pajama Murder #SampleSunday

Local businessman Buford Fontleroy Deale III is found shot dead in front of Harriet's Books in downtown Sinful. A blood-soaked pajama top is tied around his chest. And he's wearing only one shoe.
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Vampire Billionaire of the Bayou #SampleSunday

Mary-Alice preferred small-town papers to the big-city ones. The local papers featured good news, like high school valedictorians and award-winning pumpkins. The big newspapers showcased all the worst explosions, fires, famines, and murders from all over the world. Mary-Alice didn’t think human beings were intended to take on all the world’s misery at once. One town’s problems were surely enough.
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The No-Tell Motel #SampleSunday

Mary-Alice preferred small-town papers to the big-city ones. The local papers featured good news, like high school valedictorians and award-winning pumpkins. The big newspapers showcased all the worst explosions, fires, famines, and murders from all over the world. Mary-Alice didn’t think human beings were intended to take on all the world’s misery at once. One town’s problems were surely enough.
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Black Widow Valley #SampleSunday

Althea’s children had known of Mary-Alice's arrival, and there must be dozens of rooms in this old house.  What were they hiding?
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The Two-Body Problem #SampleSunday

When the owner of the French Quarter's premier joke and novelty shop, Jape & Jest, dies, Mary-Alice and Swamp Team Three investigate. But the ladies soon find that nothing is as it seems in this case, and an unseen killer might have the last laugh. 
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The Vanishing Victim #SampleSunday

“I remember Miss Leonie Blanchard,” Gertie said. “I had to suspend her several times for smoking in school.” “I thought you taught third grade,” Fortune said. "I did."
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Bayou Busybody #SampleSunday

Mary-Alice Arceneaux settles in to Sinful, Louisiana.
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Mary-Alice Moves In. #SampleSunday

The two women headed up the street to where the Baptist and the Catholic churches faced each other across the road. Mary-Alice thought of West Side Story. She envisioned the Baptist ladies facing off against Celia and her friends, both sides snapping their fingers and menacing each other with jazz hands.
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Schooled. #SampleSunday

"What's Celia complaining about this time? Did I wash my car on a Tuesday? Wear off-white before Labor Day?" Sheriff Lee fidgeted and cleared his throat. "Celia Arceneaux is dead, Fortune."
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Cooking up trouble in Tabasco Fiasco #SampleSunday

I found cooking to be something of a mystery. Fortunately, I had a strong stomach and what a fellow agent once enviously described as "taste buds of steel."
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#SampleSunday at the romance convention with Fortune, Gertie, and Ida Belle

Look, this is kind of embarrassing to admit, but... I see all these sexy guys on these book covers and every one of them makes me think of Carter LeBlanc.
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#SampleSunday Sinful Science, a Miss Fortune mystery

Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, was a man with a wolf's head. The Navajo skin walkers could turn into any animal they pleased. And of course there was the Hồ tinh, Hanoi's nine-tailed fox.
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Mardi Gras Murder: Review, Character Interview, and #Giveaway

It’s Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana—and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B&B—the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. The citizens of Pelican are ready to laissez les bon temps rouler—but there’s beaucoup … Continue reading Mardi Gras Murder: Review, Character Interview, and #Giveaway
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The Miss Fortune Novellas are now available in all formats, all countries!

The Miss Fortune mysteries are novellas written under license in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune World. If you want to get acquainted with the characters, the first book in the Miss Fortune series is Louisiana Longshot, available for free on Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Google, and B&N. Supernatural Sinful A graduate student from Hawaii visits the tiny … Continue reading The Miss Fortune Novellas are now available in all formats, all countries!
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New from Ellen Byron: A Cajun Christmas Killing

>>>Enter to Win a hardcover copy of A Cajun Christmas Killing (plus swag)<<< 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 […]
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A New Miss Fortune Mystery Novella: The Pajama Murder

Deputy Sheriff Carter LeBlanc was a fine young man, Mary-Alice thought, although a bit lacking in imagination. He seemed to believe civilians had nothing of value to contribute to murder investigations—that their place was to answer questions and otherwise stay out of things. In Mary-Alice’s opinion, he was quite mistaken. Local businessman Buford Fontleroy Deale […]
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New Twin Sisters Mystery: Dead on the Bayou

>>> Enter to win an e-copy of Dead on the Bayou <<<It may be easier to patch up an old home than a broken heart. But along the Louisiana bayou, where beauty and danger mingle all too seamlessly, thoughts of romance may have to simmer on the back burner . . . Twin sisters and […]
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A novella a month: How’s my 2017 resolution going?

So far so good! January: To solve the mystery of a disappearing corpse, Mary-Alice has to endure a visit to the Swamp Bar (where decent ladies don’t go) and battle her vindictive cousin, Mayor Celia Arceneaux. Will her gentle temper and unshakable faith in human nature endure?   The Vanishing Victim February: Mary-Alice Arceneaux just got […]
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A new Washington Whodunit: Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan

>>> Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! <<< The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington D.C.’s swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall’s upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a visit. Annoyed that Kit has not set a […]
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