Bayou Book Thief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593437612)

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?


Author: Ellen Byron
ISBN-10: 0593437616
ISBN-13: 9780593437612
Publisher: Berkley Books
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 1.00d
Award: Agatha Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2022 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2022
Library Journal 05/01/2022 pg. 73