Secrets, Lies, & Crawfish Pies

By Abby L. Vandiver

Book Overview

Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she's forced to return to her hometown of Roble in East Texas, leaving behind the man she's dating and the life she's worked hard to build.

Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine's Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long since traded her French Creole upbringing for Big Texas attitude. She's a member in a number of ladies' auxiliaries and clubs, including being in charge of the Tri-County Annual Crawfish Boil and Music Festival.

Hanging on to the magic of her Louisiana roots, she's cooked up a love potion or two--if she could only get Romaine to drink it. But her plans are derailed when the Ball Funeral Home, bursting at the seams with dead bodies, has a squatter stiff.

Dead Guy is a problem.

Auntie Zanne can't abide by a murderer using her funeral home as the dumping grounds for their crimes, and Romaine doesn't want her newly elected cousin, Sheriff Pogue Folsom, to fail on his first murder case. Together, Romaine and Auntie Zanne set off to solve it.

With a dash of humor, a dollop of Southern charm, and a peek at current social issues in the mix, it's a fun romp around East Texas to solve a murder mystery of the cozy kind.

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SECRETS, LIES, & CRAWFISH PIES by Abby L. Vandiver A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.

Praise:

"The amusing narrative zips along, providing a multilayered plot with loads of plausible suspects and possible motives. Cozy fans will look forward to Romaine's future exploits." - Publishers Weekly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635113466
• ISBN13: 9781635113464
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Henery Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Cajun antics in East Texas

What a delightful read! Lots of great characters with quirky personalities. It's obvious that the author spent a lot of time developing them and wanted you to become a part of the town of Roble, TX. Great mystery from the very first of the book and keeps you guessing until the end. I had a clue, but wasn't sure which person might be guilty of murder until the very end. But it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out right away, because the story is full of twists and turns and lots of crazy antics. Auntie Zanne has you chuckling and understanding how Romaine could lose her cool with her aunt. It appears this book sets things up for a sequel and I am looking anxiously forward to seeing what happens with Romaine and a couple of interested "fellas". The book moves along quickly and you are constantly facing a new clue as you try to figure out the identity of the dead body found at the funeral home and how he got there. The one negative aspect is that I did not like the situation Romaine left in Chicago. She's too smart to put up with that type of relationship. But we'll see what happens when the next book comes out...hopefully soon! Thank you to Henery Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.