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Bayou Book Thief
Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron
3 posts | 4 read | 2 to read
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 Ricky 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?
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron
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Mehso-so

Don't get me wrong, the writing, the character development is a LOT better than Murder at Pirate's Cove, but I did find myself drawing parallels: cozy mystery involving person new to the area just taking on the position of book shop proprietor, introduced slow burn love interest, protagonist kind of clumsy in amateur investigating, more up front with police than one might expect, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? and another series where I won't totally rule out picking up the next book in the series but...not feeling the urge immediately.
There are some fun characters here but there's also hints of some features which I tend to think of as 'Southern romance' tropes: 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? ~The protagonist is self-effacing/insecure, and proven to be more virtuous the more crap she suffers through without calling someone out on it. Others may do so on her behalf.
~The male love interest is partially identified by more bold (and by insinuation automatically less attractive 🙄) women hitting on him. 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? ~ Some minor villiains are identified clearly not just because they are involved in shady dealings, but because they are uncouth, dress cheaply, look untidy, speak crassly, have disintegrating environs (kind of feels like people forget economic disadvantages are a thing?). 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 There are characters introduced just to be a friction point, which, okay, conflict is part (necessary to?) of a lot of plots, fair, but I have a certain threshold for asshole behaviour in my escapist reading and this kept pushing the red line.
So, yeah, going to have to weigh the cons before I consider picking up another in the series. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 6mo
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Preciouz29
Preciouz29
Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron
Pickpick

Great start to a new series!

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Dollycas
Dollycas
Bayou Book Thief | Ellen Byron
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Pickpick

Diverse characters, a fun location, and a puzzling mystery have me declaring this book A Perfect Escape.

Read my full review here: https://www.escapewithdollycas.com/2022/06/16/bayou-book-thief-a-vintage-cookboo...

julieclair Ooohhh.... This one looks like a fun one to consider for our Cozy Mystery group for #LitsyMarkupPostalBookClub, #LMPBC #Round15 #GroupM! We begin on July 1, and currently have 2 slots open. Anyone want to join @Kgordon88 and me? Check out the post by @suvata for details and a link to sign up. 😀 2y
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