Maria DiRico

(aka Ellen Byron)

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

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

Written as Ellen Byron:

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   ’22

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