The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they’ve managed to survive the scandal. Now there’s a très bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat’s nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer.
Maggie, inexplicably tasked with being Vanessa's Maid of Honor, quickly discovers why everyone else refused the assignment when the Bridezilla hands her a long list of duties — the most important of which is entertaining Vanessa’s cousin, Ginger Fleer-Starke, a mysterious woman with dangerous secrets. But just days before the wedding, Ginger’s lifeless body is found on the bayou behind Crozat Plantation and the Pelican PD, as well as the Crozats, have another murder mystery on their hands.
There’s a gumbo-potful of suspects, including an ex-Marine with PTSD, an annoying local newspaper reporter, and Vanessa’s own sparkplug of a mother. But when it looks like the investigation is zeroing in on Vanessa as the prime suspect, Maggie reluctantly adds keeping the bride-to-be out of jail to her list of Maid of Honor responsibilities in Body on the Bayou, the second in Ellen Byron's charming and witty series.
Another giggle and gasp story from the pen of Ellen Byron.
The Crozats weathered the storm of the murders in Plantation Shudders but Maggie is not sure she can weather what is happening now, basically she has been landed with the very onerous task of being the Maid of Honour to a very pregnant Vanessa Fleer (known to Maggie and her other co-workers at the Doucet Plantation as The Loch Nessa Monster!), Vanessa has turned into a total Bridezilla, but that seems to be the least of Maggie's worries, one of Vanessa's cousins is staying at the Crozat B & B along with her two work colleagues, and it seems Ginger Fleer-Starke has form for suing people for the slightest thing (and apparently winning most of them), so that is one problem, then they have found a couple of stray animals - a cat and a dog, both with 3 little ones!, oh and Bo Durand's ex-wife is back on the scene and seems to want Bo back.
Then Ginger is murdered, and Vanessa is one of the people who could have done the deed - now Maggie has "Keep Vanessa out of jail" at the top of her Maid of Honour list of duties, but is it a task too far when there is another death?
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