Mardi Gras murder
(Book)

"Includes recipes"--Cover.

A flood, a murdered stranger, and a controversial historical exhibit cast a shadow over Pelican, Louisiana's Mardi Gras preparations.

When a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana during Mardi Gras season-- and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B & B-- Maggie Crozat is determined to give the stranger a name and find out why he was murdered. The post-flood recovery has delayed the opening of a controversial exhibit about the little-known Louisiana Orphan Train. And when a judge for the Miss Pelican Mardi Gras Gumbo Queen pageant is shot, Maggie's convinced the murder is connected to the body on the bayou. Does someone covet the pageant queen crown enough to kill for it? Or could the deaths be related to the Orphan Train, which delivered its last charges to Louisiana in 1929? -- adapted from jacket.