Smakebit på Søndag; Murder in the Bayou Boneyard (A Cajun Country Mystery) av Ellen Byron

Smakebit på Søndag er et ukentlig tema som blir arrangert av Betraktninger og Flukten fra virkeligheten og jeg hadde lyst til å delta denne uken.

Nylig mottok jeg et digitalt forhåndseksemplar av Murder in the Bayou Boneyard (A Cajun Country Mystery) av Ellen Byron via Netgalley og den blir lansert i september. Boka omhandler en familie som driver en B&B utenfor New Orleans, og det er en del arrangementer for å få flere besøkende rundt Halloween. Det blir en liten utfordring når en person i et rougarou-kostyme blir drept.

Her er i hvert fall en liten smakebit fra prologen.

“It’s a good thing we lay our departed to rest aboveground,” Gran whispered to Maggie. “Because if I sunk any further, I’d be standing on a coffin.” 

A cold rain dripped down on the small group of mourners huddled under their umbrellas in the derelict Louisiana graveyard. They listened politely as Father Prit led prayers for Etienne Dupois, an octogenarian who had died during a randy romp with a fellow resident at the Camellia Park Senior Village. No one at the grave site was related to Etienne, a man whose only goal seemed to have been throwing an endless party while the Dupois Plantation home crumbled and its famed gardens were reclaimed by vines, weeds, and snakes. Still, Etienne was a Dupois, and his respected ancestry meant something in tiny Pelican, Louisiana, which is why the feet of a small portion of the town’s citizenry—including Maggie, her parents, and her grand-mère—were sinking into the muddy ground of the Dupois family’s centuries-old resting place.