Jacklyn Brady
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Rita Lucero, owner of New Orleans cake shop Zydeco Cakes, can't seem to stop saying "yes." Even though things at the bakery are busy, Rita finds herself accepting a seat on the local small business alliance, a group full of colorful characters like Chopper Shop owner Moose Hazen and his wife, Destiny, whose personal life is messier than a cake someone left out in the rain. On the street following a heated alliance meeting, Moose pulls Rita out of...
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"Rita Lucero, co-owner of New Orleans' Zydeco Cakes, is thrilled to be catering an annual ball at the Monte Cristo Hotel. Designing the high-end desserts is her priority -- until she stumbles upon a mystery at her shop. It's an ornate ruby necklace, hidden beneath her staircase and said to be cursed. After the appraiser drops dead and Rita is targeted by a menacing stranger, she's no longer laughing at local superstition. And when the necklace's past...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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It's carnival season in New Orleans, and pastry chef Rita Lucero has enough on her plate just filling orders for king cakes. Now she's expected to host a Mardi Gras party for hundreds of her ex-husband's closest friends, and then her aunt Yolanda and uncle Nestor pay a surprise visit. But when local celebrity Big Daddy Boudreaux turns up dead at the Mardi Gras party after a public fight with her uncle, Rita has to find time to prove that the killer...
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Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Halloween is approaching, and Zydeco Cakes co-owners Rita Lucero and her former mother-in-law, Miss Frankie, have scored a fantastic catering opportunity. Then Miss Frankie's neighbor, Bernice, barrels into her kitchen toting a Bible and a gun and swears she just saw the ghost of her moonshiner uncle who disappeared in the swamp fifteen years ago. And when her cousin goes missing in the same swamp, Bernice convinces Rita and Miss Frankie to help."...
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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With business going stale at Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero has plenty of worries. But blind trumpet player Old Dog Leg Magee needs a favor. His brother, Monroe, disappeared forty years ago, and someone is now claiming to be him. Old Dog Leg needs Rita to be his eyes, and sets her up with sexy Cajun bartender Gabriel Broussard to pose as newlyweds and check into the bed-and-breakfast where Monroe is staying - and where a murder has just occurred.