Dead and Breakfast — Colleen Mooney

Maybe she shouldn't have answered the phone… Brandy Alexander never set out to be solving crimes. Just because meeting her new boyfriend, Jiff Heinkel, had once thrust her into one, that's no reason why she should be the first phone call made when her friend discovers a dead body at her new Bed & Breakfast. Especially when offering Julia help will throw Brandy right back together with her ex â€" Police Detective Dante Deedler. Maybe she should have just said no… Likewise, the last thing Brandy needs while searching for the truth behind what happened at the B & B is to find herself Maid of Honor in a great big Italian Wedding. But how can she say no when the mother she always manages to disappoint is saying yes. Now she's squeezing fittings for unflattering dresses in with investigating and questioning people who knew the victim. Maybe she can get through this and keep her sanity… But, keeping the two men who both seem to want something from her away from each other while helping her very guilty looking friend and the kooky B&B staff, has her craving nothing more than a table for one and a whole King Cake. There's no place like New Orleans to have a good crime.