{"id":9,"date":"2020-08-09T00:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2020-08-10T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:40:02","slug":"french-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Crime Br\u00fbl\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by Nancy Fairbanks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big-631x1024.jpg 631w, https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big-768x1247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big-946x1536.jpg 946w, https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/crime_big.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning.&nbsp; She&#8217;s finally decided to throw in the dishtowel\u2014and take on a dream job as a food writer and traveler to exotic places.&nbsp; With a contract to write a book about New Orleans cuisine, Carolyn accompanies her husband to an academic conference in the &#8216;Big Easy&#8217;\u2014an event&nbsp; that will mean visiting with old college pals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just as she gets a taste of Creole, she gets a bite of crime&#8230; Her childhood friend, Professor Julienne Magnussen, disappears from the reunion dinner.&nbsp; True, Julienne has been fighting with her husband, but this only worries Carolyn more.&nbsp; Now, she has to combine taste-testing with a search for the missing scientist whom no one, including the police, believes is really in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trail leads Carolyn from the streets of the French Quarter to an alligator swamp, where she&#8217;d better act fast.&nbsp; In these parts, it&#8217;s eat or be eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0425179184\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy @ Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nancy Fairbanks Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning.&nbsp; She&#8217;s finally decided to throw in the dishtowel\u2014and take on a dream job as a food writer and traveler to exotic places.&nbsp; With a contract to write a book about New Orleans cuisine, Carolyn accompanies her husband to an academic conference in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/?p=9\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crime Br\u00fbl\u00e9e<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[6,9,4,5,8],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-blue-mystery-series","category-mystery","tag-carolyn-blue","tag-culinary","tag-mystery","tag-nancy-fairbanks","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyfairbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}