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Muffalettas and Murder: Small Town Girl Mysteries
by Jann Franklin
Muffalettas and Murder: Small Town Girl Mysteries
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Louisiana
Publisher : Rougarou Press (January 30, 2023)
Paperback : 238 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8987739402
Digital ASIN : B0BPQYJQ3T
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Evangeline Delafose is finding Graisseville, Louisiana just as she remembered—boring and uneventful. Until her brother Nate asks her to help solve a murder.
Follow Ev as she navigates clues, dead bodies, and quirky small-town residents to solve a mystery. And of course, show her little brother that she’s still got it.
If you like cozy mysteries with twists and turns, deep South settings, and a hint of romance, you’ll love this series! Let’s not forget quirky yet charming characters who remind you of family—sometimes you want to hug them, and sometimes you want to disown them. Enjoy small town Graisseville with Ev as she solves crime with help from her family and friends. This is a clean faith based read with no profanity, sex, or graphic violence.
This book is the first of the Small-Town Girl Mystery Series.
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In my first in series, “Muffalettas and Murder”, Evangeline Delafose can’t pay her private investigator. They are childhood friends, and she knows how much he adores her mother’s muffalettas. She pitches the idea of paying him with the tasty Louisiana tradition instead of cash, and he eagerly accepts.
The muffaletta (also spelled muffuletta) traces its roots back to early 1900 New Orleans. Salvatore Lupo set up his shop, Central Grocery along with a flood of other immigrants with the same idea—to peddle delicious food from their home country. Salvatore noticed his customers purchasing the ingredients separately, and came up with the brilliant idea to slice a loaf in half and put them all together as a sandwich.
The soft round bread was called muffuletto, so Salvadore borrowed the name for his sandwich. Eventually, the name morphed into muffaletta or muffuletta, and the sandwiches became part of New Orleans culture.
You can make your own muffalettas, completely by scratch or with a few cheats 😊 :
INGREDIENTS:
- Round Italian bread
- Smoked ham
- Pastrami
- Salami
- Provolone cheese slices
- Mozzarella cheese slices
- Olive spread- from Jason’s Deli or Amazon link
- Tony Chachere’s seasoning Amazon link
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Cut loaves of bread in half horizontally, hollow out some of the excess bread to make room
- Spread each piece of bread with equal amounts of olive spread
- Layer bottom half of each loaf with salami, ham, mozzarella, provolone
- Replace top half on each loaf and cut sandwiches into quarters
- Serve immediately, or wrap tightly and refrigerate for a few hours to all flavors to mingle and olive spread to soak into the bread
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About Jann Franklin
Jann Franklin is a faith-based cozy mystery writer living in Grand Cane, Louisiana with slightly less than three hundred other people. Many of her stories are based on the tales she hears from residents.
She and her husband John enjoy Sundays at Grand Cane Baptist Church, dinner with family and friends, and watching the lightning bugs in their backyard. Their kids come to visit, when they aren’t too busy living their big-city lives. Visit her at www.jannfranklin.com
Author Links: Website / Blog / Facebook / Instagram / Goodreads
Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Kobo – Bookshop.org
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This sounds wonderful. I actually met the author and her husband when I was at an author visit from Brenda Novak.