Under the Cajun Moon

"UNDER THE CAJUN MOON" by Mindy Starns Clark kept me riveted from the first page to the last. It is a wonderful romance, with plenty of intrigue, and the characters are so real and fascinating that they had me completely entranced. This author is now on my permanent "auto buy" list!" Roxanne Rustand

I love the tales that M.S. Clark has been putting to paper. This one provided a great view of the various cultures in and around New Orleans. I haven't gone to her website to learn which of the story is history based, but it doesn't matter. The culture doesn't need to be historical. I could not put this one down once I started. I'm a new fan.

Wow--Mindy Starns Clark has done it again. Under the Cajun Moon is another well-woven tale of mystery, adventure, and romance. I couldn't put it down!

A daughter of a renowned New Orleans restaurant owner Chloe Ledet is ordered home when her dad Chef Julian is hospitalized following an accident. Julian asks Chloe to keep his business running, which she agrees to do as this is the first time in her life her father asked her to do anything except take out the garbage. However, she barely looks at a recipe or sets a table, when the police suspect her of murder. Chloe knows she is being set up with Cajun pizzazz by an unknown source. Not one to sit idly by and wait for a break, Chloe investigates the homicide with a former boyfriend at her side. To solve the murder, she must swim in bayous and dig through her spicy dysfunctional relationships with her famous parents. This is an intelligent amateur sleuth mystery starring a spicy peppery heroine who is only in town to help her ailing dad, but soon finds herself drowning in Ragin' Cajuns. The story line is fast-paced but totally owned by the spunky lead protagonist who knows what she must do in the restaurant and to clear her name, but not with the man who offers to help her. If you have not read Mindy Starns Clark's Million Dollar and Smart Chick mysteries, you are missing out on one of the better whodunit authors as she returns to the Bayou State for a great mystery. Harriet Klausner

I have read Mindy's last two novels, 'Whispers on the Bayou' and 'Shadows of Lancaster County' and thought they were very good. This one, however, is absolutely wonderful! The action is nonstop from the very first sentence. Clark is so descriptive of her characters and locations, I actually felt as if I were there with them. Though this is a Christian novel, it is not so overtly Christian as to turn off a nonbeliever. I thought the way she worked the spiritual aspect into the book was very good. As a devout believer, I appreciated that and also the fact that there are good, clean books out there for us who don't wish every other word to be a swear word. I won't describe the novel because I don't want to ruin it for those who haven't read it yet, but take my word for it: This is a superb book and you won't want to miss it.