Glory Daze
Glory Broussard Mystery • Book 2
by Danielle Arceneaux
Why You'll Love This
Glory Broussard runs church bingo, takes bets on the side, and somehow keeps finding corpses — and she's exactly the sleuth you didn't know you needed.
- Great if you want: a sharp, community-rooted mystery with a fiercely original protagonist
- The experience: warm but brisk — Mardi Gras atmosphere with genuine emotional stakes
- The writing: Arceneaux writes Glory with dry wit and lived-in Southern specificity
- Skip if: you haven't read Glory Be — the emotional payoff runs deeper with context
About This Book
Glory Broussard never asked to be anybody's detective. She just wanted to run her Sunday bookie operation from a coffee shop booth and oversee her church's Mardi Gras gala in peace. But when the woman who destroyed her marriage walks through the door asking for help, and Glory's ex-husband turns up dead, she's pulled back into exactly the kind of mess she'd been trying to avoid. Glory Daze is a mystery built on competing loyalties — to community, to faith, to a past that won't stay buried — and the central question isn't just who killed a man, but how much Glory owes someone she has every reason to despise.
Danielle Arceneaux writes Louisiana like someone who knows its rhythms from the inside: the particular social architecture of Black Catholic life in the South, the coded relationships of a tight-knit parish, the way small communities keep enormous secrets. Glory herself is the engine that makes this series worth following — sharp, stubborn, and genuinely funny in ways that feel earned rather than performed. The plotting moves cleanly, but it's the texture of the world and the specificity of Glory's voice that linger long after the last page.
