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A Scone of Contention

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A Scone of Contention

By: Lucy Burdette
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
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Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow and her groom, Police Detective Nathan Bransford, chose Scotland for their long-delayed honeymoon, hoping to sightsee and enjoy some prize-winning scones. But their romantic duo swells to a crowd when they're joined by Nathan's family as well as octogenarian Miss Gloria.

Nathan's sister Vera takes the women on a whirlwind tour of some of Scotland's iconic mystic places as research for a looming book project. But the trip takes a deadly tartan turn when a dinner party guest falls ill and claims she was poisoned. And then the group watches in horror as a mysterious tourist tumbles to his death from the famous Falkirk Wheel, high above the Forth & Clyde canal.

Vera and her friends deny knowing the dead man, but after observing their reactions to the fall, Hayley is not convinced. With one person dead, a second possibly poisoned, and the tension among Vera's friends as thick as farmhouse cheese, Hayley fears her long-awaited honeymoon might end with another murder.

Far away from home and surrounded by unfamiliar faces, eccentric characters, and a forbiddingly gorgeous setting, Hayley must call on all her savvy to keep a killer from striking again and then escaping Scot free.

©2021 Lucy Burdette (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC Amateur Sleuths Cosy Culinary Adventures Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Scotland Scary Food Fiction

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I love these books. I enjoy all the characters especially Miss Gloria. Very well read.

Fabulous

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Great story in a different location (very local to me in fact). The Scottish accents were questionable but they did add to the story arc.

The worst crime was at the hands of the author to say that places being visited in Scotland where incidents had occurred and were reported in a supposed "local Newspaper" to be in England. They are definitely not in England. Some of the places names were pronounced differently throughout the recording. It's Edinburgh (Edin-buh-ruh) not Edinboro.

Great story but as a Scot some things were incorrect.

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