Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Description:
“Pippa Winterbourne runs Moorehaven, the Oregon Coast’s quirkiest
bed-and-breakfast and former home of world-famous mystery writer A. Raymond
Moore. Guests come there to write their own crime novels. When a real-life
murder takes a local’s life and washes a handsome boat pilot into her arms,
Pippa is yanked into a deadly plot of her own. A tangle of secrets crashes past
into present, and Pippa must uncover clues dating back to Seacrest’s
Prohibition days, including a secret Moore himself hid from the world.
Juggling her book-writing guests, small-town intrigues, secret club
agendas, and a possibly fatal attraction, Pippa must sort fact from fiction to
know who to trust before a desperate killer claims a final revenge nearly a
century in the making.”
Author:
“USA Today Bestselling Author Morgan Talbot is an outdoorsy girl with
a deep and abiding love for the natural sciences. Her degrees involve English
and jujitsu. She enjoys hiking, camping, and wandering in the woods looking for
the trail to the car, but there isn't enough chocolate on the planet to bribe
her into rock climbing.”
Appraisal:
I read and enjoyed Morgan Talbot’s “Caching Out” series, cozy
mysteries that were built around geocaching, with this obscure hobby (at least
it was to me) and those who participate playing a role in the mysteries. Smugglers & Scones is the first of a
new series that takes place at a B&B located in the former home of a
“world-famous mystery writer” on the Oregon Coast.
Talbot does a great job of describing the surroundings and setting the
scene of a small Oregon Coast town. The characters were all interesting and
added color to the story with the main character, Pippa, being one I hope to
see again. There were plenty of twists and turns as Pippa uncovered the
solution to the mystery which kept both her and I guessing to the very end.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No issues
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 80-85,000 word
1 comment:
Thank you so much for your generous review! You're welcome at Moorehaven any time.
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