Cozy Mystery Review: Smugglers and Scones, by Morgan C. Talbot
Title: Smugglers and Scones (Moorehaven Mysteries Book 1) Author: Morgan C. Talbot Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, 2016 Source: I was given an electronic review copy by the author in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher's Blurb: 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 mak...