Cover: After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspeys and reels, jigs and Highland flings, she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decided to help her aunt run her Scottish Emporium. With one solved murder case under her dance belt, Liss has no idea she’s about to spiral into another…

Liss still misses the life of a professional dance with Strathspey, the Scottish dance company she belonged to .. so she arranges a reception for the troupe when they’re on tour, complete with a Scottish theme that included a new spin on the classic Scottish scone.

Liss soon realizes that life in the group isn’t all happy jigs and fancy stepping. Victor Owens, the company manager, her been making life miserable for everyone. But she has no idea how miserable until Victor bites into one of Liss’s prized cocktails scones, collapses and dies. When the police set their sights on Liss and her best friends, it’s up to Liss to find out whodunit before this culinary Killer makes an encore…

SCONE COLD DEAD (Liss MacCrimmon Mystery 2) by KAITLYN DUNNETT (2008) ISBN: 9780758216465 (USA PB) Publisher: Kensington

“A nice little debut with enough local colour and romance to make a congenial addition to the cozy ranks.” -Kirkus Reviews

Fun story with loads of Scottish ‘trimmings’ there’s the odd Brig O’Doon (over-the-top fantasy) moments but all in good fun. And in the final analysis, you’ve just got to love a town called Moosetookalook! YUP!
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Scones might fall into the patisserie category in North America but they sure don’t in Scotland they’re in the SCONES CATEGORY over here! Really think more bread like than patisserie like, so in fact scones with savoury fillings do work a treat. For example: a warm cheese scone is pure bliss, the freshest can easily be eaten on their own but for the best eating pleasure a wee dab of butter, placed in the centre of a scone split with a knife, does the trick! And savoury scones are a joy! My personal favourites come from one of my local cafés here in Edinburgh, the RED KITE CAFÉ and are huge soft and simply divine…

This was originally going to be part of a Festive Season release parcel to Flutterbies9 in 2016. As I thought the Scottish theme would amuse and having the first three in series meant the possibility of offering a three novel, BookRay package at some point! Those plans went awry and instead I’ve popped this into Flutterbies9’s Cosy Bookbox parcel today on Fri 30 Mar 2018, as this bookbox is not its way back to Flutterbies9 – enjoy!

Received in the Cosy Mystery Bookbox on its return home.

Yeah, an author I have read the first and third books from and so this is a welcome addition to the series. Will soon be read I think as likely to fall off tottering tbr!!

Thanks for this rainbow3. Now read as were the other two at the beginning of the series which I have read so far! (Odd order tho as read book 3, 1 and then 2). Yes, it would have made just a little bit more sense to have read these in order but no matter, and I am glad that I caught up with this missing part in the series so far. It has explained just that bit more that I had not realised that I missed in book 3.

My only major gripe with this book is with 'flaky' scones. Flaky!??! Though I kept trying to substitute 'crumbly' in my mind, it still caught me out and rankled every time. Sorry. Perhaps if there had been a recipe I may have understood that they were not talking scones as we know them in Scotland, but pastries of some sort, however no recipes in this book.

However, the basic storyline of the murder is pretty see through (I knew the murderer before the halfway stage and never doubted it after that) - although the involvement of Liss in the lives of all the major players in this plot clouds her vision in a major fashion. Just a rather fun, easy to read 'cosy' murder and I would certainly carry on reading this series if I ever saw any of them again.

No serious plans for this as yet but I may well put this into another round of the 'cosy' bookbox.

Added to the Cosy Crime Bookbox.

chosen from the cosy crime bookbox