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“They say you have to make sacrifices to follow your dreams. I just didn’t expect the sacrifices to involve an American tourist and a killer scone.” ~ Gemma ditches her high-flying job and returns to Oxford to pursue her dream of opening a traditional English tearoom. It means giving up her savings, moving back with her parents and coping with her bossy, matchmaking mother, but she’s sure it will all be worth it. In fact, business is already booming… that is, until she opens up shop and finds an American tourist murdered by one of her signature scones!
Now Gemma finds herself apron-deep in a mystery with unexpected links to Oxford University. And her own student days there come back to haunt her when the handsome CID detective leading the case turns out to be her old college flame. With the nosy “Old Biddies” from the local village meddling at every turn and her baker’s cheeky cat terrorising her kitchen, Gemma is beginning to find herself in a real jam…
Murder is bad for business, especially when customers think your scones are more deadly than delicious. With the body count rising and her tearoom going bust, can Gemma find the killer before her future turns to custard?

A Scone to Die For is the delectable first book in the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries. If you like deliciously endearing characters, intriguing whodunits, and hilarious British humour—not to mention cats with big personalities!—then you’ll love the first book in H.Y. Hanna’s bestselling culinary cozy mystery series. (*Traditional English scone recipe included)

This book follows British English spelling and usage.
Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Genre: British cozy mystery / culinary cozy mysteries / cat cozy mystery series / women amateur sleuth / British detective mystery / humorous mystery /

The OXFORD TEAROOM MYSTERIES:

A Scone To Die For
Tea with Milk and Murder
Two Down, Bun To Go
Till Death Do Us Tart
Muffins and Mourning Tea
Four Puddings and a Funeral
Another One Bites the Crust
Apple Strudel Alibi
The Dough Must Go On
The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year
Wrongfully Infused
A High Whisk Situation

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ H.Y. Hanna (18 January 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 323 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099429249X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0994292490
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 2.06 x 19.84 cm

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- 6,780 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)

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* Join my newsletter for new releases, exclusive giveaways and other book news - plus my FREE Sampler Library, which includes the prequel to the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries and an exclusive short story from the Bewitched by Chocolate Mysteries! Go to: https://hyhanna.com/newsletter

USA Today bestselling author H.Y. Hanna writes fun cozy mysteries filled with quirky characters, lots of laughs, clever twists—and cats with big personalities! She is known for bringing wonderful settings to life, whether it's the historic city of Oxford, the beautiful English Cotswolds or the sunny beaches of coastal Florida. After graduating from Oxford University, Hsin-Yi tried her hand at a variety of jobs, including advertising, modelling, teaching English and dog training... before returning to her first love: writing. She worked as a freelance writer for several years and has won awards for her poetry, short stories and journalism. Hsin-Yi was born in Taiwan and has been a globe-trotter all her life—living in a variety of cultures, from Dubai to Auckland, London to New Jersey—but is now happily settled in Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and a rescue kitty named Muesli. She loves gardening, has a morbid fear of cockroaches and adds chili to everything she eats.

You can learn more about her and her books at: www.hyhanna.com And don’t forget to join her newsletter to get updates on new releases, exclusive giveaways and other book news—as well as her FREE Sampler Library! Go to: https://www.hyhanna.com/newsletter

The ENGLISH COTTAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES

Deadhead and Buried (Book 1)

Silent Bud Deadly (Book 2)

Doom and Bloom (Book 3)

Trowel and Error (Book 4)

Fronds and Enemies (Book 5)

Too Mulch to Handle (Book 6)

OXFORD TEAROOM MYSTERIES:

All-Butter ShortDead (Prequel)

A Scone To Die For (Book 1)

Tea with Milk and Murder (Book 2)

Two Down, Bun To Go (Book 3)

Till Death Do Us Tart (Book 4)

Muffins and Mourning Tea (Book 5)

Four Puddings and a Funeral (Book 6)

Another One Bites the Crust (Book 7)

Apple Strudel Alibi (Book 8)

The Dough Must Go On (Book 9)

The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year (Book 10)

BEWITCHED BY CHOCOLATE Mysteries

Dark, Witch & Creamy (Book 1)

Witch Chocolate Fudge (Book 2)

Witch Summer Night's Cream (Book 3)

Blood, Sweets and Tears (Book 4) ~ previously published as "Witch Chocolate Bites"

Bonbons and Broomsticks (Book 5)

Double, Double, Toil and Truffle (Book 6)

Salted Caramel Sorcery (Book 7)

The BAREFOOT SLEUTH MYSTERIES

Flip-Flops and Murder (Book 1)

Seashells and Murder (Book 2)

Cocktails and Murder (Book 3)

Bikinis and Murder (Book 4)

BIG HONEY DOG MYSTERIES ~ middle grade mystery adventure for animal lovers

Curse of the Scarab (Book 1)

A Secret in Time (Book 2)

HOLIDAY Mysteries Collection (Halloween, Christmas & Easter mini-mysteries)

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Possum

Tearoom troubles

Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2016

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Gemma has returned from a busy career in Australia to an Oxford village where, to her mother's distress, she has opened a tea shop. She is building up her business until an obnoxious American has the very bad manners to get himself murdered in her premises. Looking at losing business and having an 'in' at some of the Oxford colleges she decides to see what she can do to help the investigation along. Her chef's loved cat disappears and that becomes part of the investigation as well. The investigator is a former boy friend and Gemma's mother is trying to set her up with a suitable man. I had to keep reading late into the night and immediately bought the next book in the series, to see how Gemma manages when her mother starts to work at the tea room. A fun read!

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DonnaM

A gentle read

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2016

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While a little slow in parts this is a good read. I did feel some time was wasted setting up all the characters for future stories. I didn't find the character of Devlin (the police detective) particularly convincing.

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Grannysebooks

Scone before you know it

Reviewed in Australia on 7 November 2016

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A light romantic muster mystery set in the beautiful dis trick around Oxford, and it's University. A gentle read. Perfect with a cup of tea.

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Margaret R Blake

Who does love a great scone?

Reviewed in Australia on 3 August 2018

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Good, fun read. Love the light-hearted style of these little mysteries ... not too heavy but with enough interest to keep me reading.

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Four stars

Reviewed in Australia on 27 April 2018

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I enjoyed this story, although the main character did seem to find most of the clues for the police, who appeared fairly incompetent!

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MRS. MARJORIE BLYTON

Cosies are not my style

Reviewed in Australia on 26 December 2020

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A few threads of this story could have made this a better book. Cosies are not my styl. Only ok.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 June 2016

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Good quick read to fill in a wet afternoon. Definitely a cosy!!

Reviewed in Australia on 29 October 2017

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An enjoyable light read.

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Mr. D. R. Goodman

More Scones - I mean Oxford Tearoom Mysteries - please

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2016

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Having now read the whole Oxford Tearoom series to date, I am editing this review to say that they are the best of the cosy murder genre by a distance. Every book in the series is superb, characters are fantastic, the writing is excellent and the stories just right for cosy murders. Buy every one in the series, because they are all great reads.
Every bit as good as the first book in the series'Tea with Milk and Murder'. Hopefully there will be more than two, because the writer has created a good amateur detective, an excellent setting (a tea-room in Oxford from which she sets out to solve murders) and plenty of suspects which will have you changing your suspicions from one character to another as you read on. Amazon have this as an offer with the first book, and I recommend that you read Tea with Milk and Murder first, as it sets the scene for this book.

EllieWC

Don't eat that scone!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2016

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This is the story of a tea -shop - and a woman who turns her back on the fast life to cater for the tourists in a small Oxfordshire Tea Shop.

Now for me, this story had overtones of Midsummer Murders.

scone

The village described sounded just like one that the TV show would have used including the requisite nosy old biddies thinking they were a reincarnation on Miss Marples. Even down to the location as Midsummer Murders is set in the Chilterns and Oxfordshire.

But we added in Oxford university politics and rivalries and people hiding their true nature.

Overall not an exciting read but fun and very familiar to me but I didn't guess the identity of the killer so for that I must give it 4 stars.

Nikkib

Nice book set on Oxford

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2017

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A nice little cosy mystery book, set in a tea room in Oxford.

Gemma's new business seems to be going well, the tea room is busy and the cakes Fletcher bakes go down a treat with the customers.

After a particularly trying day with an awkward customer, Gemma is pleased to close up ready for the next day. Little dies she know it will be the last good day for a while! As she opens up the next morning she finds one of the customers from the day before, dead in a chair at one of the outside tables.

Add in the fact her previous boyfriend is now a local police detective and has been assigned to the case; the old biddies who are i tent on 'helping' solve the case, and the mischevious little tabbly cat Muesli, and you have the ingredients for a cosy mystery.

I'm looking forward to the next books in the series.

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Janet T.

A-mewsing murder mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2022

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Very enjoyable as a stand-alone or linked to the later books. In fact, I read Book 2 first, but that made me more curious about how the whole world of Tearoom mysteries got started. I’m looking forward to the rest of them now, to follow the characters’ development, relationships, and frequent brushes with mortality.

Murphyz

Very enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2016

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A well written book, with believable characters and a likeable main character. Gemma Rose returns home from Australia, opens a tea room and is back living with her parents. When a tourist is murdered she soon finds herself caught up in the investigation. Humour intermingled throughout the book, such as the recurring technology queries from Gemma's mum. Hope the relationship between Gemma and Detective O'Connor continues. I didn't guess who the murderer was, and I would highly recommend this book, exceptionally well written and a delight to read.

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