The Secret Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams 290 pp.
In a small North Carolina spa town called Miracle Springs four women become unlikely amateur detectives. Nora owns the town bookstore and provides her own form of biblio-therapy to the tourists visiting the spa. Hester runs the bakery and makes custom made "comfort" scones for people. Estelle runs the local beauty shop. June works at the spa in the hot springs pool. All of the women have some secret from their past that they eventually reveal during the course of the story. The death of a visiting businessman is soon followed by the death of one of his business associates. The amateur sleuths uncover shady goings on in the town but not before one of them is accused of murder. The main characters are nice, if a bit bland, and the plot is fine. However, too much of it is far fetched and unbelievable.
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