About Game of Scones (Sugar & Spice Mysteries Book 1)
At Sugar & Spice Community Cookbooks, business is flatter than a fritter and so Sugar and Spice are thrilled when the local Founders Club hires them to assemble a collection of old-time recipes for the town’s upcoming bicentennial celebration. It’s Recipe Wars in small town St. Ignatius and the town’s rival bed & breakfast owners, one of them Spice’s aunt, end up in a food fight over who has the best scones. The situation heats up and when things turn deadly, Sugar and Spice have to cook-up a scheme to find the killer before the town council votes to scrap their cookbook deal.
“When you add to the likeable characters a fine small town setting, an interesting cozy mystery plot, and loads of yummy food, you have a recipe for success!”— RoloPoloBookBlog
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Mary Lee Ashford is a lifelong bibliophile, an avid reader, and supporter of public libraries. In addition to writing the Sugar and Spice series for Kensington Books, she also writes as half of the writing team of Sparkle Abbey, author of the national bestselling Pampered Pets mystery series from Bell Bridge Books.
Prior to publishing Mary Lee won first place in the Daphne du Maurier contest, sponsored by the Kiss of Death chapter of RWA, and was a finalist in Murder in the Grove’s mystery contest, as well as Killer Nashville’s Claymore Dagger contest.
She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime – Iowa and a board member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest chapter, as well as a member of Novelists, Inc., Romance Writers of America, Kiss of Death the RWA Mystery Suspense chapter, Sisters in Crime, and the SinC internet group Guppies.
She loves encouraging writers and is a frequent lecturer and workshop presenter for writers’ groups. Mary Lee has a passionate interest in creativity and teaches a university level course in Creative Management to MPA candidates, as well as presenting workshops and blogging about creativity.
She currently resides in the midwest with her husband, Tim, and Sparkle, the rescue cat namesake of the Sparkle Abbey pseudonym. Her delights are reading and enjoying her two sons and daughter-in-laws, and six grandchildren.
For more information, visit her website MaryLeeAshford dot com.