Bad to the Scone by London Lovett [Review]

Bad to the Scone (Scottie Ramone Mystery #6) by London Lovett
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: May 5, 2025

Scottie Ramone Mystery
0.5. Banana Chiffon and Bad Deeds
1. Heads Will Cinnamon Roll
2. Better Off Shortbread
3. Dead Gingerbread Man Walking
4. Caught Bread Handed
5. A Pie for a Pie
6. Bad to the Scone - Paperback | Kindle

London Lovett
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Scottie Ramone is living the life she always dreamed about. She’s back in her wonderful hometown of Ripple Creek. Her bakery business is thriving, and she has a wonderful baker’s assistant, Jack Lucas. To top it all off, she has a marvelous boyfriend, gothic thriller novelist, Cade Rafferty. Admittedly, there is still a touch of awkward tension between Scottie and her longtime crush, Ranger Dalton Braddock, but they’ve worked things out … mostly. The winter snow has melted, spring is in the air and soon a rush of summer tourists will fill the town and gobble up her bakery goodies.

When one of the locals, Roberta Schubert, decides to reopen her mother’s old teahouse and sell what she calls “traditional scones” she boasts that she might just take a bite out of Scottie’s business. Scottie isn’t too worried until Roberta sells her scones at a yard sale and people love them. When Roberta is murdered, Scottie starts a list of possible killers and there are plenty. In the meantime, Ranger Braddock has started his own list, and one of the names on the list is a real stunner …

Thoughts on Bad to the Scone: We're back in Ripple Creek and Scottie has her hands full with this case. Mostly because she's actually considered a suspect by long time friend (and former crush) Ranger Braddock. Which does not thrill Scottie in the least. But Roberta's boasts that she was going to drive Scottie out of business once she opened her tea house means Scottie has motive and Dalton needs to follow the rules and bring her down for questioning.

As it turns out, the victim had ruffled more than a few feathers over the years and Scottie's hardly the only one with motive. There's the tenant she's just served eviction papers to, the long-time friend she'd stolen from years before, and the husband she runs roughshod over. And that's just the start of the list. In other words, Scottie has her work cut out for her and, as a suspect, she can't count of Dalton helping her out in the investigation.

On the romance front, Scottie and Cade are cuddling up and Scottie's grandmother is working on a little matchmaking for Dalton (since Scottie's off the table). Things are a little rocky on the friendship front between Dalton and Scottie (thanks in part to Dalton taking her in for questioning), but they're trying to get back to a place where they really ARE friends again.

Verdict: I like spending time in Ripple Creek. *thumbs up*