Sconed to Death
by Betty Hechtman

A brand-new series from the queen of culinary cozies. Full to the brim with crochet, crumpets, and crime!

The perfect ingredients for murder . . .

Annie Hart has transformed the yarn shop she inherited into a thriving business and tea shop. Now she needs to sell it so she can move back to LA. She just has to ensure that young Toby Swanson is kept on as the supplier of their famous scones.

Annie decides to secretly enter Toby in a new reality TV cooking show. But his application video takes a deadly twist when Annie and her business partner, Gray, discover a body on the beach while filming. Even worse, it looks like the young woman had been enjoying Toby’s cherry scones and the shop’s rose tea before her death.

With the help of her misfit group of local yarn artists, can Annie find a killer and save her reputation?

Readers who love super cozy culinary mysteries will eat up this new charming cozy mystery series.

Genre: Cosy Mystery

Reviews

“Hechtman joyfully turns many timeworn cozy tropes on their heads . . . If the Booker Prize had a category for cozies, this would be a contender”

Kirkus Reviews Starred Review of Death Among the Stitches

“Charm, warmth . . . [a] delightful cozy”

Booklist on Death Among the Stitches

“A well-written mystery with plenty of charismatic, guilty-looking characters”

Kirkus Reviews on Sentenced to Death

“This cozy is good fun”

Publishers Weekly on Sentenced to Death

“Plenty of interesting characters add zest to a tale of murder and romantic pitfalls”

Kirkus Reviews on Making It Write

“Mystery fans would do well to add Hechtman’s sleuthing wordsmith to their reading list”

Publishers Weekly on Making It Write

“Plenty of plot twists and an appealing heroine . . . What’s not to like?”

Kirkus Reviews on Murder Ink

“A sympathetic heroine . . . with an intriguing plot involving class and abuse. Readers will look forward to future instalments”

Publishers Weekly on Murder Ink

Betty Hechtman

Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces, along with short stories and a prize-wining screenplay. Betty had her first novel published in 2006. Since then she has had over books published across three cozy mystery series centered on another one of her loves – yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California.

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Editions

Sconed to Death by Betty Hechtman is available in the following formats

Hardback97814483186292nd June 2026144 X 222mm224$29.99
Hardback97814483186292nd June 2026144 X 222mm224£21.99
Ebook97814483186362nd June 2026N/A224£12.99
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