🥐🥐🥞Audiobook Review: Smugglers and Scones 🥓🍳☕ Written By Morgan C. Talbot; Narrated by Amina Cee 🕵️♀️🤔🎙🎧
Smugglers & Scones by Morgan C. TalbotMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
*I listened to the audiobook for this read, narrated by Amina Cee*
What I liked about the book?
I loved the atmosphere way more than I initially thought I would. I’m normally more of a gritty mystery reader, so I wasn’t quite sure how I would react to this one. I pleasantly surprised.
Morgan C. Talbot made Moorehaven seem like a place I’d want to visit. The bed-and-breakfast on the coast of Oregon was previously the home of mystery writer A. Raymond Moore and currently caters to experienced and aspiring crime novelists. Just learning more about Moorehaven and the town surrounding it made me feel cozy and intrigued and the Poirot references definitely clinched it for me early.
Secondly, the characters, major and minor, sucked me in. First off, Moorehaven is run by Pippa Winterbourne who, in the middle of dealing with these writers and their crazy research in town and doing her job, gets caught up in a real murder with a connected mystery that dates back to the Prohibition era.
As you can imagine, a business full of crime writers on a daily basis would beyond interesting and the author illustrates that well. At one point, Pippa references how, because of the writers she works with, she knows multiples ways to kill someone.
The way each character is written, no matter how minor they might be, you can tell that attention was paid to each detail regarding each person. You can easily distinguish who is whom.
Lastly and certainly not least, Amina Cee’s narration was absolutely fantastic. Her voice and the story were a perfect match.
What I didn’t like about the book?
The only thing I didn’t like was that Pippa was a little too nice sometimes in situations where she needed to maybe yell a little bit more, though based on where she works, she obviously has the patience of a saint and has built up a great deal of tolerance for crazy.
The story itself felt like a cross between Murder She Wrote and Murder on the Orient Express, both of which I enjoy very much and if you do too, then pick this up.
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