Authors: Ron Benrey,Janet Benrey
Tags: #Mystery, #tea, #Tunbridge Wells, #cozy mystery, #Suspense, #English mystery
Dead as a Scone (44 page)
4. Dame Elspeth suspects that the museum antiques were acquired by her family ‘under less-than-honorable circumstances’. What would you do if you found out that a family member acquired goods by less-than-honorable means? Would you urge them to return it? Would you tell them to get rid of it quickly, or would you enjoy the goods anyway as there probably isn’t anything you can do about the situation?
5. Suppose your family suffered huge financial losses at someone else’s hands and stood no chance of being made whole again. What would you do? Would you forgive the person responsible for your pain and move on? Or would you forever seek a way to punish the person who caused so much unnecessary anguish?
6. Commodore Desmond Hawker was known as a cold-blooded businessman. His later-in-life conversion to Christianity left many skeptics who refused to believe he’d had a change in heart. But he sought to make amends for the evil he’d done and became a genuine man of faith. Have you met someone who has had a similar change of heart? Do you have trouble reconciling the “earlier” and “later” behaviors? If you do accept that such transformation is possible, to what do you attribute the change of heart?
7. Commodore Hawker was able to take advantage of his business partner with knowledge that he could have shared. Sometimes, in our daily lives, we come across information that may advantage us and disadvantage those close to us. How do you handle such information? Do you feel obliged to share? Or do you keep your find a secret an “let the chips fall where they may”?
About the Authors
Ron and Janet Benrey
have been a writing team for nearly two decades. They’ve co-written nine romantic suspense novels, beginning with “Little White Lies.” Despite their authorial togetherness, Ron and Janet have dissimilar backgrounds:
Janet has been a literary agent, the editorial director of a small press, an executive recruiter, and a book publicist. Janet earned her degree in Communication (Magna cum Laude) from the University of Pittsburgh.
Ron has been a writer forever—initially on magazines (his first real job was Electronics Editor at Popular Science Magazine), then in corporations (he wrote speeches for senior executives), and then as a novelist. Over the years, Ron has authored ten non-fiction books. His latest is “Know Your Rights: A Survival Guide for Non-Lawyers.” Ron holds degrees in electrical engineering, management, and law.
Ron and Janet live in North Carolina. When they aren’t writing, you’ll probably find them aboard their sailboat, in the Neuse River.
Visit their website:
www.benrey.com
… and their blog:
www.fictionafter50.com
Other Books by the Authors
The Royal Tunbridge Wells Mysteries:
The Final Crumpet
The Pippa Hunnechurch Mysteries:
Little White Lies
The Second Mile
Humble Pie
The Glory Mysteries:
Glory Be!
Gone to Glory
Grits and Glory
Season of Glory
Novella compilation
Building Love
Non-fiction books by Ron Benrey
Know Your Rights: A Survival Guide for Non-Lawyers
Understanding Christianity: Cutting Through the Confusion
The Idiot’s Guide to Writing Christian Fiction
Copyright
Dead as a Scone
Copyright © 2004, 2011 by Ron and Janet Benrey
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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First eBook Edition: March 2011
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 197, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Amazon Kindle eBook eISBN: 978-1-936924-40-0
Cover design by Ken Raney
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