Sconed to Death book tour is through Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours and includes a character interview. Meet the character, share, comment, subscribe.
Book Details
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Indiana
Publisher : Severn House
Publication date : June 2, 2026
Print length : 224 pages
Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1448318629
ISBN-13 : 978-1448318629
Digital
ISBN-13: 9781448318636
Audiobook
ASIN B0GH2HY42Y
MP3CD
ISBN-13 : 979-8228941519
ASIN : B0GS74NJGP
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.
About 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-winning screenplay. She has published over thirty books across four cozy mystery series, all of which have yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California
Author Links
Website: https://www.Bettyhechtman.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettyhechtmanauthor
Blog: https://www.killerhobbies.blogspot.com
Purchase Links Amazon Barnes and Noble
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
June 1 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
June 1 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW
June 2 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 2 – Salty Inspirations – CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 2 – Sarcastically Yours, Jen – SPOTLIGHT
June 3 – @bibliophile_foodie – REVIEW
June 3 – Twirling Book Princess – SPOTLIGHT
June 3 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
June 4 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
June 4 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
June 5 – Books, Ramblings and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
June 5 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 6 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
June 6 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 7 – Cozy Up With Kathy – SPOTLIGHT
June 7 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
June 8 – The Mystery of Writing – CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 8 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
Character Interview
I feel like I should introduce myself first. My name is Annie Sara Hart and I am currently residing in Franklin Indiana. It’s only temporary and then I’ll go back home to my life in L.A. I came to check out the property my uncle left me and then sell it. I was totally surprised to see it was an old red school house with a defunct yarn shop. I thought I would just spruce it up but then some of locals who were yarn people like me starting hanging out and convinced me to add a tea room. I certainly didn’t expect to get involved with solving murders, but life is full of surprises.
Describe yourself
If you mean what do I look like– one thing is for sure. I don’t have pillowy lips courtesy of injections that are so popular in L.A.. My hair is long and a nice shade of brown. I’d like to say that my brownish eyes have a bright sparkle. I’m really more about doing things than fussing with clothes. I wear a lot of black jeans and black tops decorated with whatever broches strike my
fancy. I suppose you’d call it an arty look, but then I did go to art school and I call myself a crochet artist. That means that I make sculptures out of yarn. Okay, that sounds a little pretentious. I’ll change that to I like make toys. Right now, I’m working on an aquarium with crocheted fish and seaweed.
What makes me laugh?
Hopefully myself. I try not to take myself seriously.
Do you have a special talent or gift?
I just did a whole number of being a crochet artist, so I think that covers it.
Tell us about your family.
There’s my blood family. My mother died when I was a kid. She’s the one who got me started on crochet and I still have the doll she made for me, though it can’t really sit up straight anymore. Too much being dragged around.
My father is a talent agent. It shocks some people that I call him Bryan. His job is to get his clients work and negotiate deals, but they expect more like help with their personal lives.
That’s where my other sort of family comes in. I’ve been sort of a hired big sister to Bryans primo client Camille Constantine’s daughter. Along with waiting on customers at the high-end children’s boutique in Malibu owned by the Camille, my job I was to keep track of her daughter. Gray was brought up like a pampered princess who lives in the shadow of her famous parents. The sister thing kind of changed when she ended up in Indiana with me. The school house I inherited came with a small cottage that we are now sharing. I’ve gotten to know her more and she’s gotten to know me more and now we both agree that we are like real sisters. I have to give her credit. She has really stepped up and is right there with me making tea sandwiches for the tea room and
waiting on customers.
What do you do for fun?
Right now, I would have to say it was sitting outside watching fireflies with Matt Astin.
There are no fireflies in L.A., so just seeing the little blinking creatures is amazing to me.
And then there’s Matt. I’m only supposed to be in Franklin until I sell the school house shop and it seems like a bad idea to get involved with anyone. But I really like him.
Hie’s a widower with two daughters. He gave up working as a lawyer in a family business to be sort of an eccentric farmer. His daughters got attached to the farm animals and the plans for the animals to become dinner changed. They are now pets
who will have long happy lives in Matt’s care.
He also is the publisher and editor of the local newspaper which puts him in the know of what’s going on in town. He has definitely helped when I got involved with solving a murder.
One of his daughters likes me and the other seems to view me as a threat to taking her mother’s place. I know I should just stay back and not get involved, but he is just so much fun to be around.
Tell me about your author.
I’d like to think I’m her favorite character, but I’m afraid it’s Molly Pink since she was the first one.
Molly is into crochet too, but honestly, I’m much better at it than she is.
Do you like the way she writes about you?
I like the way she makes me self-reliant., but still able to accept help. I am hoping that she gives me more time with Matt and comes up with ways to make peace with his daughter who doesn’t like me.
She needs to understand that I know what it’s like to lose your mother and I would never try to replace her.
She has left me with so much on my plate. All these relationships, keeping Toby as the scone maker and a murder. I hope she gives me a happy ending.
