In The Little Misplaced Library by Ellery Adams, Miracle Books proprietor Nora Pennington is drawn right into a chilling thriller when a e-book supply to reclusive Lucille Wynter’s eerie mansion results in the invention of Lucille’s demise. Her crumbling house is full of books—and hidden secrets and techniques. As Nora digs via the gathering, she uncovers a darkish previous and a fortune price killing for. With the assistance of the Secret, E-book, and Scone Society, Nora should unravel the reality earlier than the killer strikes once more. Bake these Cinnamon-Glazed Spiced Scones for a candy deal with to get pleasure from whereas unraveling the thrilling thriller.
Cinnamon-Glazed Spiced Scones
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons floor cinnamon, divided
- 1 teaspoon floor nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon nice sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon floor cloves
- ½ cup unsalted butter, very chilly
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 giant eggs
- ⅔ cup low-fat bitter cream
- ⅓ cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
- ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon complete milk, divided
- ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
- Preheat oven to 400°. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a big bowl, whisk collectively flour, brown sugar, baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, baking soda, and cloves. Utilizing a pastry blender or 2 forks, lower butter into flour combination till it resembles coarse crumbs. (The colder the butter, the higher.) Stir in raisins.
- In a medium bowl, stir collectively eggs, bitter cream, molasses, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Add to flour combination, stirring with a fork till a shaggy dough begins to type. Working gently, deliver combination along with palms till a dough kinds. (If combination appears dry and dough gained’t come collectively, add extra cream, 1 tablespoon at a time, till it does.)
- Prove dough onto a calmly floured floor, and knead gently till easy by patting dough and folding it in half 3 to 4 instances. Utilizing a rolling pin, roll out dough to a ¾-inch thickness. Form dough into an 8-inch circle. Utilizing a knife or pizza cutter, lower dough into 8 wedges. Place scones, evenly spaced, on ready baking sheet.
- Brush tops of scones with ¼ cup milk.
- Bake till scones are golden brown, roughly quarter-hour. Switch scones to a wire rack and let cool barely.
- In the meantime, in a medium bowl, stir collectively confectioner’s sugar, remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Whisk in remaining 1 tablespoon milk till glaze reaches desired consistency. Drizzle glaze over scones. Serve heat or at room temperature.
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Huge clues are available in small packages as Miracle Books proprietor Nora Pennington and the Secret, E-book, and Scone Society try to unravel a sequence of murders linked to a bibliophile’s lacking books within the newest cozy thriller from New York Occasions greatest–promoting writer Ellery Adams.
When an aged Miracle Springs resident Lucille Wynter arranges for Nora to ship an order of books to her creepy, crumbling Southern Gothic mansion on the outskirts of city, Nora doesn’t anticipate to be invited in. An agoraphobe, Lucille doesn’t go away Wynter Home. However when Lucille doesn’t come to the door to gather her books, Nora begins to fret.
Forcing her method into Lucille’s dilapidated dwelling, Nora is shocked to search out rooms bursting with books and a dull Lucille on the foot of her stairs. After studying a word left behind by Lucille, Nora wonders if her demise was an accident. Did she fall or was she pushed by somebody looking for a helpful merchandise hidden inside Wynter Home? Lucille’s kids are clearly assured the home accommodates one thing of worth, as a result of they rent Nora to sift via the piles of books.
Nora’s obsession with Lucille’s assortment turns into trigger for concern amongst her pals within the Secret, E-book, and Scone Society—she’s even neglecting her bookshop! However Nora does discover one thing helpful deep inside Wynter Home—a revelation about Lucille’s horrible previous…and a secret price a small fortune. However there’s somebody who’d do something to maintain the reality buried amid the moldering tomes, and it’s as much as Nora and her pals to trace down a assassin earlier than Wynter Home’s misplaced library claims one other sufferer.
Ellery Adams is the New York Occasions and USA As we speak greatest–promoting writer of two cookbooks and greater than 40 thriller novels, together with the E-book Retreat Mysteries; The Secret, E-book, & Scone Society sequence; the Books by the Bay Mysteries; and the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries. A local of New York, she grew up on a seaside close to the Lengthy Island Sound. She now lives together with her husband and two kids in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, so she considers herself “baked within the North and buttered within the South.” For extra info, studying guides, and bibliotherapy lists, please go to ElleryAdamsMysteries.com, or comply with Ellery Adams on Fb and Instagram.
