Dead as a Scone (44 page)

Authors: Ron Benrey,Janet Benrey

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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

Dead as a Scone

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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.

Amazon Kindle eBook eISBN: 978-1-936924-40-0

Cover design by Ken Raney

Table of Contents

A Note From the Authors

The Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum