The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No. 42. Shortlisted for the 2024 McDermid Award ‘Stuffed with warmth and wicked, cross-cultural observations, Dead and Scone is a dollop of cosy crime goodness’ Vaseem Khan, author of The Malabar House series ‘Mrs Sidhu – Slough's answer to Miss Marple – is a wonderful creation’ S.J. Bennett, author of The Windsor Knot ‘A tale of dark shenanigans in a quintessential English village’ J.M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder ‘Bake Off meets Face/Off. Devilish fun’ Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series The perfect village. Mrs Sidhu, caterer and amateur sleuth, is delighted when she is offered a position as chef in a quiet corner of Berkshire. It’s a far cry from her cramped kitchen, where she was used to making an endless parade of aubergine bhajis! The perfect fete. In no time, Mrs Sidhu starts throwing herself into