Amanda Flower
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Series
Magical bookshop mystery volume 5
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Christmas is coming to the Western New York village of Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. Grandma Daisy and Violet's best friend, Sadie, go all out to make the nuptials the event of the season--whether Violet likes it or not. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the frigid Niagara River. Violet...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Description
First in a new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower!
Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady investor is a lot to handle... but a murderer on the loose is the final straw!
Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation—complete
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Series
Magical bookshop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant pastime. But police chief David Rainwater wheelie wants them to enter the Tour de Cascade as a couple, so she reluctantly consents.The Tour de Cascade is the brainchild of Violet's Grandma Daisy. The race is a fundraiser to build the Cascade Springs Underground Railroad Museum. But not everyone in this Niagara Region village supports the race. As if the bike race...
Author
Series
Amish candy shop mystery volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Bailey's former boyfriend arrives in Harvest, Ohio, to film an authentic Amish Christmas. When his executive producer is found strangled to death, Bailey finds herself caught between her sheriff deputy boyfriend out to prove Eric's guilt and her bad-boy ex out to sweet-talk her into helping him clear his name"--
For her first Yuletide in Harvest, Ohio, chocolatier Bailey King is recreating a cherished holiday treat: peppermint combined with molten...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Shiloh Bellamy saved her father's farm and is finally scraping by as a sustainable and organic farmer in Michigan. Since moving back, she has reconnected with old friends, including her best friend Kristy Brewer and Kristy's husband, Caine. Caine runs the farmer's market with an iron fist, and no one is surprised when he's killed except for Kristy who loved her husband despite his many faults. But when it's discovered that Caine was having an affair,...
Author
Series
Amish candy shop mystery volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Bailey King, star of TV's Bailey's Amish Sweets, is building her dream candy factory in Harvest, Ohio. But no sooner is the frame of the new building up than she finds the dead body of a surly contractor who has a long list of enemies -- including people in the Amish community. To add to the drama, Bailey is being filmed by a crew for her upcoming show. When Bailey's TV producer pitched a reality show about building the factory, Bailey was shocked...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
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An Amish sweets contest is interrupted when a bitter rivalry turns deadly in this cozy mystery by the Agatha Award-winning author of Criminally Cocoa.
Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her grandparents' Amish candy shop. She wants to honor her grandfather's memory, but she may be biting off more than she can chew when she enters...Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
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Matchmaking can be murder . . .
When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away—the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged...
When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away—the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020
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Description
A candy-striped caper . . .
Christmas is coming all too quickly for Harvest, Ohio's famous chocolatier, Bailey King. Thanks to her new cable TV show, her shop has more candy orders than she can handle this holiday season. Fortunately, her beloved Cousin Charlotte is happy to take the Candy Cane Exchange off Bailey's to-do list. After all, Charlotte has come to Harvest from her conservative home district to find her...
Christmas is coming all too quickly for Harvest, Ohio's famous chocolatier, Bailey King. Thanks to her new cable TV show, her shop has more candy orders than she can handle this holiday season. Fortunately, her beloved Cousin Charlotte is happy to take the Candy Cane Exchange off Bailey's to-do list. After all, Charlotte has come to Harvest from her conservative home district to find her...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020
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Caught in a sticky situation . . .
With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohio's Amish Country's most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King is determined to do everything in her power to make the event a sweet success. Except midsummer heat waves and outdoor ceremonies don't mix, and an exasperated Bailey soon finds herself struggling to fulfill bridesmaid duties and keep her stunning marshmallow-frosted...
With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohio's Amish Country's most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King is determined to do everything in her power to make the event a sweet success. Except midsummer heat waves and outdoor ceremonies don't mix, and an exasperated Bailey soon finds herself struggling to fulfill bridesmaid duties and keep her stunning marshmallow-frosted...
11) Crime and poetry
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother's bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn't need to read between the lines: Her grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. It's where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you . . .Violet has every intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is discovered clutching a volume...
12) Prose and cons
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
October in Cascade Springs, New York means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe in the shop's back garden to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees. Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead during the event....
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Series
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24-year-old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex-Amish teenager looking for a new home. While driving Chloe's car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish bishop. But what looks like an accident is soon labeled murder when police discover the...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily's brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst to speak at a local literary society and decides he and his young secretary, Luther Howard, will stay with the newlyweds. Emily has been a longtime admirer of Emerson's writing and is thrilled at the chance to meet her idol....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost...
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Series
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Description
For the first time, you can now get all three novels in Amanda Flower's Appleseed Creek Mystery Series together in one trilogy book.
The series begins with the Amish mystery novel A Plain Death. After moving to Amish country, new resident and computer whiz Chloe Humphrey must take on the role of detective when she is involved in an accident that is soon after labeled as murder by local police. With God's help, Chloe and
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
Author
Series
Magical bookshop mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could...
20) In Farm's Way
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"An adorable pug and characters you can invest in enliven a very cherry-centric mystery." - Kirkus Reviews
When the biggest catch at the annual Ice Fishing Derby is the body of brewmaster Wallace, Shiloh must reel in the killer before her farm goes belly-up.
Shiloh Bellamy still expects the last few Winter months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership...