Description
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 to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he’s not right for such a gentle young woman—except Edith herself.
Pleased when she convinces the bride-to-be to leave her betrothed before the wedding, Millie is later panicked to find Zeke in Edith’s greenhouse—as dead as a tulip in the middle of winter. To keep her niece out of prison—and to protect her own reputation—Millie will have to piece together a patchwork of clues to find a killer, before she becomes the next name on his list . . .
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My Review:
I have enjoyed reading Amanda Flower’s Amish mysteries and this new series is off to a great start. Millie Fisher is the Amish version of “Miss Marple” and also the community’s matchmaker. She’s kind and compassionate, but she’s also very determined. She, along with her English sidekick, Lois, are actively trying to solve the murder of Zeke Miller. They are on the right trail of solving the murder, but they are also walking right into danger. It’s going to take all the courage they have to prevent further crime in their quiet Amish community.
This book was fun to read. Millie and Lois are great characters, and the mystery was interesting. The pacing of this author’s stories is always on target, and the clues come along at just the right pace to keep the reader guessing. Although this book is not classified as “Christian fiction”, it’s clean and sweet and readers of Christian fiction would be comfortable reading this book.
There are some characters who appear in this book from Amanda Flower’s other Amish mystery series, “Amish Candy Shop Mysteries”. I enjoyed seeing them in this book, and look forward to the crossover between these two series.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
About the Author:
About Amanda Flower
Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words. Her debut mystery, Maid of Murder, was an Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel and her children’s mysteries, Andi Unexpected and Andi Under Pressure, were an Agatha Award Nominees for Best Children’s/YA Novel. Andi Unstoppable won the Agatha Award for Best Children’s/YA Novel 2015. Amanda is a former librarian living in northeast Ohio. Visit her at www.amandaflower.com