Matchmaking Can Be Murder
Published on 31. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4967-2401-4 (ISBN)
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 . . .
Praise for Amanda Flower and her Amish cozies
"As it turns out, Amanda Flower may have just written the first Amish rom com."
-USA Today
"Flower has hit it out of the ballpark . . . and continues to amaze with her knowledge of the Amish way of life."
-RT Book Reviews
"At turns playful and engaging . . . a satisfyingly complex cozy."
-Library Journal
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 . . .
Praise for Amanda Flower and her Amish cozies
"As it turns out, Amanda Flower may have just written the first Amish rom com."
-USA Today
"Flower has hit it out of the ballpark . . . and continues to amaze with her knowledge of the Amish way of life."
-RT Book Reviews
"At turns playful and engaging . . . a satisfyingly complex cozy."
-Library Journal
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (mass)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 183 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4967-2401-4 (9781496724014)
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USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning mystery author Amanda Flower 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. She also writes mysteries as USA Today bestselling author Isabella Alan. Amanda is a former librarian and lives in Northeast Ohio. Readers can visit her online at www.amandaflower.com.