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Amanda Flower - Free Library Land Online https://library.land/ ru Amanda Flower - Free Library Land Online DataLife Engine Marshmallow Malice https://library.land/amanda-flower/548087-marshmallow_malice.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/548087-marshmallow_malice.html

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 wedding cake from becoming a gooey disaster. Then much to everyone's shock, the entire ceremony crumbles when a guest drops dead, and the cause isn't sunstroke . . .

Turns out, the uninvited victim came equipped with lots of dirt on the devout reverend's hidden past. As Reverend Brook tops the murder suspect list on what should have been the happiest day of his life, Bailey and her sheriff's deputy boyfriend vow to clear his name. Can the duo boil down a series of baffling clues before Juliet...]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:05:10 +0300 Verse and Vengeance https://library.land/amanda-flower/522348-verse_and_vengeance.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/522348-verse_and_vengeance.html

USA Today bestselling author and Agatha Award winner Amanda Flower turns the charm up to ten in her fourth Magical Bookshop mystery.
With the help of Walt Whitman's works, magical bookshop owner Violet Waverly puts her pedal to the metal to sleuth a bicycle-race murder that tests her mettle.

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 weren't tiring enough, pesky private investigator Joel Redding is snooping around Charming Books. It takes all of Violet's and Grandma Daisy's ingenuity to keep Redding from discovering the shop's...]]> Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:46:13 +0200 Mums and Mayhem https://library.land/amanda-flower/558307-mums_and_mayhem.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/558307-mums_and_mayhem.html

A famous fiddler has been kilt. A magic garden's left to wilt. Does Fiona Knox's father hold the guilt? Will florist Fiona's blood be spilt?
World-famous fiddle player Barley McFee arrives in blustery Bellewick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for a grand homecoming concert organized by jeweler Bernice Brennan. Fiona Knox, owner of the Climbing Rose Flower Shop, is starting to regret volunteering to help with the concert. Bernice is an exacting taskmaster, and Fiona has enough tension dealing with her parents, who have traveled from Tennessee to visit Fi and her younger sister, Isla, and to reveal a secret about Fi's birth. But when Barley is found dead in his trailer during the concert's intermission, and his death is shockingly tied to Fiona's father, Fiona discovers there are more secrets surrounding her family than she realized.
Much to the chagrin of handsome Neil Craig, Chief Inspector of the County Aberdeen Police, Fiona delves into the case to clear her father's...]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:00:38 +0300 Botched Butterscotch https://library.land/amanda-flower/546711-botched_butterscotch.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/546711-botched_butterscotch.html

A slice of intrigue. . .

Mother's Day is a sweet and busy time at the candy shop Bailey King runs with her Amish grandmother. This year is extra special, because Bailey's parents are visiting Harvest, Ohio. Bailey's father has rarely returned since leaving the Amish faith over thirty years ago, but Bailey is confident that the right treats can help sugarcoat any awkwardness. For Mother's Day Tea at the local church, she's whipping up her mom's favorite: butterscotch fudge. All's going well, until a sticky-fingered thief makes off with the money raised for a local women's support group.

While Bailey tries to discover who stuck their fingers in the cookie jar, she encounters an assortment of suspects. It doesn't help that Juliet, mother of Deputy Aiden Brody, is conspiring with Bailey's mom to plan Aiden and Bailey's wedding...though they're not even engaged! Can Bailey find the culprit before events—both criminal and...]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:08:06 +0300 Toxic Toffee https://library.land/amanda-flower/480985-toxic_toffee.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/480985-toxic_toffee.html

A sweet tooth for murder . . .

Bailey King's in New York wrapping up a six-week shoot on her first cable TV show, Bailey's Amish Sweets, when she gets a call from her Ohio town's resident busybody. With Easter around the corner, Bailey's been recruited to create a giant toffee bunny for the weeklong springtime festival that will also feature live white rabbits. But back home in Harvest, death becomes the main attraction when Stephen Raber keels over from an apparent heart attack—with Bailey and Raber's pet bunny as witnesses.
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Except it wasn't Raber's heart that suddenly gave out—a lethal dose of lily of the valley was mixed into a tasty piece of toffee. Who'd want to poison a jovial rabbit farmer who reminded Bailey of an Amish Santa Claus? To solve the murder, she and her sheriff deputy boyfriend Aiden must uncover a twenty-year-old secret. She'll need to pull a rabbit out of a hat to keep a healthy distance from toxic people,...]]> Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:39:05 +0200 Matchmaking Can Be Murder https://library.land/amanda-flower/523231-matchmaking_can_be_murder.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/523231-matchmaking_can_be_murder.html

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 . ....]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:48:34 +0200 Criminally Cocoa https://library.land/amanda-flower/464872-criminally_cocoa.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/464872-criminally_cocoa.html

A taste for trouble . . .

As if being in New York City for Easter isn't exciting enough, Charlotte Weaver has another reason to be thrilled. She's helping her cousin, Bailey, on the set of her first cable TV show, Bailey's Amish Sweets. Bailey will even be re-creating the delectable hand-woven chocolate Easter baskets she once crafted for the city's world-famous JP Chocolates. But once things start rolling, Charlotte starts to notice odd things
happening—things that seem intended to make Bailey look bad . . .

With Bailey feeling extra nervous about being on camera, Charlotte decides to keep her suspicion of sabotage to herself. But she knows that among Bailey's fans at the Gourmet Television network lurks a dangerously jealous rival. Now Charlotte will have to find out who that person is—before sour grapes turns one of the sweetest times of the year fatally bitter . . .

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Flower's breezy debut introduces a quirky heroine—India Hayes, a librarian at Martin College in Stripling, Ohio, who's also an artist. India agrees, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, this time for her childhood friend, Olivia Blocken, for whom her brother, Mark, an assistant professor at Martin, still carries a torch. After Olivia left Stripling for college elsewhere, Mark suffered a breakdown and buried himself in mathematics. Not wanting to upset Mark, India doesn't tell him she's a bridesmaid in his lost love's wedding. When someone pushes Olivia to her death in the college fountain and Mark becomes the most likely murder suspect, India turns amateur sleuth in an effort to prove her brother's innocence. Warring cats and distinctive characters, like India's everything Irish landlady and her bizarre '60s activist parents, will appeal to cozy fans.]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:12:15 +0200 Murders and Metaphors https://library.land/amanda-flower/475716-murders_and_metaphors.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/475716-murders_and_metaphors.html

USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves!
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 get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she's already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins's book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds...]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:44:37 +0200 Assaulted Caramel https://library.land/amanda-flower/92074-assaulted_caramel.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/92074-assaulted_caramel.html

]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:31:29 +0200 A Plain Disappearance https://library.land/amanda-flower/92076-a_plain_disappearance.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/92076-a_plain_disappearance.html

USA Today recently hailed award-nominated author Amanda Flower for A Plain Death, calling it "the first Amish rom-com . . . bring on the next one!" As the enthusiastic reviews continue to mount, she's back with her third Appleseed Creek mystery, A Plain Disappearance.
It's Christmastime in Amish Country, and Chloe Humphrey has begun settling into her life in Appleseed Creek excited to see where her new relationship with Timothy Troyer will lead. Unfortunately it leads to murder when the couple discovers the body of Amish teenager Katie Lambright while on their first date.
Near the scene there is evidence that Timothy's friend and auto mechanic Billy Thorpe is involved with the crime. The police reveal Billy is not really who he said he was and has been living the last decade in Knox County under a stolen alias. Now, Chloe and Timothy must find Billy, bring him to justice, or prove his innocence.

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Twelve-year-old Andora 'Andi' Boggs and her new best friend Colin Carter couldn't be more excited to attend the prestigious science camp at the local university in Killdeer, Ohio. Unfortunately, Discovery Camp's curriculum appears to include much more than just chemistry and biology. From day one, the university is plagued by a series of pranks—missing markers, loose crickets, and stolen scales. Campus security blames the mysterious janitor Polk, but even though Andi agrees he's acting suspicious, she can't believe the gentle old man would do anything illegal. Then one prank goes too far and their chemistry professor is injured by an explosion in the lab, upping the stakes of the investigation. Andi and Colin must unravel the secrets behind the chemistry department and Polk's dark past before danger closes the camp for good.Praise for the series:2013 Agatha Award Nominee"In the upstanding tradition of Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy, Andi is spunky...]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:31:29 +0200 Maid of Murder (An India Hayes Mystery) https://library.land/amanda-flower/92071-maid_of_murder_an_india_hayes_mystery.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/92071-maid_of_murder_an_india_hayes_mystery.html

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:31:29 +0200 Appleseed Creek Trilogy, Books 1-3 https://library.land/amanda-flower/92072-appleseed_creek_trilogy_books_1-3.html https://library.land/amanda-flower/92072-appleseed_creek_trilogy_books_1-3.html

Take a thrill-ride filled with mystery, intrigue, murder, and romance with Amanda Flowers in this Appleseed Creek Series Trilogy. Chloe Humphrey never expected to play the role of murder detective when she moved to the quite Amish town of Appleseed Creek. With God's help, she will attempt to help solve the murder mysteries continuing to rock the small Amish town in this three part mystery series.]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:31:29 +0200