Lemon Drop Dead by Amanda Flower review

 Title:  Lemon Drop Dead

 Author: Amanda Flower

 Series: Amish Candy Shop Mystery book 6

Chapters: 35 plus Epilogue

Pages: 320

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 3.5 stars

Publisher: Kensington

    While I still enjoy the Amish Candy Shop cozy mystery series by Amanda Flower, Lemon Drop Dead was not my favorite of the series. But I did enjoy Bailey sort of learning that she could pass off project from Margot to others. I still love Bailey's close relationship with her grandma even though her grandmother is Amish. But most importantly want I liked most about this one and it wasn't related to the mystery. Was the fact that Charlotte finally made her choice, and I think it was the right one for her, and it was a choice that only she could make. 

 

 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

 

Toxic Toffee Review

Title:  Toxic Toffee 

Author: Amanda Flower 

Series:  Amish Candy Shop Mystery Book 4 

Chapters: 40 plus epilogue 

Pages:304

Genre: Cozy Mystery 

Rating: 4 stars 

Publisher:  Kensington 

Toxic Toffee is the fourth book in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series.  Bailey King is back in Harvest Ohio after filming a cooking show in New York when she's hit with an Easter crisis to make a giant bunny made out of toffee for the town's Easter celebration. 

However, she finds herself in the midst of another murder when the Amish rabbit farmer drops dead in front of her.  Aiden the sheriff's deputy wants her to stay out of it before she becomes the next victim.  

Each of the Amish Candy shop mysteries gets better than the one before it, especially now that Bailey is starting to see Harvest Ohio as home she's got a stake in the community and solving the murders and making sure the Amish community is treated fairly something her and Aiden can agree on even if the sheriff doesn't see it that way. 

I look forward to the next book in the series.  As well as other books by the author. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Criminally Cocoa review

Title:  Criminally Cocoa

Author:  Amanda Flower

Series: Amish Candy Shop Mystery 3.5

Chapters: 13 plus epilogue

Pages: 86

Genre: cozy mystery

Rating: 3 stars

Criminally Cocoa is a novella in the Amish Candy shop mystery series that is best read between books 3 and four.  Bailey is in New York filming a candy making show, and Charlotte Weaver an Amish girl who is not only Bailey's grandma's cousin but she works in the candy shop is along for the trip.  This little cozy is told from Charlotte's point of view making it different from previous books in the series. But with this one you get to see a bit of what Charlotte's like as well as bits and pieces of her backstory and her doubts about decisions she has to make soon.
This even by cozy standards is a quick read. At only 13 chapters and 86 pages I finished this book in two hours. It is a fast read and even though it’s not the best mystery of the series it’s still pretty good. It's a great book for cozy fans who want an even lighter read than they normally read.

I do recommend that you read this series in order especially if you don't want to be spoiled for anything in previous books. If you’re a cozy fan I recommend this series and if you've read Amanda's other series, I highly recommend this one.




I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Review of Premeditated Peppermint

Title:  Premeditated Peppermint

Author: Amanda Flower

Series: Amish Candy Shop mystery book 3

 

Chapters: 38 plus epilogue

Pages: 341

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

Premediated Peppermint is the third book in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series by Amanda Flower.  Bailey King's favorite time of year just happens to be Christmas time. Especially now that's she back home in Ohio helping run her grandparents Amish candy shop.  This Christmas is bitter sweet as it's Bailey's first without some close to her.  She's growing to a certain deputy sheriff. Whom his mother and her pet pig are trying to play matchmaker. However what Bailey didn't count on her ex-boyfriend showing up with a TV crew in tow. But then when the producer is found murder her ex-boyfriend becomes the prime suspect.  Bailey is determined to clear his name so she can get home out of her town.

Since Christmas is also my favorite time of the year I enjoyed this Christmas cozy mystery.  I think it may be my favorite of the series so far. Gotta love Jerto the pet pig 

Bailey is one of my favorite cozy mystery sleuths.  I can also relate to part of what Bailey is going through in the book of getting through that first holiday season without a loved one.   This book is perfect for fans of cozy mysteries. Christmas mysteries and Christmas books in general.  This book is a fairly quick read perfect to read in either November or December. Or anytime if you want that Christmas feeling say in July.   

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.