Millie Fisher moves back to her Amish community in Harvest, Ohio, after tending to her ill sister in Michigan. In Matchmaking Can Be Murder by Amanda Flower, Millie is a matchmaker and she notices love is not flourishing in Harvest including her with niece Edith. (Matchmaking Can Be Murder will be released by Kensington Publishing Corp. on December 31.)

Edith, a widow, has been engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller since the winter and the wedding is occurring soon. But Edith doesn't appear to be marrying Zeke for love. When she tells her aunt, she plans to break off the engagement, Millie is not surprised. It doesn't appear Edith is in love with Zeke and is only marrying him for the welfare of her children. 

When Zeke turns up dead in Edith's greenhouse from a blow to his head, the police believe Edith killed him. Millie knows her sweet, quiet niece could not have killed Zeke, but she needs to investigate to determine who did.  As she learns more about Zeke, she learns his main goal in marrying Edith was to take control of her highly successful business, but Zeke was not a good businessman and he drove customers and employees away. 

Millie also learns he was seeing someone else, and not a woman from the Amish community. When she learns the other woman is the niece of her best friend, she fears for their newly reconnected friendship.  With her friend Lois Henry as her sidekick, the Amish Marple, as Lois called Millie, begin to weed out suspects. 

A very entertaining and enlightening book about the life and times of the Amish community, plus an interesting mystery. Looking forwards to the two senior detectives' next adventure. 

Matchmacking Can Be Murder is the first in a new series by Amanda Flower, and it overlaps with the Amish Candy Stop series featuring non-Amish candymaker Bailey King.

Leaving New York and returning to Amish Country in Ohio has been a huge adjustment for Bailey King, but she has managed to slow herself down and discover the joys of a quieter life. In Premeditated Peppermint by Amanda Flower, Bailey is busy making peppermint cakes, fudge and other goodies for the annual Christmas Market.

A word of caution, if you are a peppermint fanatic, such as myself, do not read this without a stash of peppermint patties or candy canes nearby. 

Bailey and Deputy Aidan Brody have been tiptoeing around each other even since she arrived, though his mother Juliet practically has them engaged. Trouble in the form of Bailey's obnoxious ex-boyfriend strolls into her grandmother's shop, Swissmen Sweets.

It seems celebrity chef Eric Sharp needs to rehabilitate his edgy reputation by softening his image and he thinks filming in an Amish Christmas candy shop is the answer. Bailey wants no part of it, but is pressured by the high-powered executive producer of the show Rocky Rivers into at least asking her grandmother if they can use the candy shop.

Bailey knows her Amish grandmother would not want to be in any of the filming, but she also knows
the bishop and the deacon of the church need to make the final decision. Suddenly a spin-off series featuring Bailey and the shop takes form and before she knows it, Bailey is thinking of the money she can make for her grandmother.

One gigantic problem rears its head - Rocky is found strangled in the gazebo and a local farmer is thought to be the killer. Something doesn't seem right to Bailey and she sets out to find the real killer.

Life in an Amish community is so different than anything I have ever experienced and I enjoy this series immensely, especially the candy aspect of it.

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