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Browse all Amanda Flower books in order, with series lists, short summaries, reading order guidance, and tips on where to start her cozy, historical, and middle grade mysteries.

Last updated: January 16, 2026

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Truffle Trouble

by Amanda Flower

2026

A summer wedding that should be a highlight for Bailey King turns somber when tragedy strikes the festivities and chocolate truffles become linked to a sudden death. With beloved pig Jethro underfoot and emotions high, Bailey races to uncover who turned a joyful celebration into a crime scene.

Not They Who Soar

by Amanda Flower

2025

Katharine Wright travels with her college friend to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, eager to see new inventions and represent her famous brothers. When a death at the exposition draws her into a web of ambition, prejudice, and exhibition politics, she once again becomes the only person positioned to see the whole puzzle.

Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off

by Amanda Flower

2025

After remarrying, Millie Fisher agrees to a girls’ trip with Lois to an Amish snowbird community in Florida. Their plans for sunshine and relaxation vanish when a young woman from their tour group is found dead on the beach, and the pair must sift through vacation romances and old grudges to find a killer far from home.

Natural Barn Killer

by Amanda Flower

2025

Thanksgiving at Bellamy Farm takes a dark turn when Shiloh’s mischievous pug spooks the chickens and uncovers human remains near the barn. As old secrets about her grandmother’s past surface and threaten the farm’s good name, Shiloh digs into a cold case someone in Cherry Glen would prefer stayed buried.

I Died for Beauty

by Amanda Flower

2025

Emily Dickinson and Willa Noble face another unsettling death in Amherst, where questions of politics, reputation, and hidden alliances swirl around a victim who knew too much. Caught between powerful townspeople and their own sense of justice, the pair once again risk their safety to bring the truth to light.

Caturday Crime

by Amanda Flower

2025

After timid bank employee Kinley Remington is fired over a misunderstanding involving wealthy client Penelope Slope and a missing diamond necklace, she goes to apologize and finds Penelope running a bustling cat rescue from her mansion. When Penelope is murdered and Kinley is left to care for the cats and defend herself, she turns reluctant sleuth in a town full of suspects.

To Slip the Bonds of Earth

by Amanda Flower

2024

While Wilbur and Orville test their flying machine in Kitty Hawk, their sister Katharine keeps things running in Dayton. After vital flight plans go missing at a social gathering and a guest is found murdered, Katharine must use her wits and social position to protect her brothers from scandal and find the culprit.

Gingerbread Danger

by Amanda Flower

2024

Christmas in Harvest brings a Candy Land themed celebration and the grand opening of Bailey’s candy factory, anchored by her new gingerbread men. When an Amish friend is killed in an apparent accident outside the factory and hints of betrayal surface, Bailey must cut through small town politics and old resentments to protect her community.

Crime and Cherry Pits

by Amanda Flower

2024

Landing a booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City is a huge win for Shiloh Bellamy and her Michigan orchard. When a drama professor collapses during the famous cherry pit spitting contest and Shiloh’s cousin is linked to the victim, Shiloh must clear her family while competing in a very public spotlight.

In Farm's Way

by Amanda Flower

2023

Just as Shiloh Bellamy starts to feel Bellamy Farm is truly recovering, tension over land use and old family disputes boils over into another suspicious death. Facing pressure from neighbors, developers, and her own relatives, Shiloh has to plow through lies to keep her hard won second chance from collapsing.

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

by Amanda Flower

2023

In 1856, the Dickinson family hosts famed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and his young secretary, Luther Howard. When Luther is found poisoned in the garden and gossip threatens the household’s reputation, Emily Dickinson and maid Willa Noble must untangle romantic schemes and social climbing to catch a killer close to home.

Dating Can Be Deadly

by Amanda Flower

2023

A film crew’s arrival in Harvest to document a forty year old unsolved killing stirs up painful memories for Millie’s old friend Uriah, who believes the newly discovered skeleton is his missing sister. As past and present collide, Millie and Lois must prove what really happened before another life is ruined.

Blueberry Blunder

by Amanda Flower

2023

Bailey King is building a new candy factory in Harvest and filming a reality show about the project when her difficult contractor is found dead at the site during a blueberry festival. With cameras rolling, Amish workers wary of publicity, and plenty of people who hated the victim, Bailey has to solve the case under intense scrutiny.

Put Out to Pasture

by Amanda Flower

2022

Shiloh Bellamy is finally hosting a fall festival at Bellamy Farm when a woman’s body is found propped under a scarecrow in a corn maze. With her childhood best friend emerging as the prime suspect, Shiloh has to dig through small town grudges and family drama to save both her friend and the farm’s reputation.

Peanut Butter Panic

by Amanda Flower

2022

Thanksgiving should be good publicity for Swissmen Sweets, which is providing desserts for Harvest’s first village wide holiday meal. But when a powerful guest with a peanut allergy dies after dinner and suspicion falls on Bailey’s confections and a tangle of strained relationships, she has to separate accident from murder.

Hotel California

by Amanda Flower

2022

This crime anthology gathers darkly atmospheric tales inspired by the song "Hotel California," including Amanda Flower’s contribution about secrets, betrayal, and murder in and around a mysterious California hotel where checking in is far easier than getting out.

Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous

by Amanda Flower

2022

In Harvest’s busy wedding season, Amish matchmaker Millie Fisher is drawn into trouble when a honeymooning couple’s visit ends with a suspicious death. Navigating new relationships, jealousies, and long memories, Millie and Lois once again follow a trail of quiet clues through their seemingly peaceful village.

Frozen Detective

by Amanda Flower

2022

Hired to find out who is sending threatening notes to a celebrity dermatologist, Darby Piper and Tate Porter go undercover as a couple at a lavish New Year’s gathering at a mountain lodge. When their client is killed by an arrow during a snowstorm that traps everyone at the resort, the pair must unmask a killer among the guests.

Crimes and Covers

by Amanda Flower

2022

As Violet Waverly prepares to marry police chief David Rainwater, a troubled woman visits Charming Books with an extremely valuable first edition of *Walden*. After Violet refuses to buy it without an appraisal and the woman later turns up dead in the icy river, Violet must recover the missing book and solve a murder guided by Thoreau’s words.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

by Amanda Flower

2022

In 1855 Amherst, maid Willa Noble lands a job in the Dickinson household and soon loses her beloved brother in what is called a stable accident. Convinced it was murder, she joins forces with Emily Dickinson to investigate, uncovering corruption, danger on the Underground Railroad, and truths that powerful men would rather bury.

Marriage Can Be Mischief

by Amanda Flower

2021

When long buried bones are discovered near an old covered bridge, Millie Fisher learns they may be tied to a runaway bride from decades earlier. Determined to help an old friend finally clear her name, Millie and Lois stitch together secrets from the past that someone in Harvest would rather keep hidden.

Lemon Drop Dead

by Amanda Flower

2021

Bailey throws a lemon themed baby shower for her assistant Emily Keim, hoping the party will heal rifts in Emily’s family. A mysterious woman arrives hinting at a long kept secret, then later turns up dead with evidence pointing to Emily’s estranged sister, forcing Bailey to squeeze the truth out of a bitter situation.

Farm to Trouble

by Amanda Flower

2021

Shiloh Bellamy leaves her Los Angeles TV job to save her family’s Michigan farm, investing everything in a plan to go organic. After she takes on a controversial investor who is soon found shot at the farmers’ market, Shiloh must protect her father and her new future by unearthing a killer in Cherry Glen.

Amish Candy Shop Holidays

by Amanda Flower

2021

This collection gathers three shorter Amish Candy Shop tales: Charlotte investigates sabotage on the set of Bailey’s TV show in New York, Bailey tracks a fundraiser thief at a Mother’s Day tea, and Charlotte’s Candy Cane Exchange uncovers both a secret admirer and a Christmastime caper in Harvest.

Mums and Mayhem

by Amanda Flower

2020

World famous fiddler Barley McFee returns to Bellewick for a homecoming concert that florist Fiona Knox has reluctantly helped organize. When he is found dead in his trailer and evidence points toward Fiona’s father, she must clear his name while also trying to save Duncreigan’s magical garden, which begins to wither after someone mutilates its ancient climbing rose.

Marshmallow Malice

by Amanda Flower

2020

Bailey is determined to make her friends’ outdoor summer wedding perfect, including a towering marshmallow frosted cake that threatens to melt in the heat. When an uninvited guest collapses and dies during the ceremony and secrets about the groom’s past emerge, Bailey races to clear the couple’s names and save the celebration.

Dead-End Detective

by Amanda Flower

2020

Darby Piper is devastated when her mentor and business partner Samantha Porter dies in a car crash that looks staged. Learning Samantha left her share of their detective agency to her nephew Tate, Darby reluctantly teams up with him to investigate their friend’s death and keep both of them out of jail.

Courting Can Be Killer

by Amanda Flower

2020

As winter settles over Harvest, Millie Fisher worries that the young people in her care are choosing partners for the wrong reasons. When a death that looks like an accident strikes someone connected to the courting scene, Millie and Lois probe beneath the surface of Amish and English relationships to uncover a quiet killer.

Candy Cane Crime

by Amanda Flower

2020

Overwhelmed by holiday orders, Bailey lets her cousin Charlotte run Harvest’s Candy Cane Exchange, pairing sweet notes with peppermint treats. When some of the anonymous messages are for Charlotte and she notices something shady behind the festivities, she enlists a deputy’s help to untangle romance from wrongdoing.

Botched Butterscotch

by Amanda Flower

2020

Mother’s Day keeps Swissmen Sweets hopping, especially with Bailey’s parents visiting and a church tea to cater. After the cash raised for a local women’s group is stolen, Bailey digs through petty grudges and quiet desperation to find who slipped sticky fingers into the donation box.

Verse and Vengeance

by Amanda Flower

2019

Violet reluctantly agrees to ride in the Tour de Cascade bicycle race with police chief David Rainwater to raise funds for an Underground Railroad museum. When a private investigator dies after his bike’s brakes fail and Violet looks guilty, she must rely on Charming Books and the poetry of Walt Whitman to steer her toward the truth.

Toxic Toffee

by Amanda Flower

2019

Back in Harvest for Easter, Bailey is enlisted to create a giant toffee bunny for a spring festival featuring live rabbits. When a beloved rabbit farmer dies after eating poisoned candy, Bailey and Deputy Aiden Brody must sift through old secrets and recent grudges to find who used sweets as a weapon.

Murders and Metaphors

by Amanda Flower

2019

Ice wine season brings a celebrity sommelier back to Cascade Springs for a book signing hosted by Charming Books at a vineyard. When she is found dead among the frozen vines and Violet’s childhood friend becomes the main suspect, the magical bookshop starts pushing *Little Women* at Violet, hinting that sisterly dynamics hold the key.

Matchmaking Can Be Murder

by Amanda Flower

2019

Widowed Amish matchmaker Millie Fisher returns to Harvest and is alarmed when her niece becomes engaged to rude, grasping Zeke Miller. After Millie finally talks Edith into breaking it off, Zeke is found dead in Edith’s greenhouse, and Millie teams up with her outspoken English friend Lois to protect her niece from a murder charge.

Criminally Cocoa

by Amanda Flower

2019

Bailey’s cousin Charlotte travels to New York City to help on the set of Bailey’s first cable TV show, only to notice a string of mishaps that make her cousin look incompetent. Certain someone is sabotaging the production, Charlotte follows the trail behind the cameras to unmask a jealous rival.

Premeditated Peppermint

by Amanda Flower

2018

Christmas in Harvest is complicated enough for Bailey King without her celebrity chef ex-boyfriend showing up with a TV crew. When his producer is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect, Bailey is caught between her past and present as she searches for the real killer.

Lethal Licorice

by Amanda Flower

2018

Determined to honor her late grandfather, Bailey enters the Amish Confectionery Competition with her innovative candies. When a rival candy maker dies from an allergic reaction to licorice and Bailey and the woman’s rebellious niece top the suspect list, Bailey digs into small town grudges and family tensions to clear them both.

Flowers and Foul Play

by Amanda Flower

2018

After her fiancé leaves and her flower shop fails, Fiona Knox heads to Scotland to claim a cottage inherited from her godfather. She finds the once magical walled garden dying and a lawyer’s body among the flowers, and soon realizes that reviving Duncreigan might require catching a murderer.

Death and Daisies

by Amanda Flower

2018

Settling into life in Bellewick, Fiona opens a flower shop and tends the enchanted garden she inherited. When a rigid local minister who disapproved of her presence is found dead by the sea, suspicion falls close to home, and Fiona must uncover who wanted him silenced while the garden reacts in unsettling ways.

The Final Vow

by Amanda Flower

2017

Summer weddings at Barton Farm keep Kelsey Cambridge busy, but nothing prepares her for being forced to host her ex husband’s ceremony on site. When the demanding wedding planner is found dead at the chapel and the farm’s future is threatened, Kelsey once again has to balance public history with very private motives.

Assaulted Caramel

by Amanda Flower

2017

On the cusp of a big promotion at a New York chocolate company, Bailey King rushes to Harvest, Ohio, after news of her grandfather’s heart trouble. When she finds a real estate developer dead in her grandparents’ Amish candy shop with her grandfather’s knife in his chest, Bailey stays to clear his name and protect the family business.

The Final Tap

by Amanda Flower

2016

To beat the winter slump, Kelsey Cambridge organizes a Maple Sugar Festival at Barton Farm and hires a celebrated but difficult maple sugar expert to teach classes. Before the first tree can be tapped he is found dead, threatening the festival and the museum, and Kelsey must find a killer among reenactors and rivals.

Prose and Cons

by Amanda Flower

2016

During Cascade Springs’ Food and Wine Festival, Violet agrees to host a Poe themed reading in Charming Books’ enchanted garden. When one of the writers is discovered dead and the shop keeps thrusting Poe’s tales at her, Violet must decode the literary clues before another dark story turns real.

Murder, Handcrafted

by Isabella Alan

2016

Spring in Rolling Brook finds Angie juggling Running Stitch and a big home renovation project her mother has forced on her. When the electrician working on the house is discovered dead and the death looks suspicious, Angie is drawn into a mystery where every subcontractor and family member has something to hide.

Crime and Poetry

by Amanda Flower

2016

Violet Waverly races home to Cascade Springs after hearing her grandmother is ill, only to find Grandma Daisy healthy and intent on handing her the family bookshop. When a local man is found dead holding a volume from Charming Books and Daisy is blamed, Violet has to trust the shop’s subtle magic to point her toward the real murderer.

The Final Reveille

by Amanda Flower

2015

Kelsey Cambridge, director of Barton Farm living history museum, stakes the site’s future on a Civil War reenactment meant to impress a wealthy benefactor. When the benefactor’s hard edged nephew is found dead on the grounds and Kelsey becomes the main suspect, she must solve the crime to save both herself and the farm.

Murder, Plainly Read

by Isabella Alan

2015

Helping organize the library’s annual book sale, Angie teams up with outspoken bookmobile librarian Austina Shaker. After a cranky Amish bishop publicly vows to ruin Austina and is later found dead in her bookmobile, Austina becomes the chief suspect, and Angie must prove her friend was framed.

Andi Unstoppable

by Amanda Flower

2015

Rumors of a ghostly train and strange accidents near the tracks pull Andi Boggs and Colin into their most dangerous case yet. As they follow clues through woods, ravines, and old town legends, they uncover a buried secret someone is willing to protect at any cost.

Murder, Simply Stitched

by Isabella Alan

2014

To boost business for Running Stitch, Angie Braddock enters quilts in the Rolling Brook Amish Auction, only to find a township trustee dead behind a canning shed. With her best friend, baker Rachel Miller, suddenly the top suspect, Angie and the quilting circle must piece together clues before the community tears apart.

Murder, Served Simply

by Isabella Alan

2014

Christmas in Rolling Brook brings Angie's visiting parents, an ex-boyfriend, and a progressive dinner that ends with an Amish themed play in a barn. When an actress plummets from the set and dies, tensions between Amish and Englisch flare, and Angie has to sort theatrical rivalries from murderous intent.

Andi Under Pressure

by Amanda Flower

2014

Andi Boggs and her best friend Colin are thrilled to attend a prestigious science camp at the local university. Their excitement fades as a string of pranks escalates into a lab explosion that injures a professor, and the pair must uncover who is behind the sabotage before the camp is shut down for good.

A Plain Malice

by Amanda Flower

2014

A new Amish bishop invites a bus tour from Mississippi to visit Appleseed Creek, hoping tourism will help the struggling district. When two visitors die after a milking demonstration on the Troyer farm, suspicion falls on Timothy’s family, and Chloe goes undercover on the tour to clear their name.

Plainly Murder

by Isabella Alan

2013

Angie Braddock comes to Rolling Brook to help her Aunt Eleanor at the Amish quilt shop Running Stitch and ends up investigating a decades old tragedy. When a clue hidden in an old quilt suggests that a barn raising “accident” was really murder, Angie must decide how far to dig into one family’s darkest secret.

Murder, Plain and Simple

by Isabella Alan

2013

After inheriting her aunt’s Amish quilt shop, Angie Braddock trades her city life for Holmes County, Ohio, hoping for a fresh start. The dream unravels when she finds a local woodworker dead in her storeroom and evidence starts pointing her way, forcing Angie to investigate before the sheriff hauls her off.

Andi Unexpected

by Amanda Flower

2013

Twelve year old Andi Boggs and her sister move in with their quirky aunt after their parents die in a plane crash. In the attic Andi discovers a trunk labeled with her own name and filled with clues to a forgotten relative, sending her and new friend Colin on a mystery rooted in the Great Depression.

A Plain Scandal

by Amanda Flower

2013

Appleseed Creek is shaken when someone begins cutting the long hair and beards of Amish men and women, then an Amish businessman is found stabbed with his beard shorn. Chloe Humphrey, still new to the community, feels compelled to help her friends by uncovering who is attacking the peaceful district and why.

A Plain Disappearance

by Amanda Flower

2013

At Christmastime in Amish country, Chloe Humphrey is finally settling into life in Appleseed Creek and a budding relationship with Timothy Troyer. Their first official date turns grim when they discover the body of a missing Amish teen, pulling Chloe into a case that threatens both her romance and her friendships.

Murder in a Basket

by Amanda Flower

2012

While working a face painting booth at Stripling’s Founders’ Festival, India Hayes is horrified to discover the basket weaver in the next stall dead. With the victim tied to the college provost and a shy student begging for help, India wades into family greed, academic politics, and one very pampered dog’s fortune.

A Plain Death

by Amanda Flower

2012

Computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves to Appleseed Creek to run technology at a small college and hits culture shock right away. When ex-Amish teen Becky, driving Chloe’s car, is involved in a buggy accident that kills a bishop and a cut brake line is found, Chloe has to uncover who was really meant to die.

Maid of Murder

by Amanda Flower

2010

College librarian India Hayes agrees to be a bridesmaid for her childhood friend, only to find the bride dead in the campus fountain and her own brother accused of the crime. To clear him, India must juggle wedding drama, eccentric relatives, and a dangerous search for the killer.

Where should I start?

If you want Amish cozy mysteries with lots of sweets: Assaulted CaramelLethal LicoricePremeditated PeppermintToxic Toffee
If you like a touch of magic with your cozies: Crime and PoetryProse and ConsMurders and MetaphorsVerse and Vengeance
If you prefer historical sleuths: Because I Could Not Stop for DeathI Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
If you enjoy librarian and campus mysteries: Maid of MurderMurder in a Basket
For younger readers (about ages 9–12): Andi UnexpectedAndi Under PressureAndi Unstoppable

Author bio

Amanda Flower grew up near Akron, Ohio, with her nose in a mystery novel and a knack for making people laugh. In sixth grade she wrote a story about being stuck at the top of a Ferris wheel and had her classmates roaring, a small classroom moment she later pointed to as the instant she realized that writing stories could be her life.

She stayed close to books in a very practical way. After college and graduate school she became an academic librarian in Northeast Ohio, working at small colleges and eventually at Ursuline College near her hometown. Right out of grad school she also took a job in Mount Vernon, Ohio, where she lived in the heart of Amish country for several years. That city girl in Amish country experience, complete with spotty cell service and culture shock, would one day turn into the backbone of her Appleseed Creek mysteries.

For years she balanced shelving and reference shifts by day with drafting chapters at night. Her debut mystery, Maid of Murder, introduced India Hayes, an artist and college librarian in a fictional Ohio town who finds herself drawn into a wedding day homicide. The book was published in 2010 and went on to be nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel, quietly launching Flower into the cozy mystery world she had loved as a reader.

From there, she began to explore the Amish setting she knew so well. In the Appleseed Creek series, starting with A Plain Death, twenty something computer specialist Chloe Humphrey moves to rural Ohio and collides with a tight knit Amish community, ugly secrets, and a murder that looks a lot like an accident. Those books pulled directly from Flower’s own years living near the Amish, and they opened the door to even more Amish themed mysteries.

Under the pen name Isabella Alan, she created the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries, which follow quilt shop owner Angie Braddock in Holmes County. That series became a USA Today bestseller and cemented Flower’s reputation for warm, funny whodunits set in small towns where everyone seems to know a little too much about everyone else. Around the same time she launched the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries, sending big city chocolatier Bailey King back to her grandparents’ candy store in Harvest, Ohio, for a steady stream of festivals, fudge, and bodies.

Flower also writes for younger readers. Her Andi Boggs series, beginning with Andi Unexpected, follows a science loving twelve year old who moves to a small Ohio college town after a family tragedy and stumbles onto a mystery rooted in the Great Depression. Books in that series picked up multiple Agatha Award nominations, and Andi Unstoppable won the 2015 Agatha for Best Children’s or Young Adult novel.

In recent years she has turned more toward historical mystery while keeping her light touch. Her Emily Dickinson Mystery series imagines the poet partnering with an observant housemaid to investigate crimes in mid nineteenth century Amherst, starting with Because I Could Not Stop for Death, which won the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel and was a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She has also begun the Katharine Wright Mysteries, featuring the equally gifted sister of the Wright brothers as an amateur sleuth in early aviation days.

Across all of these series, certain threads repeat. Flower likes ordinary people who get pushed into extraordinary situations, small communities with long memories, and a blend of faith, family, and second chances. Her stories lean on humor and affection more than cynicism, even when they dig into painful secrets.

Today she is a full time writer living in Northeast Ohio with her husband on a habitat farm that doubles as a recording studio. The property is also home to a shifting population of rescue cats, many of whom turn up on the page in one form or another. When she is not drafting her next mystery, she is often traveling to libraries and book festivals, talking with readers, and quietly filing away real life quirks for future characters.

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