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Amish Candy Shop Mysteries Books in Order

Part ofAmanda Flower Books in Order

See all Amish Candy Shop Mysteries by Amanda Flower in reading order, with short summaries, series background, and guidance on novellas and holiday stories.

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

7

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.

8

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.

9

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.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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.

13

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.

14

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.

Series background & context

This page gathers the full range of Amish Candy Shop Mysteries, including the core novels, novellas, and holiday collection that follow Bailey King and her friends in Harvest, Ohio.

Across the main series, readers watch Bailey trade a sleek New York career for the slower rhythms of Swissmen Sweets, the Amish candy shop where she first learned to temper chocolate. The early books establish the key pieces of her new life: her widowed grandmother, the demanding but kind Deputy Aiden Brody, the town’s resident pig Jethro, and Margot Rawlings, whose love of festivals keeps Bailey baking under pressure.

Later novels build on that foundation. Seasonal cases involve everything from a Thanksgiving dinner that ends in a fatal allergic reaction to a community blueberry festival overshadowed by a construction site murder. A Christmas story about a Candy Land themed celebration and a factory grand opening pushes Bailey to juggle television cameras, family, and an apparent accident that is anything but. Emerging characters, like Amish workers at the shop and town busybodies with their own secrets, give each mystery a slightly different flavor.

The shorter stories collected in Amish Candy Shop Holidays fit neatly between the full length books but are enjoyable on their own. In “Criminally Cocoa,” Charlotte helps on the set of Bailey’s first TV show and uncovers sabotage. “Botched Butterscotch” covers a stolen fundraiser during a Mother’s Day tea, and “Candy Cane Crime” follows a holiday note exchange that turns into a personal turning point for Charlotte.

Taken together, the series offers a layered portrait of Harvest over several years. Relationships deepen or shift, businesses grow, and members of the Amish community wrestle with questions of tradition, forgiveness, and how much contact with the outside world is too much. The candy shop itself remains the cozy heart of the books, a place where people come for comfort even as dangerous secrets occasionally slip in the back door.

If you want to read everything connected to Bailey’s world, including novellas and the holiday omnibus, this is the sequence to follow.

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