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    Lethal Licorice
    Lethal Licorice
    Lethal Licorice
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    Lethal Licorice

    Written by Amanda Flower

    Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell

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    Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a head chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents' candy shop. Now, while caring for her recently widowed grandmother, she plans to honor her grandfather's memory by entering the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. But between lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Bailey may have bitten off more than she can chew when the search for a missing pot-bellied pig turns up a body suffering from sugar overload-the fatal kind . . .

    A candy maker from a neighboring town who wanted Englischer Bailey disqualified for being an outsider, Josephine Weaver died from an allergy to an essential licorice ingredient. The suspects include: Josephine's niece, a young woman going through her rumspringa, or running around time, and Bailey herself. Now it falls to Bailey, who's sweet on the local sheriff's deputy, to clear their names and entice a killer with a cast-iron stomach for cold-blooded murder . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781541488373
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    Amanda Flower

    Amanda Flower is an Agatha Award-nominated mystery author (Maid of Murder), who first caught the writing bug in elementary school. She is also the author of Andi Unexpected, the Andi Boggs series, Appleseed Creek and the India Hayes series. When she’s not writing, she works as a librarian at Ursuline College near her hometown of Tallmadge, Ohio. Visit her online at www.amandaflower.com and www.isabellaalan.com.

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    • 3/5
      Harvest hosts this year's Amish Confectionary Competition, and Bailey enters to honor her Amish grandfather's memory. Some Amish candy makers express displeasure the non-Amish Bailey can enter the contest, but the event registration took place before her grandfather's death so the judges allowed her to compete. A Berlin confectioner turns up dead inside the organ, and Bailey can't resist doing a little investigation between competition rounds. A missing polka-dotted pig also factors in the plot. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator drove me crazy with her incorrect pronunciation of Berlin. (In Ohio, it is BER-lin, not Ber-LIN.) Bailey is the typical amateur sleuth who takes far too many chances. The budding romance between Bailey and deputy Aiden continues to grow, and his mother definitely pushes it. While more critical of the Amish than most Amish fiction, the author depicts the struggles of an Amish lifestyle.
    • 5/5
      In this outing of the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries, we find Bailey adjusting to life in Harvest, Ohio. She is staying with her grandmother and running the Amish Candy shop, Swissmen Sweets. Her grandfather had been accepted as a competitor in the Amish Confectionary Contest, so with his untimely death, Bailey finds herself taking his place even though she is not Amish. She must make all her candy in the Amish tradition in the contest, but this is not enough for some of the other competitors. The first day of the competition finds her dealing with a host of ill feelings and with finding a dead body in the church. Of course she is a suspect as the victim is one of the people she recently had words with. While competing, she is trying to gather clues as to the murderer and who would have a motive, helping some of the other competitors, worrying about her cousin who is having difficulty with the Deacon in her Amish Section and fighting off her fledgling feelings for Aiden, the local police officer. It seems like a lot for one book, but Amanda Flower does an amazing job with the plot, developing the story nicely.

      I really like Bailey. She is not Amish, but has great respect for the Amish people and their traditions. She is kind and caring to everyone. She is a smart cookie, but unfortunately still gets herself into some sticky situations while investigating. Aiden is a real sweetheart. He is also very respectful of the Amish people and their ways, unlike the police chief. He is playing it cool and moving slowly with Bailey, but you can definitely see his feelings for her developing. Bailey's grandmother is a wonderful influence on her, but is very accepting of her personality and decisions. The other recurring characters continue to add much to the story and their character development is well done. The friendly polka dot, pot bellied pig, Jethro, disappears at the beginning of the story, but makes a huge impact when he is finally located near the end. I had no idea about the ending of this book. Lots of twists and surprises that kept me reading late into the night. A fun cozy that I really enjoyed. I am looking forward to the next installment in this series. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.
    • 5/5
      Bailey King left her job in New York City to help her Amish grandmother, who is still mourning the death of her husband, in her candy store Swissmen Sweets. Bailey loves her grandmother and she loves making chocolate but some of the Amish aren't as fond of Englischer Bailey and one of them, Josephine Weaver, wants Bailey disqualified from the Amish Confectionary Competition. Bailey is allowed to compete but when Josephine is found dead Bailey is one of the suspects in her murder. Now she needs to work to clear her name and that of her cousin Charlotte, another suspect whom Bailey is convinced is innocent - but will her sleuthing make her the next victim?“Lethal Licorice” is a nicely done cozy mystery. This is the first book I have read in Amanda Flower’s Amish Candy Shop cozy mystery series and I really enjoyed it. I love the setting - the Amish candy shop and the cooking competition - and the characters. Bailey's Amish grandmother is still mourning the loss of her husband and as much as Bailey wants to help her she is beginning to realize that she is English or can only do so much and maybe never will be able to help her as much as she wants to. The relationship between the two is well done. The Amish versus Englischer relationship is front and center in this book - Flower doesn't sugarcoat the Amish lifestyle or the relationships between the Amish and Englischer. The mystery is well plotted with plenty of suspects - I thought I had figured out whodunit but was taken by surprise when the killer was revealed.“Lethal Licorice” is a nicely done cozy mystery.
    • 4/5
      Not much time has passed since Bailey moved to Harvest, Ohio to help her grandmother run their family candy store. Turns out, she can represent Swissmen Sweets in the annual Amish Confectionery Competition that her grandfather has signed the shop up for before he passed away. There is a missing pic and pretty stiff competition for what seems to be such a mild mannered people. When a Amish store owner is found dead, Bailey, along with her new friends and family, look into what could have happened to the unlikable Josephine Weaver. I was a bit worried the pig would be forgotten, but the story's twists and turns kept me reading and guessing to the end.
    • 4/5
      Bailey King has given up her dreams of being a top chocolatier in New York and returned to the Amish country in Harvest, OH to help her grandmother in their candy business and in particular in this book make the candies the Amish way for the Amish Confectionery Competition. One of the other Amish entrants is not happy that Bailey is their since technically she is not Amish, but Bailey is allowed to continued since she is representing her grandmother's shop. The other entrant is found dead, however, from an allergic reaction to licorice (the main ingredient for one of the candies being made in the competition). Since Bailey and the victim were seen arguing and she was one of the people who found the body, Bailey feels compelled to investigate to clear her name. This was a fun mystery with numerous twists and turns but also great characters and yummy sounding candy!Can't wait for another trip to the Amish country!
    • 5/5
      Bailey is English but her ancestry is Amish. She recently moved back to her grandmother’s community to help her run her Amish candy shop after her grandfather’s death. She is slowly expanding the shop’s offerings to the delight of their customers. Though allowed to use electricity and machinery in the shop, an Amish candy-making contest forbids it. Bailey can adjust to that rule, but some other contestants think it is unfair that that an Englisher is allowed to compete in an Amish competition. Bailey thinks that dispute is the biggest problem she faces at the moment, and it is, until she stumbles across a dead body. Much happens in this delightful cozy, including a budding romance with the handsome deputy. Though this is only the second book in the series, these characters already feel like old friends, thanks to the writing talent of the author Amanda Flower.
    • 5/5
      enjoyed reading this second book set in Harvest Ohio, now you might want to pick up the first book, Assaulted Caramel, but the author brings you up to date.Our candy maker, a daughter of a man who left the Amish faith, came to visit her Grandparents, and ends up staying to help her Grandmother run their candy store. Now our Bailey does have a back ground as a head chocolatier in New York, so she is hoping to do well in annual Amish Confectionery Competition.This book ends up having a dead Amish woman, a missing pot belly pig, and finding new relatives. We keep on our toes and of course Bailey is again involved in finding another body.A page turner for sure, and I was surprised at the ending, I didn’t guess the outcome of this one!I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review.