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.
3 comments:
Whoa this one sounds wild!
Denise
What a fun way to get this holiday started. Wow!
I really want to read it. It sounds interesting and fun to read. Thank you for the chance
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