Marriage Can Be Mischief

Millie is happy that her childhood friend, Uriah Schrock, has returned to Harvest after decades away. He was sweet on Millie in their school days, but she only had eyes for her future husband. Now, there’s a new spark between them, so Millie is concerned when Uriah doesn’t show up at the Harvest concert series or for his job as the Village square’s groundskeeper. Perhaps Millie has been involved in too many murder investigations, but she has a sinking feeling. And when she and her best friend, Lois, find Uriah with the police, it seems she’s right.

A film crew is in Harvest to make a movie about a forty-year-old unsolved murder. A skeleton has been found at the bottom of a ravine, and Uriah is certain it’s his sister, Galilee. Right before Uriah left Ohio, she disappeared, and her harsh husband, Samuel, was found fatally stabbed with a knitting needle. The sheriff declared that Galilee killed him and ran away. Uriah never believed the theory, and he’s come back to Harvest hoping, Gott willing, Millie will help him stitch together the truth.

The Details
Series: An Amish Matchmaker Mystery – Book #3
Author: Amanda Flower
Genre/Category: Cozy – Hobbies/Older Sleuth
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496724054
Page Count: 320
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The Review
Is there any way for readers not to like Millie? I doubt it, and the newest addition to the “An Amish Matchmaker Mystery” series, Marriage Can Be Mischief won’t change that either. Millie and Lois are at it again. They are tracking down a killer and getting into trouble. Matchmaking, quilt making, and goat herding just don’t keep Millie busy enough. She always has to jump in when a friend needs help, which sometimes leads her down the path of danger.

When Millie’s old friend Uriah comes back to town, she tries to avoid him at first. Uriah was the next thing she had to a boyfriend when she was young, but her late husband stole her heart, and she never looked back. With Uriah in town and his sister, Galilee, still missing after 40-years and still accused of murdering her husband, it doesn’t take long for matchmaking and quilting to take a back seat to everything else. Especially when bones are found in a ravine that everyone is certain belongs to Uriah’s sister.

It is soon discovered that Galilee died the same night her husband was murdered. The question is, did Galilee kill him and fall into the ravine where she died, or did someone kill her and bury her in that ravine? Millie risks everything to help her friend discover the truth. Lois jumps in to help, and between the old matchmaker and her friend, they track down suspects, find evidence and stitch together an ending most readers won’t see coming.

Marriage Can Be Mischief, like all the books in this series, is a heartwarming story of friendship, love, and goat chaos. Millie, the matchmaker, is lovable beyond belief. Lois is everything you would want in a friend that is nothing like you. The mystery is always intriguing, believable, and fun to solve, and the goats are always causing issues and enjoying every minute of the mess. Motives, clues, and even a few red herrings are threaded into this story as easily as they are in the quilts Millie creates. Readers will thrill at Millie and Lois’ newest investigation and will turn the last page with a sparkle in their eyes and a smile on their faces.

The Author
Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over twenty-five cozy mystery novels. She started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth-grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words. In addition to being an author, Amanda is a former librarian with fifteen years of experience in Northeast Ohio.