Toxic Toffee
Bailey King’s in New York wrapping up a six-week shoot on her first cable TV show, Bailey’s Amish Sweets, when she gets a call from her Ohio town’s resident busybody. With Easter around the corner, Bailey’s been recruited to create a giant toffee bunny for the weeklong springtime festival that will also feature live white rabbits. But back home in Harvest, death becomes the main attraction when Stephen Raber keels over from an apparent heart attack, with Bailey and Raber’s pet bunny as witnesses.
Except it wasn’t Raber’s heart that suddenly gave out, a lethal dose of lily of the valley was mixed into a tasty piece of toffee. Who’d want to poison a jovial rabbit farmer who reminded Bailey of an Amish Santa Claus? To solve the murder, she and her sheriff deputy boyfriend Aiden must uncover a twenty-year-old secret. She’ll need to pull a rabbit out of a hat to keep a healthy distance from toxic people, including one venomous killer
Series: An Amish Candy Shop Mystery – Book #4
Author: Amanda Flower
Genre: Cozy Mystery/ Culinary
Publisher: Kensington Books
Page Count: 512
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Toxic Toffee, published by Kensington Books, written by Amanda Flower, is the fourth book in the cozy “An Amish Candy Shop Mystery” series and may be the best one yet.
Bailey is working on her new TV show, but when they wrap up the final scene, she is happy to be going home to her grandmother and her friends. New York no longer holds her heart. When a member of the community is killed and drops dead while she is standing nearby, she can’t help but get involved and figure out what happened and why. Who would want to murder what appears to be a sweet, loving, kind Amish man? It doesn’t take long for Bailey to find herself in the thick of things, doing whatever she can to help catch the killer and keep her grandmother safe. Along the way, she ends up with the dead man’s pet rabbit and finds herself falling for the little ball of fur, and so does Nutmeg.
The writing in Toxic Toffee is flawless. The plot is twisted just enough to keep readers guessing until the end, the pace and plot are easy to follow. I caution readers that this is a long cozy book. The reader will need to dedicate more than a few hours to finish from the first page to the last. Plan for a late-night if you want to complete this book in one sitting. However, it is worth every minute.
Favorite characters such as Cass, Bailey’s best friend, Charlotte, her cousin, Aiden, her deputy boyfriend, and Juliet, Aiden’s mother, are all back to delight readers. The setting in this cozy has the feel of a real small midwestern town, with old buildings, resident-centric life, small-town gossip, and politics. It is detailed enough to make the reader want to visit or even move to this little taste of heaven. Readers will be thrilled with the outcome and will be on the edge of their seat until the killer is revealed.
Cozy fans will love the small Amish candy shop that Bailey owns and runs with her grandmother in the small town of Harvest, Ohio, and will love this cozy and this series.
Readers of this cozy may also enjoy Dorothy St. James’ http://www.dorothystjames.com/ “A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery” https://www.thecozyreview.com/asking-for-truffle/ or Gail Oust’s http://www.gailoust.com/ “A Spice Shop Mystery” https://www.thecozyreview.com/ginger-snapped/ series.
About the Author:
Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over twenty-five cozy mystery novels, 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.
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