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Amanda Flower is an award-winning author that writes mystery novels. Amanda was six years old when she decided that she wanted to write fiction. She wrote a story that she read out loud to her class.
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Order of Amish Candy Shop Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Assaulted Caramel | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Lethal Licorice | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Premeditated Peppermint | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Toxic Toffee | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Criminally Cocoa (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Marshmallow Malice | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Botched Butterscotch (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Candy Cane Crime (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Lemon Drop Dead | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Amish Candy Shop Holidays | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Peanut Butter Panic | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Blueberry Blunder | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Gingerbread Danger | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of Amish Candy Shop Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Assaulted Caramel | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Lethal Licorice | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Premeditated Peppermint | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Criminally Cocoa (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Toxic Toffee | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Marshmallow Malice | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Botched Butterscotch (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Candy Cane Crime (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Lemon Drop Dead | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Amish Candy Shop Holidays | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Peanut Butter Panic | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Blueberry Blunder | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Gingerbread Danger | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Amish Matchmaker Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Matchmaking Can Be Murder | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Courting Can Be Killer | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Marriage Can Be Mischief | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Dating Can Be Deadly | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries Series as Isabella Alan
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Plainly Murder (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Murder, Plain and Simple | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Murder, Simply Stitched | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Murder, Served Simply | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Murder, Plainly Read | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Murder, Handcrafted | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Andi Boggs Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Andi Unexpected | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Andi Under Pressure | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Andi Unstoppable | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Appleseed Creek Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | A Plain Death | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | A Plain Scandal | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Plain Disappearance | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Plain Malice | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Emily Dickinson Mystery Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
2 | I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
3 | I Died for Beauty | 2025 | Description / Buy |
Order of Farm To Table Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Farm to Trouble | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Put Out to Pasture | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
3 | In Farm's Way | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Crime and Cherry Pits | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of India Hayes Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Maid of Murder | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Murder in a Basket | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Katharine Wright Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | To Slip the Bonds of Earth | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Living History Museum Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Final Reveille | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Final Tap | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Final Vow | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Magical Bookshop Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Crime and Poetry | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Prose and Cons | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Murders and Metaphors | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Verse and Vengeance | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Crimes and Covers | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Magic Garden Mystery Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Flowers and Foul Play | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Death and Daisies | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Mums and Mayhem | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Piper and Porter Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dead-End Detective | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Frozen Detective | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Amanda Flower Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Amish Christmas at North Star: Four Stories of Love and Family | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Hotel California | 2022 | Description / Buy |
The story was so amusing that it made her teacher and classmates laugh. The experience showed the author that she had a knack for storytelling. It was at that moment that she made up her mind to pursue a career in publishing. However, her father did not agree with Amanda’s goals.
He was an electrical engineer and he wanted his daughter to target a more practical career, one that would guarantee a stable income. Because Amanda perceived her father as a wise man, she listened to his advice and became a librarian.
The career choice was perfect for the author because it allowed her to indulge her passion for books. She would work as a librarian during the day. And then at night, she would sit down to write mystery novels. Initially, Amanda wrote for fun. It wasn’t until she moved to Amish Country in Ohio to work as a librarian that she began writing seriously.
Her new home in Ohio was perfect because it was free from distractions. It forced the author to dedicate her time to her craft. She also took a lot of inspiration from the things she saw and the Amish people she spoke to. The people that have read her work know that her books feature Amish characters, traditions, and concepts.
The author can empathize with their attitudes to an extent because she is a Christian author. Amanda believes that her faith goes hand in hand with traditional mysteries because the genre allows her to tell stories with a clear sense of right and wrong. It also permits her to inject elements of justice and forgiveness into every plot she concocts.
While many traditional mystery authors prefer to explore the darker aspects of the mystery genre, Amanda Flower wants to use her novels to bring humor and comfort into the lives of her readers. This is the reason why her books always end on a positive note. Amanda always gives her characters a happy ending.
She doesn’t judge other Christian authors that prefer to write grimy mysteries filled with morally questionable heroes. But Amanda cannot bring herself to craft such stories. As far as she is concerned, there is plenty of pain in the world. She doesn’t gain anything by adding to it.
Even though she always assigns time to her work as a lIbrarian, writing is a full-time job for Amanda. She will happily write into the late hours of the night to get her stories on paper.
The author enjoys the revision process because she is such a fast writer. Once she starts writing her first draft, she doesn’t stop until it is complete, which is why Amanda’s first drafts are always disastrous. The editing process allows her to give her stories more thought and to fine-tune her characters.
Amanda Flower Awards
Amanda Flower won the Agatha Award in 2015.
Best Amanda Flower Books
The author loves nature. She enjoys being outside. Amanda’s best novels include:
Crime and Poetry: Violet left Chicago because her grandmother was sick, or so she assumed. When Violet reached her bedside, she was surprised to find that Grandmother Daisy was perfectly healthy. She had tricked her granddaughter because she wanted Violet to work in her magical store.
Violet had no intention of sticking around. She was about to head back to the city when Benedict Raisin died. When they found him, the dead man had a copy of poem’s from Daisy’s store. The fact that Raisin had just added Daisy to his will meant that Violet’s grandmother was the prime suspect.
Prose and Cons: Daisy was determined to take advantage of the tourists the Food and Wine Festival would attract by giving a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s work. Violet was called upon to help. She was supposed to work with the local writing group. But when one of their members died shortly before the event began, Violet realized that Poe’s work was the key to solving the murder.
Violet went to work, joining forces with a cat and the shop’s crow to find the killer in their midst.
When Does The Next Amanda Flower book come out?
The next book by Amanda Flower is I Died for Beauty and will be released on February, 25th 2025. It is the newest book in the Emily Dickinson Mystery Series.