Monday, February 28, 2022

Matchmaking Can Be Murder

Matchmaking Can Be Murder is the first book in the Amish Matchmaker series by Amanda Flower.   It is a great pairing with the candy shop series because Millie provides an Amish perspective and voice to the same town and people that Bailey interacts with in that series.   Bailey is an Englischer living in an Amish community.  Both ladies find themselves caught up in murders they did not mean to get involved in but end up assisting friends/family.   Looking forward to reading more of this series.   


Matchmaking Can Be Murder

Matchmaking Can Be Murder by Amanda Flower
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was a wonderful complement to the Amish candy shop series. This one has an MC who is Amish so it gives it a different feel and perspective. Millie’s speech and actions are carefully thought out unlike many protagonists in cozy mysteries who tend to be impulsive. The side kick Lois is a wonderful source of levity. She also serves as the ability to explain Amish tradition to the reader since she is Englisch. The two ladies remind me of Thelma and Louise or Lucy and Ethel. Their personalities work well together. The story itself is well written and thoughtfully constructed and although I had some suspicions about the guilty party I wasn’t 100% sure until the reveal. I look forward to reading more about Harvest, OH in this series and the Amish Candy series. It is enjoyable to read overlapping characters in discrete storylines

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Challenge Prompts

The Challenge Prompts I will use this for are:  


  1. Library Love  #LibraryLoveChallenge  Book #13  
  2. Color Coded Green
  3. What an Animal Book #8
  4. Virtual Mount TBR #VirtualMountTBR2022   Book #15
  5. Back List Reader  #Backlistreader  Book #8
  6. Cozy Mysteries   Bonus  #3 5 cozies each with a cover or spine representing one of the colors of the Olympic rings  Green
  7. Cruisin thru Cozies  Free choice #5
  8. Cloak & Dagger  #CloakDaggerChal  Book #16
  9. Craving for Cozies  Book #16
  10. Around the Year in 52 Books #3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
  11. BooklistQueen  #booklistqueenreadingchallenge2022  #7. About a Difficult Choice
  12. Bookworm #29 Read a book that's been on your TBR for over a year
  13. Nancy Drew #6. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1931) - OR read a book where the mc has a garden
  14. Nerd Daily  #NERDREADING2022 #35 in your tbr pile
  15. Nerdy Bookworm  #NerdyBookwormChallengeXO #40 Read a romance with a single parent in it
  16. OWLS 22  #38 Greenhouses: A book with a green cover
  17. PopSugar #popsugarreadingchallenge #42. A book that features two languages
  18. Pick your Poison #8 he said she said book
  19. Medical Examiner Challenge  1 Toe Tags
  20. Beachcomber Challenge  
    • Crime Scene- greenhouse
    • Weapon- wrench
  21. Six Shooter Challenge  Target #6  Shot #6
  22. 52 books in 52 weeks  #15 Spiritual
  23. Unruly Reader Bingo  #13 free choice



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