Matchmaking can be murder
When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away--the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not right for such a gentle young woman--except Edith herself. Pleased when she convinces the bride-to-be to leave her betrothed before the wedding, Millie is later panicked to find Zeke in Edith's greenhouse--as dead as a tulip in the middle of winter. To keep her niece out of prison--and to protect her own reputation--Millie will have to piece together a patchwork of clues to find a killer, before she becomes the next name on his list.
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Amish > Fiction. Quiltmakers > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Ohio > Fiction. |
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Christian fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781496724014
- Physical Description 326 pages ; 17 cm.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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Matchmaking Can Be Murder
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An Amish sleuth goes all out to save her niece from a murder charge.After many years away caring for an ailing sister, widowed, childless Millie Fisher has returned to Harvest, Ohio. She lives in a small house outside town with her two mischievous Boer goats, Phillip and Peter, who do a bang-up job of keeping her property weed-free. Millie, who has an uncanny ability to tell when two people are right for each other, is deeply concerned that her beloved niece Edith Hochstetler, a widow, is about to marry Zeke Miller, who's emphatically not right for her. Edith's been wonderfully successful in running Edy's Greenhouse, her late father's business, but now something seems to be going wrong. After she admits to Millie that she doesn't love Zeke, her decision to call off the wedding has dire consequences. While visiting a new "Englisch" cafe in Harvest, Millie runs into her childhood friend Lois Kenny, married four times and grandmother of cafe owner Darcy Woodin. In addition, Millie sees that her nephew, Edith's twin brother, Enoch Lapp, has returned to Harvest. Enoch, who left to become Englisch, blames Millie for some of the problems he had as a youth. When Zeke's found beaten to death at the Greenhouse, Millie and her goats chase away a hidden man. Seeing Edith become a suspect, Millie resolves to clear her. Luckily, one of the investigators is Deputy Aiden Brody, whom Millie's met before (Assaulted Caramel, 2017) and who's familiar with Amish ways. When they learn that Zeke was romancing both Edith and Darcy, Millie and Lois team up on a wild adventure that uses their local knowledge to help pin down a dangerous killer.A sentimental view of Amish life complete with two charming goats makes for easy reading. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.