An Amish sweets contest is interrupted when a bitter rivalry turns deadly in this cozy mystery by the Agatha Award-winning author of Criminally Cocoa. Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her grandparentsâ Amish candy shop. She wants to honor her grandfatherâs memory, but she may be biting off more than she can chew when she enters the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. Between cooking up lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Baileyâs search for a missing pot-bellied pig leads her to a dead body.
Josephine Weaver, an Amish candy maker who wanted Bailey disqualified for being an Englischer, died from a licorice allergy. Now Bailey finds herself topping the list of murder suspects, along with Josephineâs niece, a young woman going through her rumspringa. Now it falls to Bailey, whoâs sweet on the local sheriffâs deputy, to clear both their names and catch a killer with a cast-iron stomach for cold-blooded murderâŚ
An Amish sweets contest is interrupted when a bitter rivalry turns deadly in this cozy mystery by the Agatha Award-winning author of Criminally Cocoa. Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her grandparentsâ Amish candy shop. She wants to honor her grandfatherâs memory, but she may be biting off more than she can chew when she enters the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. Between cooking up lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Baileyâs search for a missing pot-bellied pig leads her to a dead body.
Josephine Weaver, an Amish candy maker who wanted Bailey disqualified for being an Englischer, died from a licorice allergy. Now Bailey finds herself topping the list of murder suspects, along with Josephineâs niece, a young woman going through her rumspringa. Now it falls to Bailey, whoâs sweet on the local sheriffâs deputy, to clear both their names and catch a killer with a cast-iron stomach for cold-blooded murderâŚ