Candy Cane Crime book review

 

Candy Cane Crime

                          by Amanda Flower

Book Description:

A candy-striped caper . . .

Christmas is coming all too quickly for Harvest, Ohio’s famous chocolatier, Bailey King. Thanks to her new cable TV show, her shop has more candy orders than she can handle this holiday season. Fortunately, her beloved Cousin Charlotte is happy to take the Candy Cane Exchange off Bailey’s to-do list. After all, Charlotte has come to Harvest from her conservative home district to find her future outside of her family’s influence. What better way than by taking on the Englisch task of pairing the sweet notes everyone is exchanging with a peppermint treat, just in time for Christmas Eve delivery? But when Charlotte discovers some of those delicious missives are for her, suddenly she’s staking out the festive postbox, hoping to catch her secret admirer in his intriguing tracks . . .

When Charlotte sees something underhanded going on beneath the merrymaking, she enlists the help of Sheriff Deputy Luke Little to find out if her unknown correspondent is none other than the town’s biggest suspect. And the surprising truth about her suitor’s identity has her contemplating leaving her Amish roots behind forever . . .

MY BOOK REVIEW: 

5 Stars: 5/5 Star Rating

What a sweet little Christmas mystery/romance !  This one will leave you smiling and laughing.  This is definitely a "feel good" Christmas read.   But it's fun to read at anytime of year.  I love reading Christmas books.  This one brings us back to some familiar beloved characters but Bailey is usually the one to solve the crimes and this time, it's sweet Charlotte who works at the sweet shop who is searching for the answer to the "candy cane crime".  While this is part of a series, it could easily be read as a standalone.

I received a digital ARC of this book from netgalley and the publishers, Kensington Books. All opinions expressed are my own.

About the Author:

Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, 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 in Northeast Ohio.