I have always like an Amanda Flower book and this one has given me a lot of enjoyment. The antics of the animals bring smiles and laughter to the tale. Bailey King and Charlotte have returned to Harvest after completing a six-week stay in NYC filming Bailey's cooking show. They arrived to find the greens full of rabbits. Enter Puff, a special rabbit. We now have goats, Jethro, a mischievous pig and Midnight, and orange tabby Bailey and Margot are talking to Puff's owner who collapses and dies in front of them. Margot wants Bailey to build a six-foot toffee rabbit for the Easter Days. Bailey is now living in a house and she ends up with Puff. There are twists and turns as the story moves along. There are a couple of romances that advance. The motive completely caught me by surprise. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AND SERIES.
Candy recipes are included.

Disclosure: Thanks to Kensington Books for a copy through NetGalley. The opinions expressed are my own.

I received a free copy of TOXIC TOFFEE (Book 4 of the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries) by Amanda Flower in exchange for an honest review. Bailey King returns home to Harvest, Ohio, in time to help run her grandmother’s sweet shop during the Easter rush. The very afternoon Bailey arrives, an Amish man drops dead at her feet. What a welcome home! Though it initially appears to be simply a heart attack, the death is soon determined to be a homicide. Because the Amish distrust the local law enforcement, Bailey assists her sheriff deputy boyfriend in the investigation. While already busy sussing out a poisoner and helping run the sweet shop, Bailey must foster a pampered live bunny for the victim’s family, craft a giant candy rabbit for the Easter festivities, adjust to nosy neighbors at her new house, and find time to have a first date with her boyfriend.

I enjoyed this book and really like the entire series, so far. I recommend both this book and the series. Though danger is pervasive, there are also bright spots of humor.

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Oh, how I love Amanda Flower books. This is the fourth (four and a half if you include Criminally Cocoa which is immediately before this book) in the Amish Candy Shop series. In it, we find Bailey King just back from a TV show shoot in New York, just in time for Easter in Harvest. Unfortunately, shortly after Bailey's return, a beloved Amish man dies in front of her. No wonder Bailey has a reputation for death following her! Of course Bailey must get involved, much to the chagrin of her sheriff deputy boyfriend, Aiden.


I pretty much love every book Amanda Flower puts out, and this was no exception. I thoroughly enjoy coming back to Harvest and learning what its residents have been up to, English and Amish alike. The mystery had twists that weren't shocking, necessarily, but not obvious, either. The book ends at a point where the series COULD, but I certainly hope this is not the last we hear of the candy shop. However, in it, we meet an Amish matchmaker who Ms. Flowers' newest book will be about. All in all a wonderful book and a fantastic addition to the Candy Shop series. I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher.

I loved it! Amanda's books alway's pull's me in to the stories!
Because they are alway's so well written.
I never guess who did it!
it had good plots/ loved the character's and the cover/title.

Wonderful series featuring "English" and Amish living and interacting together in a small town. This fun addition is a great addition. I love seeing Bailey's journey. Filled with fun, colorful characters and a well written plot that draws you in time and time again. Look forward to more for the series and the author.

This review will be posted on my blog, Foxes and Fairy Tales, on 16 June 2019

When I requested Toxic Toffee I hadn't actually read any of the other books in the series, but it'd been on my TBR for a while. Seeing the ARC reminded me that I'd been interested, so I decided to try out the first one whether I got approved or not. I read all three previous books in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series in the two days it took for my ARC request to be approved and started Toxic Toffee as soon as I received it.

The whole Amish Candy Shop Mystery series has sky-rocketed into my ultimate top cozies list.

I adore the little town of Harvest where the series is set! I was a little worried when Toxic Toffee opened with Bailey on a trip to NYC, but we were quickly back home in time for the mystery to unravel. All the characters in this series are marvellous and fun even the relatively minor ones: Juliet and her polka-dot pig Jethro are always fun and, in this particular book, we get to see a more sympathetic side to both town busybodies: Margot and Ruth.

Aside from the location (beautiful), the characters (relatable) and the mystery (compelling), I really love how unique these books are. I've never read anything about the Amish community before (as a Brit, it's not something I'm even too aware of) but I thought Flower did a wonderful job. Obviously, the series is fiction, so I'm not taking anything as fact, but I love that she presents such a natural and honest feeling view of Harvest: there's good and bad to the community rules and to the individuals on both sides of the Amish/English fence. Everyone feels like a well-rounded character (even the ones that fill typical cozy mystery stereotypes).

I've loved catching up with this series and I found Toxic Toffee just as delightful as the previous three. I absolutely can't wait for the fifth book to come out (there had better be one), and I'm sure I'll read more of Flower's other books in the meantime. This is a cozy series I hope runs for many books to come.

Toxic Toffee is another fun addition to the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series. I have enjoyed all of the books and there is a great mystery to solve during Easter week in this book. It is Spring Break and lots of families head to Harvest, Ohio, for an enjoyable time at Easter Days. Chocolatier Bailey King and her cousin, Charlotte, have returned from filming a cooking show for a cable food network in New York City to find out that local event organizer, Margot, has an idea for Bailey to create a large toffee bunny for the town square and center of the events.
Bailey has a tendency to get involved with trouble, usually in the form of a murder. Her boyfriend, Deputy Aiden Brody tries to rein her in but usually unsuccessfully. Stephen Raber, rabbit farmer drops dead in front of Bailey and Margot on the town square and the sheriff department finds that he was murdered. The Amish don't like getting involved with the police so Stephen's son Eil wants Bailey to find his father's killer. Aiden is very unhappy that Eli didn't go to the police for help but finally agrees to let Bailey help when Eli refuses to talk to the police. But things get dangerous and dicey for Bailey as she does her investigation between working on the candy bunny.
These books are a lot of fun to read with the quirky and colorful characters, including a pig owned by Juliet, Aiden's mother, and other others. There are always yummy sounding candy recipes and I am happy to see that another book is in the future.
I received a complimentary ARC from Kensington Books through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions expressed are mine only.

A charming cozy mystery giving us a glimpse of what life is like in an Amish village along with a puzzling plot and a return of some favorite characters. It's Easter time Bailey King and her cousin Charlotte have returned to Heavenly, Ohio after spending six weeks in New York filming Bailey's new tv show "Bailey's Amish Sweets". No sooner does she arrive than she is called to the town square where she meets Amish rabbit farmer Stephen Raber and is roped into making a 6 foot Easter bunny by town promoter Margot. While they are standing in the square Stephen falls down and dies, which most people think is the result of a heart attack. Meanwhile Bailey is called by Juliet Brody, the mother of her boyfriend the deputy sheriff Aiden, to report that there was a break in at the church where someone who broke in used the church kitchen to make toffee. Bailey somehow feels the two incidents are involved and is proven right when it turns out that Stephen was poisoned with toffee candy. Stephen's son, Eli, comes to Bailey and asks her to investigate his father's death, since she has solved crimes for his Amish friends and the Amish do not trust the police. He also brings her threatening letters his father has received. And although Aiden, who is the officer investigating the crime, is not happy to see Bailey once again involved, he realizes that he needs her help to delve into the Amish community and acknowledges her help. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and, as an extra bonus, learned a lot about a different way of life.

Another hit from Amanda Flower! Visiting with Bailey, Aiden and family is like being given a warm hug. The sheer love of her family , blood related or not, radiates off the page. Puff the bunny ( not the dragon) is a wonderful addition to the crew, and Jethro the pig is as entertaining as always.! Amanda Flower’s writing is so effortless to read and I never want to put her books down. I highly recommend this awesome book.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Kindle Copy for Review from NetGalley and Kensington Books.

I received a free, advance copy of this book and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

An Amish cozy centered on a candy store where even Amish are not immune to murder. Our heroine is called upon to create a giant toffee bunny as Easter festivities approaches surrounded with live white bunnies. But things are thrown a twist when someone appears to die from a heart attack.

Turns out a lethal dose of lily of the valley was added to a piece of toffee. Who knew toffee could be a killer? It will be up to Bailey and her sheriff boyfriend to find the killer before they end up in a sticky situation.

A delicious cozy read with a yummy toffee recipe included.

Bailey King returns home to Harvest from New York City just in time for Easter week and the rabbits are ruling the town. From the colony of rabbits on the town green to the gigantic rabbit Margot wants Bailey to make out of toffee, the bunnies are front and center. As Margot introduces Bailey to Stephen Raber, the rabbit farmer supplying the live bunnies, he drops dead right in front of them.

Soon her policemen beau, Aiden Brody, confirms that it wasn’t a heart attack, but that the Amish man was poisoned. The man’s son asks Bailey to help him find out who killed his father, because he was receiving threatening notes for a few weeks prior. Bailey is the only one the Amish will speak to and she’s more than happy to team up with Aiden to help solve the murder.

Along the way Bailey finds herself adopting a rabbit and making some new friends, including Millie Fisher, the Amish matchmaker who is the main character in Amanda Flower’s newest series, An Amish Matchmaker, set to debut later this year.

Amanda Flower has a true talent for writing and has several series that are on my must read list as new books are released. If you haven’t read one of her books yet, don’t wait. These are some of the coziest cozies you will find! Can’t wait for more from this author!

I love anything Amanda Flower writes. Her Amish series, this book included, is a wonderful look into rhe Amish world. It shows just how the same we can be when you remove all the differences. It shows as a society we can look past those differences and work together to make life great.

Her plot is well written with characters that are loveable. I cannot wait to read the next in the series.

TOXIC..TOFEE.....by Amanda..Flower
Stephan was busy with the preparation for the .Easter Days, being a bunny farmer, and now he has dropped dead. The created of a chocolate bunny with toffe, was also a disaster, having been outside.. The more she looks into the background of Stephen, there were secrets, an a confession he had left.
Another sweet story and mystery to figure out. Looking for the next in this series. Given ARC by Net Galley and Kensington for my voluntary review and my honest opinion.

Toxic Toffee is the four installment in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series.

The story starts off with Bailey and her assistant Charlotte in Manhattan shooting six episodes for the candy maker television show - Bailey’s Amish Sweets - that would appear on Gourmet Television during the summer season.

While in New York she receives a call from Margot, the Village of Harvest instigator who wants to talk about a rabbit. As she returns home to Ohio and Swissmen Sweets her grandmother warns her Margot has a grand scheme which includes Bailey carving a giant chocolate rabbit which she hopes will put her town on the map.

Mix in a mold a rabbit out of toffee, a murder and you have a great cozy mystery. By the way, this book provides a recipe for Charlotte’s Toffee Pieces - can’t wait to try it out.

The fifth installment To Match A Killer is coming soon - not soon enough!!​ Keep them coming, love these Amish Candy Shop mysteries.

I was provided this book for free in exchange for my honest opinion.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for anyone who loves a good mystery. 📕👍🏼

I GIVE IT A 5 STAR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️