★ USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ★Delightful cozy mystery series!Speak With Confection is Book 4 in the Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery seriesJane Delight is looking for a fresh start, and believes her new home will dough the trick. But as a batter of fact, her mischievous cat, Mr. Crumbles, has found a body beneath the floorboards in the bread of night! Jane’s eccentric housemates, octogenarians …
Jane’s eccentric housemates, octogenarians Matilda and Eleanor, are all done and crusted with mayhem, but will stop at nothing to help Jane. Joining the trio is dishy detective Damon McCloud, who is determined to see that the murderer gets his just deserts before he can make a bake for it.
Jane’s not worried. She’s bone and bread for sleuthing. Can she speak with confection, or is her confidence misplaced?more
Speak With Confection: An Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery
By ruthhartzler
If you enjoy cozy mysteries that have a side of humor along with the usual murder than you will enjoy this book as much as I did. I love the sleuths team in this series. All women and once they start working to narrow down suspects and zero in on the real murderer nothing can stop them. We have Jane Delight along with the Birtwistle sisters Eleanor and Matilda as our sleuths. I love Mr Crumbles the cat. He’s always there when needed and he never fails to save the day.
This time the murderer strikes in the beginning of the book. Readers get almost the entire book to try to solve this mystery. I just couldn’t narrow it down this time, so I let the girls do what they do best and that would be identifying the real killer while I, the reader, perched on the edge of my seat flipping pages and chewing my nails, do what I do best and that is to read! And a word of warning! Do not let the age of the Birtwistle sisters fool you because these girls are good sleuths. Now when it’s all said and done our Mr. Crumbles jumps on ahead to save the day!
This story is about goats and breeders and show goats and goats that are not show goats But somehow a murderer lurks about behind the scenes when a well known and very successful goat owner is found dead at a goat show. Everyone is a suspect until the Whodunit is found. Who might that be?
I recommend this book to readers of Cozy Mysteries. This book is part of a series and it would be best to read the books in order so that you can follow the characters and story plot easier. This is book four and there are two more books to the series.
I purchased a copy from Amazon. A review wasn’t requested. All opinions expressed here are my own.
A new house, goats, crazy roommates with a mysterious past. What could go wrong. All Jane wants to do is enjoy her new home but she gets dragged to a goat show & ends up in the middle of another murder investigation. Will she figure it out? Will Mr Crumbles save the day again? Pick up a copy to find out. You will enjoy every minute of it. I look forward to the next book.
This time, Matilda and Eleanor are in trouble and just because they saw a lady about a goat. Damon (Jane’s detective) is taken off the case because of Jane. Jane has to help Matilda and Eleanor solve this one fast because the ladies don’t want their pasts dug up. Will be get to find out about that? Gigi, the goat, steals the show (goat show) but a nasty goat lady is killed too. We meet a new man who trains pets to protect their owners and Mr. Crumbles is a star pupil. (Of course!) What about Damon and Jane, hmm? Do you need a little Amish (with recipes by the way), humor, cozy mystery, romance, and/or murder? I recommend this series.
Speak With Confection, Book Four
Matilda and Eleanor have entered Gigi the Wild Goat in a goat show. While Gigi is busy making a meal of the Show Judge’s beard, someone discovers a dead body. The owner of the multiple times grand champion of the show has been murdered. Matilda and Eleanor seem to be Stirling’s only suspects; and Damon has been taken off the case!
Well of course Jane and the ladies have to investigate!
An entertaining tale as we spend a few hours in the company of Hartzler’s amusing characters. Unlikely scenarios abound as these intrepid sleuths concoct their suspect list based on motive and opportunity. The Amish Cupcake Mysteries never disappoint and volume four is no exception. A good fun read I enthusiastically recommend!
[Many thanks to the author for the opportunity to read a copy of this book. I was not required to write a review. This is my honest review, the opinions expressed herein are entirely my own. ]
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If you’ve ever read anything by this author you’ll know that sequence in series is somewhat irrelevant. The mystery is good, but it’s the fun that reels me in! The characters really are and the investigation is full of goats (not a typo). Of course I loved it!
This is the fourth book in this series and these ladies are laugh out loud entertaining. Jane and her 80 something year old housemates have finally moved into a house and they are off on another adventure. A goat competition!!! Eleanor and Matilda have decided to enter one of their wild rescue goats into a goat competition of otherwise pedigreed, champion goats and poor Jane goes along for the ride. Little did she know that a goat competition would involve murder and lies. So Jane and the ladies are off to solve this murder after Matilda and Eleanor are accused of murdering a woman they met for 5 seconds. A must read and addictive series!!!
Jane and her friends, the 80+ year old sisters have moved into Jane’s new house. And of course, in the backyard are the wild goats. Matilda and Eleanor decide to show the best behaved? goat in a goat show. Naturally turmoil ensues, but who would suspect there would be a murder. Since Matilda and Eleanor are prime suspects, Jane is on the job.
Another fun foray into solving murder in Amish country. Fun series.
Speak With Confection: An Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery by Ruth Hartzler is the fourth book in this awesome series. Even though it is the fourth book it can very well be read as a standalone, I do suggest you read the other three books you will not be disappointed. This book is very well written and has lovely characters. It definitely will make you laugh out loud. I think this series just keeps getting better and better. This book will keep you guessing right until the end with all the twists and turns. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Hartzler has in store for us next.
This is another fun book by Ms. Hartzler! Jane and the two quirky sisters move into the new house with the goats. When a woman is murdered at a goat event, the sisters are suspects. Jane has to investigate much to Damon’s chagrin. I didn’t realize who the murderer was until the end which is odd for me. I’m looking forward to the next book because of the ending!