When delicious baked goods become lethal, a trail of poetry leads to a sweet-toothed killer.
Don’t taste it / Don’t share it /Just throw it away / If you try my bakery pie / You won’t live to see another day.
The Amish Artisan Village of Middlebury, Indiana, might be the last place you would ever expect to find a murderer. But Amber has been managing the Village for decades and there’s nothing … the Village for decades and there’s nothing she hasn’t seen. Or so she thought.
When poetic notes begin appearing around the bakery, warning that some of the pies have been poisoned, Amber is as confused as she is concerned. Who poisons pies? And more to the point, who leaves poems of warning after they’ve done it? When Amber decides to help the police track down the sweet-toothed saboteur, she enlists Hannah Troyer for another round of Amish-style detective work.
Can Amber and Hannah help the police before the Poison Poet strikes? Both women will need to draw on their faith to preserve the peaceful community they’ve built in Middlebury . . . and to protect the girls who work in the Amish Artisan Village.
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Vannetta Chapman’s mystery books are page turners. I can’t stop reading them and I loved this series a lot.
So, the other day I finished this book about sometime after I should have been to sleep. Hold onto that while I take you on a detour that totally makes sense to me. As a rule I do not ever remember my dreams. However, here lately I’ve been having some very vivid dreams that carry over to my waking hours. That’s a thing that kinda weirds me out. So, anyway I finished this book too close to after bedtime and characters and dialogue wove its way into my dreams. The next night I came home from work and found myself to tired (spell that l-a-z-y) to write the review. So this morning I had to pack the computer and pray that sketchy internet at the Old Folks Home would cooperate. It’s been touch and go but toes are crossed (pa-leese you know toes count for more as they are harder to cross than fingers!).
All things being equal just remember pie. Crusty, fruity, sweet, poisonous (?!?) pie. Oh and tacky poetry. Those two things totally go together, just so you know. I mean there is other stuffs and things but questionable poetry and potentially poisoned pies. I feel like I am participating in a bad alliteration experiment. Just putting that out there. I have to almost think about apologizing. I’m not feeling very serious about this review. I think because pie. That and we are saying goodbye to Amber and Hannah and the rest of the gang from the Amish Village. We’ve survived poisons, snakes, crossbows and preppers. And now poison pie and poor poetry. We have watched Hannah mature and grow into herself, her relationship, and her faith. We have watch Amber find love and find balance. We have watched Preston find himself, find a home, and find love. We have come through so much together and I feel like these are my people.
All that gushy emotional out of the way I have one little complaint. What in all the tomatoes in all the gardens is the deal with a persons body type and/or weight being so very important to their descriptions? It’s been peppered (and I don’t even do pepper) throughout this entire series. I mean Pam is probably the worst offender of the bunch as she is not one and done. For the love of gravy, well perhaps that’s the problem. . . I get that she embraces being not a small woman but it felt like their was a need to validate her worth in her size. It was a little much. That’s it. That’s all I got. Well I mean we could talk about poor poetry but it’s better than anything I could have thrown at you. And for all the nefarious intent it was sorta tease-y too. The truth is I don’t feel like I can take this book too seriously. These are my people. We have grown together, adventured together, and bonded over attempted murder and murder and murder plots and well let’s just say I’m not ready to let them go. I mean I will, because I have too. But I’m not ready. This was the perfect end to this series and in all seriousness all three books were amazing!
Enjoyed this series involving both Amish and Englischers.