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Book Review: When the coffee shop manager is murdered in Middlebury's Amish Artisan Village, two women from different walks of life must join forces to solve the mystery.
Spring has arrived in Middlebury, Indiana, and Amber Wright is optimistic about the growing profit from her collection of Amish shops--until she receives a call that Ethan Gray is dead. Hurrying over to A Simple Blend, she finds a solitary hole in the front window and the store manager lying next to the espresso machine, dead from an apparent heart attack. All the money is still in his register.
When Amber hires a young Amish woman, Hannah Troyer, to take over the shop's duties, the two women become fast friends--as well as amateur sleuths. The police believe Gray's death is a by-product of vandalism, but Amber and Hannah aren't convinced.
Clues that don't add up, a neighbor who is pulled into the midst of the investigation, a town with secrets to hide, and a blossoming romance--all will combine to push Amber and Hannah into unfamiliar roles in order to reveal answers to the mysteries around them.
My Review: Intrigue, Romance, Murder....this book has it! Just spotting the front cover of the book made me went to curl up with my own cup of coffee and dive in! Amber Wright is owner of a village filled to the rim with everything Amish; Quilt shop, homemade coffee, bakery, etc...a fine idea indeed. Yet when she receives a phone call that something has happened at the Amish coffee house and finds Ethan dead next to the register, the idea has turned horrid! As time goes by, other strange things begin happening on the property and within other shops. Was someone against the idea of the Amish Artisan Village? Amber moves Hannah from the quilt shop to the coffee shop in hopes of returning the business back to its original splendor, but dealing with nasty delivery men and others could scare her from the establishment and back to the quilt shop where all is quiet. Once the funeral comes about, there are many strange reactions by some within Ethan's family....his wife, sister, friends...were any of them tied into this or was it just a bunch of unruly teenagers up for a good laugh? While trying to make her way through the mystery, Amber befriends a man who lives on the other end of the property and sparks begin to fly. Hannah and Amber also become friends while trying to decipher what could be happening to cause all of the commotion in the village. Will everything become seen once the the coffee steam clears?
