11/21/2023 0 Comments Amanda flower magical garden mysteriesAs I progress in coming weeks, I’ll share more details, as I read and journal and dream on. But it’s all so early that I won’t share too much just yet. In fact, I think I even have a decent title. I’ve been taking notes, dreaming of small towns, and creating characters. Something new and original but still entertaining. I’ve been inspired to see if I can write a fun cozy mystery about plants. Well, one more way would be to read a cozy mystery story about them. In that book, I’m encouraging my readers to find stress relief wherever they can with plants. With the pending publication of Leaf Your Troubles Behind, it seemed like a natural fit. I realized that that warm way of destressing was something I wanted to share with people via my own writerly life. So much so that I felt the spark to write my own. There was a lot to learn from them - and be inspired by. But many were very well written with vivid details and tight plots. I’d never read a lot of cozies before because I’d dismissed them as too silly or lightweight literary-wise. And I had fun dabbling into baking and food mysteries with Joanna Fluke and Mia Manansala. Peter Quinn made me laugh and yearn for my own dear black dog with his Chet and Bernie series. I explored gardening mysteries by authors Julia Henry, Marty Wingate, and Amanda Flower. I started with Agatha Christie and jumped to mysteries set in the Pacific Northwest with yoga stories by Tracy Weber and outdoor adventures by Ellie Alexander. Since there are so many cozy mysteries out there, I focused on books that were of my interest and taste. It was like I wrapped a blinding warm blanket around my psyche. I avoided threatening political and misleading health news. Instead of reading intense crime fiction, I read cozy mysteries. Instead of rewatching the epic Game of Thrones, my husband and I watched the goofy Shameless. So I began watching and reading lighter entertainment. It was a stressful, isolated time and I didn’t want to add to it by taking in content that strained my nervous system even more. Even the news was, and still is, scarier than usual. And extended family members caught covid. Some of my kids struggled with depression. I experienced enough illness and death in my own family. Animal lovers will love Huckleberry and Esmerelda.Īs usual, her cute mysteries leave me wanting more.During the pandemic, I found myself steering away from any dark or stressful content. I enjoyed all the characters in this new series. Readers love the Farm to Table Mysteries:Īmanda Flower is a master at writing mysteries and keeping the reader interested the whole time. USA Today bestselling Amanda Flower returns to the Farm to Table cozy mystery series with another exciting sleuthing adventure! But with Bellamy Farm still struggling, can Shiloh spare the time to look into the town's fishy characters? Or will her dream farm be the next thing floating belly up? She'll have to dig deep to find the truth, reel in a killer, and convince her city-slicker pug to wear his winter boots. Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends. Until one day, a servant arrived in the garden to see Amadeus smiling as if he was looking at a flower. At some point during the concert, someone broke into the garden and cut the centuries-old climbing rose - the source of the gardens magic - from the standing stone. Well, she could if the owner wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby. To make matters worse, Fiona learns that Duncreigan, the magical garden that she inherited from her godfather, is dying. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. After solving a murder and getting her organic farm ready to overwinter, Shiloh Bellamy still expects the next few months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses.
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