I really enjoyed this book! Amanda has such a great way of writing! The story is engaging and interesting! The characters are fabulous! The ending was a complete surprise! A definite must read!! ( )

Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous by Amanda Flower is a fun cozy mystery. I laughed often while reading the fourth An Amish Matchmaker Mystery. Millie and Lois have a new case. Gerome Moorhead, Lois’ most recent ex-husband, is in Harvest, Ohio on his honeymoon to the newest Mrs. Moorhead (aka Honeybee). When Honeybee gets clocked by an oversized cuckoo, Lois rises to the top of the suspect list. Millie aka the Amish Marple is on the case. Of course, Lois is not about to be left behind. Can the duo uncover the killer before Lois gets carted off to the hoosegow? Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous is a delight to read. I like Amanda Flower’s writing style. It is relaxed and engaging. I quickly found myself drawn into the story. I was quickly flipping the pages to find out what happened next. I love a book that makes me laugh. There are great characters in this series. They are fun and quirky. Millie has her goats who seem to understand her. She has added a cat to the household. Lois is a hoot. She is the opposite of Millie. Lois likes busy patterns and loud colors. She carries a purse that reminds me of Mary Poppins satchel. You never know what Lois will pull out of her purse (there is at least one rubber mallet in there—you never know when you are going to need one--and let us not forget the staple gun). Margot Rawlings is the village’s community organizer. This is one woman that you wish to avoid, or you will find yourself “volunteered” to help with an event. Let us not forget Juliet Brook, the pastor’s wife, and her pet pig, Jethro. Juliet plans to make Jethro a Hollywood star. The whodunit was entertaining. Lois and Millie manage to get into a scrape or two (thanks to Lois). Millie asks questions and searches for clues. I like how the whodunit involved both the Amish and the English communities. The mystery delved into an issue that is prevalent in our country. No sect is immune as we see in this story. My only complaint is that the mystery was easy to solve. I easily picked out the guilty party early in the story. The antics of Millie’s goats had me laughing out loud. The author gave the goats great personalities. Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous can be read as a standalone, but you are missing out by not reading all the books in this delightful series. There is a preview of Blueberry Blunder at the end which is the eighth An Amish Candy Shop Mystery. Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous is a witty whodunit with a polka dotted pig, a clobbered bride, a bulging bag, rampageous goats, a caring community, and the Amish Marple. ( )

Though she is Amish, Millie’s best friend is Lois, who most assuredly is not Amish. They respect each other, and more importantly, look out for each other. They happen to run into Lois’s ex-husband who is honeymooning in their small town. But it turns out to be a very short honeymoon when his bride meets with an unfortunate and bizarre accident. The husband is a person of interest in her death, and so is Lois, to a lesser degree. Millie and Lois again join forces to find out who staged the accident that caused the bride’s death. This leads them to a more unsavory side of life that affects both the English community as well as the Amish one: illegal drug use. It’s quite an interesting plot, with a serious storyline interspersed with a bit of humor, the humor being providing by two goats and a pig. You can always depend on Amanda Flower to give her readers a well written story with great characters, and this book is no exception. It’s highly entertaining while addressing important social issues. ( )

Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous is the fourth book in the An Amish Matchmaker Mystery series by Amanda Flower.

This series has the most enjoyable and exciting duo that I have read. Millie Fisher is an Amish matchmaker, and Lois Henry is Englisch and has divorced four times. Lois works at her grandaughter’s Sunbeam Cafe.

Millie and Lois enter the Sunbeam Cafe, and Lois is shocked to see her fourth ex-husband, Rocksino Guy, at the cash register. Lois soon learns he is in Harvest with his young wife, Paige, whom he married just days ago. The next morning, Lois wants to apologize for her rude behavior and head for the motel where the couple is staying. The German theme motel has an enormous cuckoo clock, and as it starts to ring the hour, the cuckoo breaks off and falls, killing Paige. The local police have ruled the death an accident, but Lois and Millie don’t think it was an accident. They begin their investigation by sneaking into the cuckoo clock and soon find that the cable that operated was attached to the cuckoo had been deliberately cut partially through so that the cable would snap when the cuckoo began announcing the hour. With this information, Millie and Lois can convince the police that Paige's death was murder.

A book subplot deals with the increased use of illegal drugs by Amish and Englisch teens and young adults. The recent death of a young Amish man. Reverand Brook, pastor of the church on the town square, has started a drug counseling program open to everyone youth in Harvest. The author skillfully intertwines the drug trafficking problem into the murder investigation.

I found the book well-written, plotted, and a quick read. The characters are wonderfully developed and extremely enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed the banter between Lois and Millie. There were enough twists and turns that I was kept guessing until the final reveal of the killer.

I’m anxiously awaiting the book to see what Millie and Lois might get involved in. ( )

Amish, Amish-community, cozy-mystery, drug-counseling, drugs-issues, family, friendship, goats, law-enforcement, mini-pig, murder, murder-investigation, Ohio, read, relationships, rural, situational-humor, sly-humor, small-town, verbal-humor*****

Widowed Amish matchmaker Millie Fisher (AKA Amish Marple) has moved back to her home county in Ohio after caring for her sister in Michigan. Now that they are 68, Millie and her non-Amish friend from childhood, Lois, are still great friends despite their differing lifestyles Lois works well with Millie in investigating. But not all the way to Cleveland.
This installment into a rather humorous cozy series brings in a sad note of reality in the form of drug abuse issues in the community, county, state, and more. From the sadness of one of the Amish youth dying of overdose to the clandestine ways in which innocent people can be duped into transportation. But it all starts with murder by cuckoo clock. Well done!
Mostly it's a good cozy mystery, but the hilarious incidents creep up now and again to make you laugh your sox off. Loved it and it really can stand alone.
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Kensington Books via NetGalley. Thank you! ( )