Farm to Trouble
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4.1 • 18 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower comes the first in a warm yet twisty cozy mystery series perfect for fans of small-town stories, resilient heroines, and amateur sleuths.
Welcome to Cherry Glen—where the gossip’s juicy, the veggies are organic, and murder’s always in season!
With a heart full of hope, Shiloh Bellamy trades her big-city hustle for the rolling fields of her Michigan hometown, dreaming of turning her family’s crumbling farm into a darling farm-to-table haven. Though when Shiloh’s only investor turns up dead—face-down in her flower bed, no less!—her fresh start starts to wilt. Everyone knows her father had a grudge against the investor, and word travels fast in her small town. Now, Shiloh must clear her family's name and track down the real killer before her new life is uprooted for good.
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Shiloh Bellamy, the heroine of this sprightly series launch from Flower (the Magic Garden mysteries), returns to her hometown of Cherry Glen, Mich., after 15 years spent building her career as a TV producer in Hollywood. Her goal is to get her family's failing farm up and running again. To that end, she has signed a contract with entrepreneur Jefferson Crocker, who has agreed to invest heavily in her plan to convert the farm to organic growing methods. When her father, Sully, hears of her deal, he flies into a rage. It seems that Sully, like many Cherry Gleners, views Crocker as a heartless money grubber, intent on owning the town and filling the surrounding farmland with wind turbines. Shiloh, realizing she's made a mistake, goes to the farmers' market intent on convincing Crocker to let her out of their contract, only to find him dead. For the local police, she becomes the prime suspect. With a full complement of insecurities, along with a nice sense of humor, Shiloh is a winning lead. Flower ticks all the requisite boxes: a good man, a bad man, a mean woman, a small town, and family conflict. Cozy fans will be enchanted.
