Amanda Flower

Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over thirty-five mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she had been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. She currently writes for Penguin-Random House (Berkley), Kensington, Hallmark Publishing, Crooked Lane Books, and Sourcebooks. In addition to being a writer, she was a librarian for fifteen years. Today, Flower and her husband own a farm and recording studio, and they live in Northeast Ohio with their two adorable cats.

Books in order of publication:

As Amanda Flower

India Hayes series

Maid of Murder, Five Star Publishing, 2010

Murder in a Basket, Five Star Publishing, 2012

Amish Candy Shop series

Assaulted Caramel, Kensington Publishing, 2017

Lethal Licorice, Kensington Publishing, 2018

Premeditated Peppermint, Kensington Publishing, 2018

Criminally Cocoa, Kensington Publishing, 2019

Toxic Toffee, Kensington Publishing, 2019

Amish Matchmaker series

Matchmaking Can Be Murder, Kensington Publishing, 2020

Appleseed Creek series

A Plain Death, B&H Publishing, 2012

A Plain Scandal, B&H Publishing, 2013

A Plain Disappearance, B&H Publishing, 2013

A Plain Malice, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Andi Boggs series

Andi Unexpected, Zonderkidz, 2013

Andi Under Pressure, Zonderkidz, 2014

Andi Unstoppable, Zonderkidz, 2015

Emily Dickinson Murder Mysteries

Because I Could Not Stop for Death(2022)
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died(2023)
I Died for Beauty(2025)

Living History Museum series

The Final Reveille, Midnight Ink, 2015

The Final Tap, Midnight Ink, 2016

The Final Vow, Midnight Ink, 2017

Magical Bookshop series

Crime and Poetry, Penguin Random House, 2016

Prose and Cons, Penguin Random House, 2016

Murders and Metaphors, Crooked Lane Books, 2019

Verse and Vengeance, Crooked Lane Books, 2019

Magic Garden series

Flowers and Foul Play, Crooked Lane Books, 2018

Death and Daisies, Crooked Lane Books, 2019

As Isabella Alan

Amish Quilt Shop series

Plainly Murder, New American Library, 2013, prequel novella

Murder, Plain and Simple, New American Library, 2013

Murder, Simply Stitched, New American Library, 2014

Murder, Served Simply, New American Library, 2014

Murder, Plainly Read, New American Library, 2015

Murder, Handcrafted, New American Library, 2016