Isabella Alan

(aka Amanda Flower)

Alan, a librarian at a small college, writes the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series. The series is set in Ohio and features Angela Braddock who just inherited an Amish quilt shop. As Amanda Flower she writes the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series. This series takes place in Ohio Amish country, and features a sleuth who works at a college in the computer field. She also writes the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series which features Violet, who works in her grandmom’s magical bookstore. Also, she writes the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series which is set in Ohio and features Bailey King, a chocolatier and the Living History Museum Mystery Series which features Kelsey Cambridge, the director of a museum in Ohio. Flower also writes the India Hayes Mystery Series which features a college librarian/sleuth. And, as if all of this wasn’t enough, she also writes the Andi Boggs Mystery Series for children! 

AMISH QUILT SHOP MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Angela Braddock, Inheritor of Ohio Amish Quilt Shop

1. Murder, Plain and Simple  ’13
2. Murder, Simply Stitched    ’14
3. Murder, Served Simply    ’14
4. Murder, Plainly Read    ’15
5. Murder, Handcrafted     ’16

Plainly Murder    ’13 (Prequel Novella)

Written as Amanda Flower:

FARM TO TABLE MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Shiloh Bellamy, returning to family farm in Michigan

1. Farm to Trouble   ’21
2. Put Out to Pasture   ’22
3. In Farm’s Way   ’23
4. Crime and Cherry Pits   ’24

EMILY DICKINSON MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Emily Dickinson

1. Because I Could Not Stop for Death   ’22

KATHARINE WRIGHT MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers, in Dayton, Ohio

1. To Slip the Bonds of Earth   ’24

AMISH CANDY SHOP MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Bailey King, assistant chocolatier for a prestigious New York City chocolate company. Bailey returns to her grandparents Swissmen Sweets Amish candy shop in Harvest, Ohio. Includes recipes!

1. Assaulted Caramel    ’17
2. Lethal Licorice    ’18
3. Premeditated Peppermint   ’18
4. Toxic Toffee    ’19
5. Marshmallow Malice   ’20
6. Lemon Drop Dead   ’21
7. Peanut Butter Panic   ’22
8. Blueberry Blunder   ’23
9. Gingerbread Danger   ’24

Criminally Cocoa    ’19 (novella)

MAGICAL BOOKSHOP MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Violet Waverly & Her Grandma Daisy, Charming Books Magical Store Owners, Emerson is Violets Tuxedo Cat

1. Crime and Poetry    ’16
2. Prose and Cons    ’16
3. Murders and Metaphors   ’19
4. Verse and Vengeance    ’19
5. Crimes and Covers   ’22

AMISH MATCHMAKER MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Millie Fisher is a widow who is a quiltmaker. She becomes a matchmaker when she moves back to Harvest, Ohio – the town she grew up in.

1. Matchmaking Can Be Murder     ’19
2. Courting Can Be Killer   ’20
3. Marriage Can Be Mischief   ’21
4. Honeymoons Can Be Hazardous   ’22
5. Dating Can Be Deadly   ’23

PIPER AND PORTER MYSTERY Series:

Main Characters: Darby Piper, private eye, and Tate Porter, veteran and world traveler

1. Dead End Detective   ’20
2. Frozen Detective   ’22

MAGIC GARDEN MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Fiona Knox, Florist, Owner of the Climbing Rose Flower Shop, Scotland

1. Flowers and Foul Play   ’18 
2. Death and Daisies    ’18
3. Mums and Mayhem   ’19

LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Kelsey Cambridge, Director of Barton Farm – Living History Museum, Ohio

1. The Final Reveille    ’15
2. The Final Tap    ’16
3. The Final Vow    ’17

APPLESEED CREEK MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Chloe Humphrey, Computer Specialist at a College, Ohio’s Amish Country

1. A Plain Death    ’12
2. A Plain Scandal   ’13
3. A Plain Disappearance    ’13

INDIA HAYES MYSTERY Series: 

Main character: India Hayes, College Librarian, Ohio

1. Maid of Murder    ’10
2. Murder in a Basket    ’12

ANDI BOGGS MYSTERY Series:

(Children’s mystery series)

1. Andi Unexpected    ’13
2. Andi Under Pressure    ’14
3. Andi Unstoppable    ’15