Brenda H. (booksinvt) - , reviewed on 9/30/2018 + 465 more book reviews

Premeditated Peppermint is the third installment in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series set in Harvest, Ohio and featuring chocolatier, Bailey King. Adjusting to life away from New York and helping her grandmother run the family's Amish Swissmen Sweets candy shop, Bailey is looking forward to the Christmas season.

Swissmen Sweets will be featuring everything peppermint you could possibly think of in their booth at the Christmas Market on the square. Working alongside her grandmother and Charlotte, Bailey thinks they have more than enough candy ready for the festival and is looking forward to enjoying the festivities.

When Bailey's ex boyfriend, playboy Eric Sharp and his television production crew roll into Harvest, she is not too happy to see him and even less interested in his pitch to film his cooking show inside of Swissmen Sweets. It's only one day before Bailey stumbles upon the strangled body of the show's producer Rocky Rivers in the town gazebo. Bailey is not really surprised to learn that Eric had been having a relationship with the woman, but she is surprised when he becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

Once again Bailey finds herself mixed up in an investigation against the wishes of Deputy Aiden Brody. Even though she knows that Eric is a first class jerk, Bailey knows he is too self-centered to commit a crime so she sets out with the help of her best friend Cass to catch a killer.

A delightful romp from the first page to the last. Just the right setting to get you in the holiday spirit - filled with Christmas tree farms, a live nativity scene and a troublemaking camel, the return of Aiden's mom and her pot bellied pig Jethro, and lots of mouthwatering candy. Plus a surprising twist at the end that may mean a change for Swissmen Sweets.

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