Bailey King first appeared in Assaulted Caramel and one of the best ways to learn about a person is by asking questions, so let’s get to know Bailey.

What is your full name?
Bailey Clara King

How old are you?
30

What is your profession?
Chocolatier and candy maker

Do you have a significant other?
Yes. *blushes*

What is their name and profession?
Sheriff Deputy Aiden Brody

Do you have any children?
No.

Do you have any siblings?
No.

Are your parents nearby?

No. I live in Ohio and they are in Connecticut.

Who is your best friend?
Cass Calbera. She’s a chocolatier in NYC.

Do you have any pets?
Yes, I have a shop cat named Nutmeg, a pet rabbit Puff, and there’s Jethro the pig, who technically belongs to Aiden’s mother, Juliet, but I pigsit a lot!

What town do you live in?
Harvest, Ohio

Would you say you live in a small town or a big city?
Small town in Ohio’s Amish Country.

Type of dwelling and do you own or rent?
I rent small house within walking distance from my candy shop.

What is your favorite spot in your home?
My kitchen. It’s yellow and bright.

Favorite meal and dessert?

Chocolate. Anything with chocolate.

Do you have any hobbies?
I guess solving murders now. I’ve solved a few. Mostly, I like helping people whenever I can.

What is your favorite vacation spot?
I work so much, I haven’t been on a vacation in years, but I love going to NYC to see Cass.

What music do you listen to?
I listen to a little bit of everything. When I worked at NYC, I listened to more music. Now that I work with Amish, they tend to work in silence, so I do my best to respect that. It was an adjustment.

Do you have a favorite book?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

What is your idea of a really fun time?
Being with my family and friends and enjoy the many events on the village square organized by community leader Margot Rawlings. . . but not being roped in to do all the work by Margot, which tends to happen.

If you were to write a memoir, what would you call it?
Assaulted Caramel. That time in my life changed everything for me. It’s the story of how I left NYC for Amish Country.

Amateur or professional sleuth and whom do you work with?
I’m an amateur sleuth, I suppose. I help my boyfriend Aiden solve crimes any way I can. Sometimes my Amish cousin Charlotte Weaver helps me, and Cass has been a great help too.

In a few sentences, what is a typical day in your life like?
Usually, I’m up at four in the morning and at my family Amish Candy Shop, Swissmen Sweets at five. I typically walk to work and take my rabbit Puff with me. She likes to spend the day with Nutmeg and shop cat and Jethro the pig. I make and sell candies all day with my Amish grandmother Clara and my Amish cousin Charlotte until the shop closes at five. How much traffic we get in the shop depends on the time of year, but in recent weeks the traffic has increased with the upcoming release of my cable television show, Bailey’s Amish Sweets. I film the show in NYC every few months. That’s typical when my day is not interrupted by murder. . .

Marshmallow Malice is the fifth book in the “Amish Candy Shop” cozy mystery series, released May 26, 2020.

Caught in a sticky situation . . .

With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohio’s Amish Country’s most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King is determined to do everything in her power to make the event a sweet success. Except midsummer heat waves and outdoor ceremonies don’t mix, and an exasperated Bailey soon finds herself struggling to fulfill bridesmaid duties and keep her stunning marshmallow-frosted wedding cake from becoming a gooey disaster. Then much to everyone’s shock, the entire ceremony crumbles when a guest drops dead, and the cause isn’t sunstroke . . .

Turns out, the uninvited victim came equipped with lots of dirt on the devout reverend’s hidden past. As Reverend Brook tops the murder suspect list on what should have been the happiest day of his life, Bailey and her sheriff’s deputy boyfriend vow to clear his name. Can the duo boil down a series of baffling clues before Juliet considers her marriage a bad mistake—or the killer whips up another deadly surprise?

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About the author
Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over thirty cozy mystery novels, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words. In addition to being an author, Amanda is a former librarian with fifteen years’ experience in Northeast Ohio. Her latest Amish mysteries are Matchmaking Can Be Murder, the first in the Amish Matchmaker Mysteries and the next two Amish Candy Shop Mysteries are Botched Butterscotch (4/28/20) and Marshmallow Malice (5/26/20). Visit her online on her website, Facebook, and Instagram.

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