Shiloh Bellamy is the sleuth in “Farm to Table” mysteries and sits down to answer a few questions so that we can get to know her better.

What is your full name?
Shiloh Bellamy (I hate my middle name, so I never share it.)

How old are you?
38

What is your profession?
Television producer, specializing in true crime, cooking shows, and gardening shows. . . turned farmer.

Do you have a significant other?
No. . . not for over a decade.

Do you have any children?
No

Do you have any siblings?
No

Are your parents nearby?
My father, Sullivan Bellamy, lives here on Bellamy Farm with me. My mother died when I was a child.

Who is your best friend?
Briar Hart. She’s a high-priced entertainment attorney in L.A.

Do you have any pets?
Yes, my pug Huckleberry, a cat named Esmeralda, and four orange barn cats, and chickens too.

What town do you live in?
Cherry Glen, Michigan.

Do you live in a small town or a big city?
Very small farming town.

What type of dwelling do you own or rent?
I own a cabin on my family farm that used to be my grandmother’s.

What is your favorite spot in your home?
I love to climb to the roof of our barn. From there, I can see all of the two hundred acres that we own and even Lake Michigan.

What is your favorite meal and dessert?
I try to watch my diet, but I have a sweet tooth. I love pastry. I could eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Do you have any hobbies?
I love to bake using organic ingredients. It’s my dream to open a farm to table bakery at Bellamy Farm someday.

What is your favorite vacation spot?
Vacation is sort of a foreign concept to a farmer. It’s hard to leave the farm, but before I returned to Michigan, I used to love to go to Napa in California. That seems like a lifetime ago.

What is your idea of a really fun time?
Working the land at Bellamy Farm.

If you were to write a memoir, what would you call it?
Farm to Trouble

Amateur or professional sleuth and whom do you work with?
I’m an amateur sleuth. . . I guess that’s what you’d call me. I have had some help from my neighbor Quinn Killlian, a local fireman, but usually I’m on my own.

What is a typical day in your life like in general and when you are on a case?
Usually, I’m up around four every morning because I have so many farm chores to do. My father is disabled, so I do the physical work on the farm. Then, I go into town and start asking questions. At the start of a case, I begin my investigation at Jessa’s Place, it’s the local diner in Cherry Glen and a town institution. If someone in the Glen has something to say, they go to Jessa’s Place to say it. It’s a great place to pick up clues.

Put Out To Pasture, A Farm to Table Mystery #2
Genre: Cozy
Release: February 2022
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There’s fowl play afoot on the farm

Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family’s farm from financial ruin—but now what? She’s barely scraping by on the farm’s new organic business model and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all, the evidence points to Shiloh’s childhood best friend, Kristy, as the prime suspect.

Between cooking up delicious treats made with her farm’s produce, convincing her cantankerous father to let her do things her own way, and dealing with a newcomer in town who could be serious competition for her customers, Shiloh doesn’t have time to wade into a murder investigation. But with a killer on the loose and suspicious activity circling closer and closer to Shiloh and the people she loves, she realizes there’s nothing to do but roll up her sleeves and get down to the dirty work of finding the killer and clearing Kristy’s name once and for all.

This book is perfect for cozy mystery readers and fans of Kate Carlisle, Denise Swanson, and Bree Baker!

About the author
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.

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