If you haven’t read it here already, I don’t like reading romance. I just can’t suspend my disbelief and enjoy the tropes and rules for the genre. So that’s why my book review of Marriage Can Be Mischief by Amanda Flower is tied to the friendship part of this month’s theme of romance and friendship. This cozy mystery is part of Amish Matchmaker Mysteries series, and the main attraction for me is the unusual sleuthing duo.

Amish matchmaker Millie Fischer and her Englischer friend Lois have been friends since childhood and that bond hasn’t diminished now that they’re in their sixties. Lois, who’s been married four times, helps her granddaughter run a restaurant while Millie, a widow with no children, is a quilter with matchmaking on the side. Readers learn lots of character quirks like Millie’s love of blueberries and her pet goats, Peter and Philip, along with Lois’s pursuit of unusual hairdos. It’s so refreshing to read a mystery series which isn’t about a thirty-something professional woman coming back to her hometown and stumbling over bodies while discovering a new boyfriend.

In this mystery, Millie and Lois delve into the forty-year-old murder of an Amish man and the disappearance of his wife. Everyone assumes that Galilee murdered her husband Samuel forty years ago because she disappeared the same wintry night Samuel died. Her brother Uriah never believed that and has always wondered what happened to her. When a body is found in the ravine where Samuel’s body was found, the question of where Galilee disappeared to may be answered. But that only leads to a new mystery that Millie is determine to solve in order to help Uriah.

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If you read mysteries, especially cozy mysteries, what books do you recommend?