Murder in a Basket
India Hayes Mystery #2

College librarian India Hayes thought the worst thing about the Stripling Founders’ Festival was her pink gingham pioneer dress until she discovered the body of a free-spirited basket weaver on the festival grounds. The basket weaver leaves behind an angry blacksmith husband, a confused adopted son, greedy siblings, a dysfunctional artists’ co-op, and a labradoodle with a two-million-dollar trust in his name. Despite the wrath of her college’s provost and protests by handsome police detective Rick Mains, India finds herself playing sleuth as well as foster-owner to the two-million-dollar dog. With her own eccentric family commenting from the sidelines and her Irish-centric landlady as volunteer sidekick, India must discover the truth before she has a permanent canine houseguest or ends up the next victim in the basket weaver’s murder.

“. . . this humorous cozy moves at a steady clip, throwing in a monkey wrench or two to put readers off-track. Agatha Award nominee Flower has the chops to make this series last. Try this one with Jess Lourey, Avery Aames, and Donna Andrews fans.” - Library Journal

"Fans of Donna Andrews’ humorous Meg Langslow mysteries will enjoy India and her quirky extended family." - Booklist

“In Flower’s delightful, clean-as-a-whistle second India Hayes mystery, India, the librarian at Ohio’s Martin College, intends to retrieve the items she left in her face-painting booth at the founders’ festival, but discovers more than she bargained for . . . The satisfying conclusion will leave cozy fans eager for India’s next adventure.”- Publishers Weekly

"As its [Murder in a Basket's] predecessor, Maid of Murder, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel, it’s clear that Flower has something good going." -Akron Beacon Journal

"More fun than a raucous game of Clue, Amanda Flower's clever new puzzler, Murder in a Basket, is a well-written, well-plotted joy. India Hayes is my kind of librarian. One of the best new cozy series going."
-Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times best-selling author of ONE WAS A SOLDIER

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Maid of Murder
India Hayes Mystery #1

2010 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel


“The first bud in a new series that fans of Donna Andrews's lighthearted Meg Langslow mysteries will be eager to see bloom.”-Kirkus Reviews

“Flower’s breezy debut introduces a quirky heroine...Warring cats and distinctive characters, like India’s ‘everything Irish’ landlady and her bizarre ’60s activist parents, will appeal to cozy fans.” -Publishers Weekly

Five Star Mystery/Gale

Published/Released: February 2012

ISBN 13: 978-2-59414-864-4

Large Print ISBN: 978-1-41042-976-6

Hardcover available at Amazon.com, Five Star, Barnes and Noble

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Large Print available at Thorndike Press

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