Simple Lies: An Amish Inn Mystery, by Jan Fields (Annie's, 2026, $19.99HB, 205pp, a cozy mystery)
The Speed
We like fast-reading books that you can't put down. At the very least, you have to - put it down, but can't wait to get back to it. Many books start out slow - slow enough that readers don't stick with the book and lay it aside. Permanently. Simple Lies starts out slow but then picks up speed.
Weird Christmas in April?
There is noting wrong with Christmas in April. As a matter of fact, it just might be the thing you need. Minus the horror, though. And minus the bones and minus the other weird stuff like shopkeepers in a quaint little town finding packages on their doorstep and, upon opening them, finding stinky moldy hay and bones - but as the gifts inside escalate in horror (rags, a dead mouse, etc.) someone must find out who is doing this and why.
On the Other Hand
On the other hand, we read of an attorney from the big city settling down in a small Amish town as the innkeeper until her ex-fiancee comes to visit and cause havoc. On the other hand, we have the innkeeper's friends who own a quaint little bakery or another store and are her friends, as well as a couple of Amish women who work at the inn and okeeper.her Amish who are actually relatives of our inn-keeper.
And Don't Forget Beans!
Beans is the inn's resident bulldog, a real sleeper. Beans doesn't have a large role in the story but is a constant and a cover model as well.
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