Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary

Dairy, Dairy Quite Contrary by Amy Lillard is the debut of A Sunflower Café Mysteries. We meet Sissy Yoder and her Yorkshire terrier, Duke. I like Amy Lillard’s casual writing style. It is welcoming and friendly. The pacing is leisurely and could have used an injection of caffeine. Sissy Yoder is a friendly character who has an adorable dog named Duke. The murder of the milkman happens early in the story. Sissy is the prime suspect. A cute cozy mystery.

Kansas, Amish-community, relatives, relationships, journalist, family-dynamics, family-business, family, small-business, small-town, murder, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, amateur-sleuth, situational-humor, cozy-mystery**** Sissie's most recent career was as an advice columnist in a Tulsa newspaper, now she is on hiatus from that and trying to help out a curmudgeonly relative at her cafe in Yoder, Kansas. Within the first few days she and her beloved Yorkie have a lot to adjust to (and the town to her sporty convertible). But the biggest thing is the milk delivery man dead at the back door of the cafe with a chef's knife in his back and the local law fixated on her as the murderer. Let the sleuthing begin! A great start to a new series! The plot is sound, complete with plot twists and red herrings. Loved it! I requested and received a free e-book copy from Kensington Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

I love a nice cozy mystery. And this one suits me quite well. I love the book cover, and the story ran smoothly and was very enjoyable. I love that cozy mysteries are exactly that and even have a little humor in them as did this one. It's the beginning book of a cozy series. Which I suspect will be fun and mysterious. The story was in the Amish town of "Yoder", a good Amish name, where most of the towns' people had that surname. I wondered who had the most reason to commit the murder of the