Murder, Simply Stitched by Isabella Alan

The Amish Shop Mystery series follows character Angela Braddock. This series includes the titles Plainly MurderPlain and also Simple Murder Simply Stitched Murder Served Simply and Murder, Plainly Read. As Isabella Allan, she has created a riveting series of novels published by Penguin Press as the Amish Quit Shop Mystery. Her transition from a college librarian and reluctant bridesmaid into an amateur sleuth won Flower a nomination for an Agatha Award in the Best First Novel category and launched her into the mystery writing community.įlower later decided to write as another person within herself and later created Isabella Alan. The first novel that put Flower on the map was Maid of Murder, a novel that follows character India Hayes through her journey of finding a childhood friend’s murderer who framed her brother for the crime. Again in 2014, Flower received the Agatha award for being the best Children’s/YA Mystery.Īlong with being an author, Flower also enjoys her job as a librarian at small college around Cleveland, OH. In 2013 Flowers was named a Christian Retailing Finalist in the Amish Category, an Inspy Awards Finalist in the Mystery/Thriller Category, an Agatha Award Nominee for Best Children’s/YA Mystery, and a ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist in Religious Fiction.

Since then she has seen her work grant her a Thunder House New Voice of Fiction label and a ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist in Religious Fiction. Her very first award nomination was in 2010 for the Agatha Award Nominee in Best First Novel. She recalled that her classmates were all in stitches and that at that very moment she knew that she had found the very thing that she wanted to be doing for the rest of her life.Ī long time from her years in elementary school, the author born in Akron, OH January 23, 1980, Flower has received many awards for her various works. As a young girl in elementary school, she found her calling with a story she authored and presented to her class about being stuck on a Ferris wheel at the very top. Isabella Alan, a pseudonym for the Amanda Flower has proven to be quite talented in her work. Isabella Alan, the mind behind both the Isabella Alan mysteries and the Amanda Flower mysteries as the two are one.

Murder, Simply Stitched by Isabella Alan