In A Jam

Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries #19

by Elizabeth Adams

When rat poison is discovered in the jars of Naomi's strawberry jam sold at the Swiss Miss, Cheryl sets out to prove her friend is not the one responsible for poisoning anyone. But, first, she needs to figure out who did it & why!

After several people in Sugarcreek end up in the hospital due to the contaminated jam, Cheryl follows the trail to the perpetrator of the crime...... & ends up in an unexpected place.

Genres: Amish, Mystery, Cozy Mystery

238 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Elizabeth Adams lives in New York City with her husband. When she’s not writing, she spends her time playing with their rambunctious daughter, cleaning up after two devious cats, and trying to find time to read mysteries.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

A customer comes into Cheryl’s store and says he wife is deathly ill after eating jam she bought there. Another customer is a doctor and says the wife needs to be at the hospital and offers to have the jam tested. It is filled with rat poison. 2 more people end up in the hospital. The police are being pushed to find out what happened and arrest Naomi even though the chief and Cheryl don’t think she did it. Cheryl starts interviewing everyone who was at Naomi’s house that dad to find out who did it.

[Carrie Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favorite one in the series so far! A good story and a small step forward for Levi and Cheryl.

The one thing that I thought was silly was when Cheryl was very put off by the man with tattoos. Do people seriously still think that people are bad when they see a tattoo??

[Pamela Pavkov · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a Jam is a very mysterious story written by Elizabeth Adams in the Sugarcreek Amish Mystery series. Cheryl Cooper has a very difficult job ahead of her to clear her dear friend Naomi Miller of poisoning her strawberry jam. When people around Sugarcreek are rushed to the hospital to save their lives the local sheriff has no choice but to arrest Naomi. As Cheryl fters thru her suspect list she is unable to pin this crime on anyone but then a new suspect emerges and Cheryl takes drastic actions to prove this person's involvement. When all is revealed lives are changed forever and Cheryl finds herself feeling sorry for the person putting rat poisoning in Naomi's jam. This is a wonderful mystery filled with forgiveness.

I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached to post a favorable response and all opinions are my own. I have rated this story with five stars for meeting my expectations of a wonderful story that I can highly recommend to others.

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this 19th book of the series we find the town of Sugarcreek in the midst of winter. A very angry man comes into the Swiss Miss saying that his wife is very sick after eating some of Naomi's jam. Cheryl has a the jar tested and finds that yes it was poisoned with rat poisioning. By the next day there a 4 more cases and is making Naomi look very guilty. She doesn't want to bring the police into it so Cheryl starts looking for the person really responsible for it.

[Elaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story. Cheryl saves the day once more.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Naomi's strawberry jam has been tainted with rat poison. Who did it? Cheryl is on the case to clear her best friend!!

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another hit

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but some of the other Sugarcreek Amish mysteries have been better.

[Lyn Soulia-Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

A loving and moving series with a mystery thrown in.

[Cris · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Mystery in this book was Naomi's strawberry jam. Was it really what was making people sick? To make things worse the first person who got sick was the wife of an Ohio senator.

[Eric Palmer · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 One of the better titles in this fairly wholesome series IMO

[Debby · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was wasn't one of my favorites. Business is slow and someone puts poison in Naomi's jam. Just alittle repetitive and slow moving