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After the first blizzard of winter, a Mennonite girl with a troubled past appears curled up and bloodied outside the office of her former psychiatrist. The wealthy mother of her boyfriend has been murdered, but Martha Lehman has turned mute once more and Professor Branden must investigate.

A mute Mennonite girl with a troubled past. A wealthy benefactor found murdered in her home. In the wake of both events, Professor Michael Branden begins an investigation that threatens to tear Millersburg College apart.

The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, is rocked by a woman¿s murder. When a local reporter turns up dead as well, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, the first victim¿s father. With Hawkins nowhere to be found among his Amish community, Professor Michael Branden sets out to uncover the elusive truth.

In the wake of a fatal accident involving an Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler, Professor Michael Branden¿s suspicions grow alongside a number of mysterious happenings plaguing the quiet community. Will he uncover the true source of the crash before anyone else gets hurt?

Mystery and foreboding lurk in a quiet Old Order Amish community when a young boy goes missing one early morning without a trace. With a strong distrust of law enforcement and the modern ¿English¿ ways, the bishop must put his faith in an unlikely partnership. Will he find the boy before it¿s too late?

Book 8 of the Amish-Country MysteriesRuth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community. He immediatel...

As he goes about his milking chores on a cold October morning, Bishop Leon Shetler daydreams of escaping the Ohio winter and taking a bus to the Pinecraft Amish community in Florida for a vacation. His reverie is suddenly interrupted when young Crist Burkholder enters the barn, head down, hat in hand, to make a confession. "I just killed Glenn Spiegle." An Amish murderer? No sooner does the sheriff start his investigation than he learns of two...

The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an itinerant ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of...

As he goes about his chores on a cold morning, Bishop Leon Shetler daydreams of escaping the Ohio winter when his reverie is interrupted by a young man with a dangerous confession.

P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In Whiskers of the Lion, Sheriff Bruce Robertson is charged with finding a young Amish woman on the run from a murderous drug ring so she can testify in federal court. Wrestling with a recurring childhood nightmare of a deadly lion, the Holmes ...

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The new installment in P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries.

The new installment in P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries.

Book 1 of the Amish-Country Mysteries"For more than a decade, P. L. Gaus has been writing quietly spellbinding mysteries about... the conservative Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio."-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times In the wooded Amish hill country, a professor at a small college, a local pastor, and the county sheriff are the only ones among the mainstream, or "English, " who possess the instincts and skills to work the cases that impact a...

Book 2 of the Amish-Country Mysteries, Broken English compulsively explores a fascinating culture set purposely apart.In the wooded Amish hill country, a professor at a small college, a local pastor, and the county sheriff are the only ones among the mainstream, or "English, " who possess the instincts and skills to work the cases that impact all county residents, no matter their code of conduct or religious creed.David Hawkins came to the qui...

In the wake of a fatal accident involving an Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler, Professor Michael Branden's suspicions grow alongside a number of mysterious happenings plaguing the quiet community. Will he uncover the true source of the crash before anyone else gets hurt?

The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an itinerant ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of...

From the choppy waves off Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island to the too tranquil farmlands of Holmes County's Amish countryside, mystery and foreboding lurk under layers of tradition and repression before boiling up to the surface with tragic consequences.For Jon Mills, the journey begins with his decision to retrieve his ten-year-old son from the hands of the Bishop who bad ten years earlier cast Mills out of the Order, the same Bishop who is Jon...

Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the "English" world, a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test the limits of their parents' religion to the breaking point. The murder of one and the abduction of another challenge Professor Michael Branden as he confronts the communal fear that the young people can never be brought home safely. Along with Holmes County Sheriff Bruce Robertson and Pastor Cal Troyer, Professor...

Separate from the World" is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence.Ohio University Press