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 all county residents, no matter their code of conduct or religious creed. When an Amish boy is kidnapped, a bishop, fearful for the safety of his followers, plunges three outsiders into the traditionally closed society of the "Plain Ones.