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Professor Michael Branden, newly deputized to the Holmes County sheriff's department, gives every outward appearance of being Amish. His assignment: to act as a decoy in Bruce Robertson's investigation of a series of robberies among - and perhaps by - the Peaceful Ones. Suddenly ...
Trained by the U.S. military to kill, "English" outsider David Hawkins came to the quiet town of Millersburg and found salvation among the pacifist Amish. But Hawkins' fragile tranquility is shattered when a marauding ex-convict descends on Millersburg, unleashing a wave of viole...
After Curtis Burkholder kills Glenn Spiegle over a woman and two more murders are discovered in their Amish community, Sheriff Robertson and Professor Mike Branden go to Florida to learn the truth about Glenn Spiegle and his motive for converting to the Amish faith.
The new installment in P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries. 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 li...
Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, with a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth decides to destroy her illicit burden -- and pays with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson...
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, h...
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 you...
"After an early winter blizzard in Holmes County, Ohio, a wealthy socialite is found murdered in her mansion. That same morning, a troubled student, Martha Lehman, turns up at her psychiatrist's office, bloody and unable to speak. Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Rober...
Book 8 of the Amish-Country Mysteries Ruth 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...
Book 5 of the Amish-Country Mysteries Three young friends disappear while traveling on their Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe, or wild days. In a race against the clock, the sheriff must find a murderer and break a ruthless drug ring operating within the heart of Ohio's Am...
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 "Englis...
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 County sheriff finds himself torn between allegiance to the l...
Professor Michael Branden is intrigued when Enos Erb, an Amish man, claims that his brother, Benny-a dwarf like himself-has been murdered. But Branden's attention is divided when a young student apparently leaps to her death from the college bell tower. As Branden and his frie...
Read P. L. Gaus's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Book 1 of the Amish-Country Mysteries 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 poss...
The chill of autumn is just settling into Holmes County, Ohio, when Bishop Leon Shetler is startled out of his morning reverie by the words, "I just killed Glenn Spiegle." No one--least of all Sheriff Bruce Robertson--believes that Crist Burkholder could actually be a murderer....
Trained by the U.S. military to kill, "English" outsider David Hawkins came to the quiet town of Millersburg and embraced the principled nonviolence of the Amish. But Hawkins's fragile tranquility is shattered when a marauding ex-convict descends on Millersburg, murdering his onl...