Author: P. L. Gaus
Year: 2011
Rank:
Rating:
Original Rating:
Pop Rating:
Genres/categories:
Mystery, Fiction
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs:
9780452297869
0452297869 |
| 
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?" Sheriff Robertson asks when he arrives on the scene. "Who will believe that?" But Burkholder is adamant about his guilt, fueled by the passion of his love for Vesta Miller, the young woman both he and Spiegle so desperately wanted to marry. No sooner does the sheriff start his investigation than he learns of two more murders in the Pinecraft community, and a startling connection is made. There's no way around it-Professor Mike Branden will have to put his research trip on hold and, along with detective Ricky Niell, travel south to investigate. There they discover the disturbing truth about Spiegle's conversion to the Amish faith and the reason for the long-smoldering hatred that has reached into the secluded pastoral valleys of Holmes County. In Harmless as Doves, P. L. Gaus takes the action to Florida in one of the most exciting mysteries in the series. This is Gaus at his best.
This book is part of the "Amish-Country Mysteries" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Cast a Blue Shadow"
First published in 2003
Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Clouds without Rain"
First published in 2001
Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Broken English"
First published in 2000
Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
Similar books:
|
