Download or read book Murder of an Amish Bridegroom written by Patricia Johns and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quiet Amish lifestyle isn't all that it seems in this debut cozy mystery series, for fans of Amanda Flower and Wanda E. Brunstetter. Petunia Yoder is Blueberry, Pennsylvania’s youngest old maid, at twenty-two years of age, and completely unmarriageable. But she’s determined to celebrate her friends’ weddings with joy and a full heart. Unfortunately, Petunia’s best friend, Eden Beiler, is playing a dangerous game with a man who is ruining her reputation. Ike Smoker is the community’s iceman—the one who cuts, stores, and sells the ice—and when Petunia discovers him dead with an ice pick in his chest, Eden is found on the scene with blood on her hands. Homicide detective Asher Nate is new to the area, and he has a challenge on his hands. The Amish community sticks close together, and he doesn’t understand the subtleties and nuances of the clues he uncovers. He needs an Amish interpreter, and he asks Petunia if she’ll help. In a bid to keep her best friend out of prison, she agrees. The community is filled with people who had good reason to hate Ike Smoker, especially as Petunia and Asher begin to uncover his secrets. Was someone trying to protect their family's reputation? Or to exact revenge for a sin buried deep in the past? There’s a litany of damning clues that litters the ground—and if Petunia and Asher can’t come up with the truth, they could end up as the next ones on the killer’s list.
Download or read book Amelia s Hope written by Susan Lantz Simpson and published by Vinspire Publishing, LLC . This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young widow Amelia Stauffer loves her serene life caring for her three daughters along with widower Ryan Miller’s two little girls, weaving baskets, and baking treats to sell at her friend’s store. Her peace is shattered, though, when various possessions disappear and an unknown person prowls her property at night. Ryan Miller thinks of Amelia as much more than his children’s babysitter, but he and Amelia belong to different groups of Mennonites making a relationship impossible. Will they find a way to bridge that gap while working together to identify and stop the intruder?
Download or read book A Murder in Amish Ohio written by David Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the "Amish murder" opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community--a community that in some respects remains as enigmatic today as it was more than half a century ago. Authors of Wicked Columbus, Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate and others, David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker unravel the intricacies surrounding one of Ohio's most intriguing murder cases.
Download or read book A Groom for Ruby and The Amish Witness written by Emma Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Amish stories of faith and love A Groom for Ruby by Emma Miller Arriving in Seven Poplars to find a husband, Ruby Plank stumbles into the arms of an eligible bachelor! To her amazement, Joseph Brenneman doesn’t care if Ruby is clumsy or outspoken. The shy mason thinks she’s wonderful. If only others felt the same! Joseph’s mother insists Ruby isn’t good enough. When Ruby’s family secret is revealed, it could divide the couple forever…unless pride gives way to love and trust. The Amish Witness by Diane Burke After witnessing her best friend’s murder, Elizabeth Lapp flees to the Amish community she left years ago. But the killer follows Elizabeth, trapping her in a barn, until Thomas King saves her. The handsome Amish farmer she left behind vows to keep her safe. Suddenly, the man who’s not yet ready to forgive her is all that’s standing between her and a cold-blooded killer.
Download or read book A Puzzling Amish Murder written by Samantha Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ettie Smith is back! She's over eighty and Amish, but this feisty sleuthing widow won't let anything slow her down. When Ettie stumbled over a dead body, she was surprised to see it was an Amish woman, Deena Brown. Ettie soon learned Deena had not always been Amish. It was one reason the woman never fitted in-that and the fact that no one saw her for days when she was working on her jigsaw puzzles. Ettie knew if she recreated Deena's last days the murderer would be revealed. It wasn't as easy as it seemed because the information didn't form a proper picture. Was the killer covering his tracks by hiding missing pieces? Who killed Deena Brown? Was it a disgruntled client from her realtor days? Her estranged ex-husband? Or, was it someone entirely different? Someone, possibly, who'd been under their noses the whole time? Can Ettie fit the clues together of this puzzling murder, so Deena can rest in ... piece? From USA Today Bestselling and Kindle All-Stars author, Samantha Price, comes the twenty-third book in the Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries series. A series that has delighted lovers of clean, light-hearted mysteries for years.
Download or read book A Puzzling Amish Murder LARGE PRINT written by Samantha Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ettie Smith is back! She's over eighty and Amish, but this feisty sleuthing widow won't let anything slow her down. When Ettie stumbled over a dead body, she was surprised to see it was an Amish woman, Deena Brown. Ettie soon learned Deena had not always been Amish. It was one reason the woman never fitted in-that and the fact that no one saw her for days when she was working on her jigsaw puzzles. Ettie knew if she recreated Deena's last days the murderer would be revealed. It wasn't as easy as it seemed because the information didn't form a proper picture. Was the killer covering his tracks by hiding missing pieces? Who killed Deena Brown? Was it a disgruntled client from her realtor days? Her estranged ex-husband? Or, was it someone entirely different? Someone, possibly, who'd been under their noses the whole time? Can Ettie fit the clues together of this puzzling murder, so Deena can rest in ... piece? From USA Today Bestselling and Kindle All-Stars author, Samantha Price, comes the twenty-third book in the Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries series. A series that has delighted lovers of clean, light-hearted mysteries for years.
Download or read book Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries written by Samantha Price and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An octogenarian Amish sleuth, quirky characters, squeaky clean mysteries! For your convenience, Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries are now in BOX SETS! Secrets Come Home: When Ettie Smith's dear friend Agatha dies, she's surprised to be left Agatha's house. The surprises continue when a body is discovered under the floorboards. Amish Murder: A former Amish woman is murdered, and her brother Jacob is arrested for the crime. The new detective in town is not used to the local Amish community and gets nowhere with his questions. He turns to elderly Amish widow, Ettie Smith, for help. Murder in the Amish Bakery: Wherever Ettie goes, trouble follows. There's another dead body. All she was doing when she went to Ruth Fuller's bakery was to find out why her bread kept sinking in the middle. The last thing she expected was to find a body on the floor. This series from a USA Today bestselling and Kindle All-Stars author has delighted lovers of clean, light-hearted mysteries for years.
Download or read book Marriage Can Be Mischief written by Amanda Flower and published by Premier Mystery Series. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millie is happy that her childhood friend, Uriah Schrock, has returned to Harvest after decades away. He was sweet on Millie in their school days, but she only had eyes for her future husband. Now, there's a new spark between them, so Millie is concerned when Uriah doesn't show up at the Harvest concert series -- or for his job as the village square's groundskeeper. Perhaps Millie has been involved in too many murder investigations, but she has a sinking feeling. And when she and her best friend, Lois, find Uriah with the police, it seems she's right . . .
Download or read book A Killing in Amish Country written by Gregg Olsen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself "Amish Stud" and found no shortage of "English" women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church. Barb Raber was raised Amish, but is now a Conservative Mennonite. She drove Eli to appointments in her car, and she gave him what he wanted when he wanted: a cell phone, a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting places, and, most importantly, sex. When Eli starts asking people to kill his wife for him, Barb offers to help. One night, just after Eli had hitched a ride with a group of men to go fishing in the hours before dawn, Barb Raber entered the Weaver house and shot Barbara Weaver in the chest at close range. It was only the third murder in hundreds of years of Amish life in America, and it fell to Edna Boyle, a young assistant prosecutor to seek justice for Barbara Weaver.
Download or read book One Light Still Shines written by Marie Monville and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My story is not about my past, but about your future,” says Marie Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow and destruction, but also one of majestic deliverance, unending compassion, breathtaking forgiveness, and grace-filled redemption. Within a solitary moment, Marie Monville realized that life, as she knew it, was over. What she never anticipated was a tangible encounter with God reaching into her circumstances, through them rewriting all she believed about herself, her faith, and the God she thought she knew. One Light Still Shines reveals three love stories: the innocent love of a devoted wife for a husband in pain, the incomprehensible love of God in the aftermath of massacre and destruction, and the redemptive love of Christ, waiting to unfold in the life of every person who reads this book. Marie's journey since that darkest of days has been invaded with light which shines through these pages into the darkest questions we all face--questions about our past, our value, our identity, and own powerlessness in this fallen world. Come face to face with the Power behind every answer—a love that begs to be received.
Download or read book Hearse and Buggy written by Laura Bradford and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first title in a brand-new mystery series featuring an Amish community in the fictional town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, "Hearse and Buggy" offers an inside glimpse into the Amish lifestyle. OThe best cozy mystery debut I've read this year.O--Harlan Coben. Original.
Download or read book Albion s Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Download or read book Trading Lives written by Eric Stoffle and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN KELLY was gravely injured by a road-side bomb in Iraq during his last tour. His daughter wants to carry on his legacy and become a soldier, too. As Jamie Kelly wrestles with leaving her father and stepmother to pursue her dream, she learns a friend she hasn't associated with in years is in serious trouble. In her efforts to help her friend, Jamie uncovers long-buried secrets that threaten to shred the very fabric of her existence. She may be young, but she is driven to do the right thing. Doing the right thing sometimes has unintended results. Jamie dreams of becoming an Army Ranger and following in her father's footsteps. She is confident and a skilled martial artist whose favorite weapons are knives. After training with her friend and mentor, Mario Parris, she relies on her skills to investigate a crime that happened before she was born but has just now come full circle.Life may not have been perfect before, but how will Jamie Kelly deal with the life-altering secrets in Trading Lives?
Download or read book Footprints in the Sand written by Mary Jane Clark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar-sand-dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor. But a cloud seems to be hovering over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the beach where the wedding will take place. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex–drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather—or even the bridegroom himself? As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!
Download or read book The Finished Mystery written by Charles Taze Russell and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lawman s Surprise Family written by Patricia Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Secret Child For eight years, journalist and single mother Sofia McCray kept her son a secret from his maverick father. But when she returns to her small Montana hometown, her high school sweetheart isn't the rebellious teen she left behind. Ben Blake is a widowed cop who's been through heartbreak, and he wants their child in his life. When her next assignment throws Sofia together with the handsome police officer in his squad car, she discovers just how much he truly cares about his community, their son...and her. Now Sofia must learn to trust her own heart to reunite a family that's meant to be together.
Download or read book In the Hall with the Knife written by Diana Peterfreund and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderer could be around every corner in this thrilling YA trilogy based on the board game CLUE! When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students—including Beth “Peacock” Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam “Mustard” Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry—are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, his body is found in the conservatory and it’s very clear his death was no accident. With this group of students who are all hiding something, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a motive for murder. Fans of the CLUE board game and cult classic film will delight in Diana Peterfreund’s modern reimagining of the brand, its characters, and the dark, magnificent old mansion with secrets hidden within its walls.
