Amish Women

Magdalena Yoder, chaste and abstemious proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, agrees to let a Hollywood crew film at the inn. But when the assistant director is found pinned to a barn post with a farming tool, dimwitted local police chief Marvin Stoltzfus fingers Magdalena as his prime suspect. Now it's time for Magdalena to use her extraordinary Amish sleuthing skills to reveal the real killer.

Magdalena Yoder, Amish-Mennonite proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, travels to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of her second cousin (twice removed) who had the unfortunate luck of drowning in a vat of milk - and, as Magdalena knows, Amish men just don't go swimming in milk in the middle of February. Something's definitely rotten in Farmersburg...

Whispers from the Dead is the powerful and thrilling sequel to Lamb to the Slaughter in the Amish mystery series, Serenity's Plain Secrets. Sheriff Serenity Adams and Daniel Bachman are once again partnered up in a criminal investigation, when they travel to a northern Amish settlement that has been riddled by arsons for the past two decades.

Just when Sheriff Serenity Adams thinks life is getting back to normal, the death of a young, pregnant Amish woman rocks the community. Is it circumstance...or murder? It's up to Serenity and her ex-Amish boyfriend, Daniel Bachman, to discover the truth about the new shaman-type medicine man who's brought his dark secrets to Blood Rock. But Serenity has secrets of her own, and if she and Daniel don't work it out, the reappearance of a woman from his past could threaten to ruin their relationship.

All of Pleasant Valley seems to think the newcomer from Lancaster County is the perfect match for teacher Leah. After all, so few new families come to their separate Amish community, and fewer still unmarried men. Daniel Glick is a widower with three young children to look after - clearly he's in need of a wife.

When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it's a foreshadowing of things to come. Soon after the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won't start.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Corporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture - the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day. Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men.

In this gripping conclusion to The Alliance, nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole's Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the region's power grid and altered life as they knew it. Since then Leora has watched and waited for news of Moses Hughes, the young Englischer pilot who held off invading looters long enough for everyone to escape.

SFX: Ker-flush "That's the sound of my career going down the toilet. Three months ago, I was the freelance reporter to call for full-color images of an international crisis. Now? I'm stationed at the far edge of the Chicago flyover as a disappointing mother-sub to my eight-year-old niece and the babysitter for a newsroom College Boy. One photo of the lifeless man was all I needed to see - there's more to this story than anyone wants to admit."

Good-hearted and impulsive, 20-year-old Lizzie Fisher has many chores - and secrets. She’s caring for kittens abandoned by their mother and practicing her drawing talent away from disapproving eyes. So the last thing she needs is someone like handsome Stephen Zimmerman constantly “helping” her out of trouble. But when she discovers they both have lovelorn siblings, she has an idea: Why can’t she and Stephen bring his older brother and her older sister together? After all, how hard could matchmaking be?

Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason. But with her husband’s passing, it’s time to come home. Reconnecting with her family means dealing with her past: the father she abandoned and the community she left behind. Her one escape is serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. But when the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death - with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young - Abbie is called into action.

Quando un tornado si abbatte su Painters Mill dissotterrando dei resti umani, spetta al capo della polizia Kate Burkholder la responsabilità di effettuare i primi rilievi e comunicare il ritrovamento delle ossa alla famiglia. Da subito la vicenda appare più complessa di quanto non sembri: emergono alcuni dettagli inquietanti, indizi che portano a pensare che quella morte non sia stata accidentale. Dietro al macabro rinvenimento si nasconde qualcosa d'indecifrabile, un mistero che risale a molti anni prima e affonda le radici nel cuore della comunità amish cui anche Kate una volta apparteneva.

In the fourth installment of the best-selling Serenity's Plain Secrets series, Serenity must work with US marshals to uncover the truth behind a shockingly brutal 15-year-cold murder. Desperate for answers, Serenity finds herself in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she unravels secrets that threaten to tear her and Daniel apart. But digging up the past is dangerous, and the quaint Amish settlement isn't as safe as it seems.

Rumspringa è il periodo in cui gli adolescenti amish sperimentano la vita fuori dalle regole della loro comunità, un momento di scoperte personali e di crescita. Ma un giorno una ragazza scompare senza lasciare traccia, e la paura si diffonde come un contagio. Un figlio scomparso è l'incubo di ogni genitore, tanto più in una società in cui i legami familiari sono così stretti, e quando la ricerca finisce tragicamente col ritrovamento del cadavere, il dipartimento di investigazione criminale è costretto a intervenire.

Emma Stutzman's Amish life was abruptly altered when she learned about her husband's sudden and tragic death. Now a single parent, Emma must figure out how to respond to the pressures of modernization and the pull of mainstream culture. Will she regain her strength as a woman after so much stress and tragedy in her married life? How will she lead her children to faith in the Amish Mennonite church without their father?

When the mutilated corpse of a young Amish woman is discovered in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams embarks on her most terrifying case yet, facing a killer unlike anything she’s seen before. Law enforcement and the Amish join forces to unravel the truth and find the person terrorizing the community, and just when Serenity thinks she’s solved the case, she finds out that the nightmare is far from over.

Painters Mill, venerdì 13. La notizia di una grande festa a base di alcol organizzata da minorenni amish mette in allarme Kate Burkholder e il suo piccolo dipartimento di polizia. A peggiorare le cose, un blackout costringe l'intera contea al buio. Nel cuore della notte, una chiamata porta Kate presso una fattoria abbandonata brulicante di musica e alcol, dove davanti agli occhi le si apre uno scenario agghiacciante: un'adolescente giace riversa a terra priva di sensi e con la testa sanguinante.

È autunno a Painters Mill, e la quattordicenne Kate Burkholder sta raccogliendo mele in compagnia dell'amica Mattie, quando una banda di ragazzi guidati da Billy Marquardt inizia a importunarle. Kate li ignora, mentre Mattie, violando le regole amish, scompare nel vecchio granaio con Billy. Qualche istante dopo, un incendio incenerisce il fienile. Billy nega di avere a che fare con l'incidente, ma Kate vuole vederci chiaro e in nome della verità inizia le sue indagini pur mettendo a repentaglio la sua amicizia con Mattie.

Tutti a Painters Mill sanno che sulla fattoria degli Hochstetler aleggia un tragico mistero. Ma solo in pochi ricordano il terribile segreto tramandato dal sospiro del tempo, ora riemerso dalle viscere della terra per perseguitarli. Quando un anziano viene ritrovato impiccato alle travi del suo fienile, il detective Kate Burkholder è chiamata a intervenire sulla scena di quello che sembrerebbe un suicidio. Eppure gli indizi non portano in quella direzione...

Gli Slabaugh sono una famiglia prospera e laboriosa della comunità amish. Ma un orribile incidente porta alla morte i genitori e lo zio, lasciando orfani i quattro ragazzi. Il capo della polizia Kate Burkholder, nata e cresciuta Amish, sa che per loro sarà ancora più duro perdere l'innocenza e affrontare il dolore. E quando scopre che una delle vittime ha subìto una ferita alla testa prima del decesso, si immerge con determinazione in un'indagine di omicidio, forse legato ai recenti casi di persecuzione della minoranza amish.