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Harmless as doves an Amish-country mystery
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- ISBN: 9780821443934 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0821443933 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780821419670
- ISBN: 0821419676
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1 online resource (viii, 193 p.) - Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.
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| Subject: | Branden, Michael (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Branden, Michael (Fictitious character) Amish Amish -- Fiction FICTION -- General Amish Country (Ohio) -- Fiction Ohio -- Amish Country |
| Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. Mystery fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
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. - Chicago Distribution Center
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.â
"An Amish murderer?" Sheriff Robertson asks when he arrives on the scene. ?Who will believe that?â 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.Thereâs 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 Spiegleâs 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. - Chicago Distribution Center
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. âI just killed Glenn Spiegle.â
âAn Amish murderer?â Sheriff Robertson asks when he arrives on the scene. âWho will believe that?â 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. Thereâs no way around itâProfessor 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 Spiegleâs 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.
