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Ohio University Press
July 2011
On Sale: July 1, 2011
206 pages
ISBN: 0821419676
EAN: 9780821419670
Kindle: B005C8R88M
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Inspirational | Mystery
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.
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