Amish-Country Mysteries

As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered. Their discussion of the odd details of the case is interrupted by a commotion on campus, which turns out to be the apparent suicide of a young college woman, who it seems has leapt to her death from the college bell tower. The investigations of these two deaths become intertwined as Professor Branden again teams up with Pastor Cal Troyer and Sheriff Bruce Robertson to seek explanations for these bizarre events. Set against the rift between two Amish factions, one participating in a college study of genetic traits particular to their community and the other rejecting any outside influence, Separate from the World takes us inside the culture and, in a manner both gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the "English" as their separate worlds intersect.

Amish-Country Mysteries

• 1.0  Blood Of The Prodigal by P. L. Gaus
  From the tranquil farmlands of Holmes County?s Amish countryside to the choppy waters off Lake Erie?s Middle Bass Island, mystery and foreboding lurk under layers of tradition and repression before boiling to the surface with tragic consequences.
• 2.0  Broken English by P. L. Gaus
• 3.0  Clouds Without Rain by P. L. Gaus
• 4.0  Cast A Blue Shadow by P. L. Gaus
• 5.0  A Prayer For The Night by P. L. Gaus
  Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the "English" world, a group of Amish teenagers on the Rumschpringe test the limits of their parent?s religion to the breaking point.
• 6.0  Separate From The World by P. L. Gaus