Paul L. Gaus, Author . Ohio Univ. $24.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1673-0
Amish teenagers run wild during Rumschpringe
, their time of testing in the outside "English" world, in Gaus's absorbing fifth entry in this powerful series (after 2003's Cast a Blue Shadow
). Eighteen-year-old Sara Yoder is torn...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author . Ohio Univ. $24.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1815-4
In Gaus's excellent sixth Ohio Amish mystery (after 2006's A Prayer for the Night
), Enos Erb, an Amish farmer, makes an unusual request of Michael Branden, burned-out history professor and amateur sleuth, given that the Amish practice...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author Ohio University Press $12.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1380-7
In this compact and tautly written mystery, the third in the series (after Blood of the Prodigal and Broken English), Gaus portrays vividly the clash of traditional Amish values with the forces of land development and greed. The author knows his
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P.L. Gaus. Ohio Univ., $24.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1967-0
A violent crime disrupts a peace-loving Amish community as well as the "English" (non-Amish) population of Ohio's Holmes County in Gaus's well-constructed seventh Amish-Country mystery (after 2008's Separate from the World). When a member of Bishop...
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P.L. Gaus. Plume, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-452-29819-4
In Gaus’s fine eighth novel set in the area of northeast Ohio where a large concentration of Amish and Mennonite families live (after 2011’s Harmless as Doves), coexisting more or less peacefully with their “Yankee” neighbors, the murder of Ruth...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author, P. L. Gaus, Author . Ohio Univ. Press $24.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1379-1
In this compact and tautly written mystery, the third in the series (after Blood of the Prodigal
and Broken English), Gaus portrays vividly the clash of traditional Amish values with the forces of land development and greed. The author knows his...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author, P. L. Gaus, Author . Ohio Univ. $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1530-6
In Gaus's fourth thoughtful Amish mystery (after 2001's Clouds Without Rain
), a blizzard tears into northern Ohio, devastating Millersburg College and the lives of many of the students and locals. Among the casualties is fabulously wealthy...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author, P. L. Gaus, Author Ohio University Press $12.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1277-0
In the Old Order Amish communities of Ohio's Holmes County, it is rare for one of the self-styled ""plain"" people to seek aid from an outsider, one of ""the English."" But Bishop Eli Miller needs help and goes for it to a local academic, Michael...
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Paul L. Gaus, Author, P. L. Gaus, Author Ohio University Press $24.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1276-3
In the Old Order Amish communities of Ohio's Holmes County, it is rare for one of the self-styled ""plain"" people to seek aid from an outsider, one of ""the English."" But Bishop Eli Miller needs help and goes for it to a local academic, Michael...
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