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Amish Country (Ohio) Fiction Amish Fiction Branden, Michael (Fictitious character) Fiction Caterers and catering Fiction Cookery Fiction Fairchild, Faith Sibley (Fictitious character) Fiction Massachusetts Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Ohio Fiction Women in the food industry FictionGaus, Paul L.
Summary: " P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In Whiskers of the Lion, Sheriff Bruce Robertsonis charged with finding a young Amish woman on the run from a murderous drug ring so she can testify in federal court. Wrestling with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUGaus, Paul L.
Summary: Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUGaus, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006
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Summary: When an Amish, or "plain" boy is kidnapped, Bishop Eli Miller reluctantly seeks help from outsiders, the "vain ones" known as English. Pastor Caleb Troyer and Professor Michael Branden, boyhood friends and lifelong residents of the county the Amish and English share, understand better than anyone that the bishop would not have enlisted their help unless it were a matter of gravest concern, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: Trained by the U.S. military to kill, "English" outsider David Hawkins came to the quiet town of Millersburg and found salvation among the pacifist Amish. But Hawkins' fragile tranquility is shattered when a marauding ex-convict descends on Millersburg, unleashing a wave of violence whose casualties include an investigative journalist and Hawkins' only daughter. Now Sheriff Bruce Robertson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: Professor Michael Branden, newly deputized to the Holmes County sheriff's department, gives every outward appearance of being Amish. His assignment: to act as a decoy in Bruce Robertson's investigation of a series of robberies among - and perhaps by - the Peaceful Ones. Suddenly Branden's undercover work is interrupted by grave news. An Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler have collided, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Summary: When an Amish man seeks help from Professor Michael Branden about the bizarre death of his brother, the apparent suicide of a woman on campus deepens the mystery as he searches for the connection between the two people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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Summary: An Amish man exiled from his community in Ohio for fast living, returns to kidnap his son from his grandparents. Sleuth and professor Michael Branden is hired to find the boy, only to learn that the father has been murdered and the boy is missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 1999
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Summary: After a vicious murder in the heart of Amish Country, Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to catch a killer in the peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2010
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Summary: A fatal accident involving a semi and an Amish buggy starts Professor Michael to search for a connection to a string of other cirmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2001
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Summary: "Sara Yoder is learning that danger can lurk in freedom's shadow. John Schlabaugh and Abe Yoder - Sara's friends and fellow travelers on the Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe - are missing. Worried, but distrustful of most English, Sara calls Pastor Cal Troyer for help. Then Sara also disappears. Troyer, along with his old friends Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAUAult, Sandi.
Summary: After witnessing a dramatic death in the Gorge, Jamaica Wild examines a secret, ancient religious group that reenacts Jesus' crucifixion and practices excessive penance, but is warned not to investigate too closely when someone makes an attempt on her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AULLelchuk, Saul
Summary: "Nikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore's shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she also tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to love. And Nikki likes to teach those men a lesson, to teach them what it feels like to be hurt and helpless, so she can be sure that their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lelchuk 2019Page, Katherine Hall.
Summary: Distracted from her impending nuptials by two mysteries--the disappearance of her new assistant and a saboteur at her sister's job--Faith Fairchild soon discovers that someone will stop at nothing to keep her from walking down the aisle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: Caterer and part-time investigator Faith Fairchild is lured to a private island along with a group of college classmates, one of whom their host believes is responsible for the death of her sister thirty years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Summary: While tracking a wounded mountain lion on a desolate canyon rim, Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild and her wolf, Mountain, discover the desecrated body of an old Anglo woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: Aleford, Massachusetts. The Fairchild family is in lockdown mode as the pandemic spreads. Tom continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. In the midst of one Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: At a party in New York, caterer Faith Sibley Fairchild meets a school friend, now married to an ambitious politician. The lady is being blackmailed by someone threatening to reveal her past which would ruin her husband. Faith goes to work and uncovers a killer. By the author of The Body in the Bookcase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1999
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Summary: Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson Gale 2007
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Summary: "When a young man is found gruesomely murdered on a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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Summary: Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When overwhelming tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: "The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue. For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His caterer wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman that is somehow connected to an abandoned, newborn baby boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009