This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in the true "Amish experience," (read: doing Magdalena's chores and paying top dollar for the opportunity!). When one of her more reclusive guests takes a tumble down the PennDutch's picturesquely steep staircase and breaks his neck, the timing couldn't be worse. It's the start of hunting season – and her inn is packed...

Life has been tough of late for the proprietress of the PennDutch Inn, Magdalena Yoder. Her husband turned out to be a bigamist, the guest list for her recently rebuilt PennDutch Inn is not as robust as she'd like, and her sister plans to marry her arch nemesis. So Magdalena Yoder is not in a good mood and she's more than happy to let everyone in town know exactly how she feels.Fortunately, a group of World War II veterans once stationed in Africa...

Cornelious Weaver, one of Hernia's most eligible bachelors, is due to finally tie the knot-but three days before the big wedding, he's found dead…in another woman's bed!! The scandal is better than a made-for-TV-movie-not that any of the good citizens of Hernia own a television-and the details get even more delicious: Cornelious wasn't just cheating on his bride-to-be; he was carrying on affairs all over town! When the coroner's report reveals that...

Conman Clarence Webber career has been long and very lucrative-until he landed himself in Hernia's jail, and is promptly poisoned. Since Magdalena's PennDutch Inn provides all of the meals for Hernia's tiny jail, all eyes are on her. She retraces Webber's criminal path through Pennsylvania-and even Maryland! She soon discovers that he left a long list of victims, all with good reason to try to do the conman in! With the reputation of her beloved PennDutch...

"Round and round she goes, blonde pigtails flying, her high-pitched giggle catching on the wind. But as the ride slows to a stop, her seat is suddenly empty. Little Lucy is gone.. When seven-year-old Lucy Ross is snatched from the carousel in Denton city park, Detective Josie Quinn joins the frantic search. She's the one who finds Lucy's sparkly butterfly backpack abandoned by the ticket booth, a note with a devastating message stuffed inside: answer...

Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass. Then the mist parts--just for a second--to reveal a beautiful young girl on the ground, her pale lips frozen forever in a silent scream...On a winding mountain road into the small town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the...