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![]() | Harmless as Doves (2011) (The seventh book in the Ohio Amish Mystery series) A novel by P L Gaus |
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.
Genre: Mystery
'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.
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for P L Gaus's Harmless as Doves
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Hardback Editions
June 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Harmless as Doves Author(s): P. L. Gaus ISBN: 0-8214-1967-6 / 978-0-8214-1967-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Ohio University Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Harmless as Doves: An Amish-Country Mystery (Amish-Country Mysteries) Author(s): P. L. Gaus ISBN: 0-452-29786-9 / 978-0-452-29786-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Plume Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
June 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Harmless as Doves (The Amish-Country Mysteries) Author(s): P. L. Gaus Publisher: Ohio University Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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