Amish Thriller

When Rebecca Troyer's childhood friend brings news that his father has been murdered, she's not sure what shocks her the most - the news of the murder, or seeing her old chum Jeremiah Fisher grown tall and handsome. Though she is skeptical at first, Rebecca agrees to investigate, and she soon finds herself suspecting foul play as well.

When Ettie and her sister Elsa-May find a dead body, they discover it is the third victim of a serial killer. Evidence found at the scene suggests the killer is Amish. To clear her friends in the community, Ettie sets out to investigate. Her estranged daughter Myra, determined to make a career for herself as a true crime novelist, joins her on her mission, stirring up strife in the process.

The last thing Jane expected was to meet Cherri, her ex-husband’s new wife, but that’s exactly what happens. It’s bad enough that Jane’s Amish sister has a broken arm, so Jane has to run the cupcake store with dubious help from feisty octogenarians Matilda and Eleanor and naughty little cat Mr. Crumbles...but Cherri wants Jane’s help in solving a murder.

When Rebecca is accused of murder - all over Amish sour cream spice cupcakes - it’s the start of another thrilling mystery for Jane Delight. Jane is eager to clear Rebecca's name, but with brooding Detective Damon McCloud wanting to whisk her away from the suspects, she’s in for the adventure of a lifetime. Can Jane, Mr. Crumbles the cat, and Jane's meddlesome octogenarian roommates, Matilda and Eleanor, cook up a plan save the day? Or is this mystery going to end in heart-bake?

Living in the small town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, Claire Weatherly has come to admire the Amish for their wholesome, honest way of life. But she also knows that nothing is as simple as it seems - especially when murder disturbs the peace.

When Leah Miller's entire Amish family was murdered ten years ago, the person believed responsible took his own life. Since then, Leah left the Amish and joined the police force. Now, after another Amish woman is found murdered with the same MO, it becomes clear that the wrong man may have been blamed for her family's deaths.

A volte, tra la vittima e il carnefice, la linea di confine può essere molto sottile... La pacifica comunità amish di Painters Mill, in Ohio, è scossa da un omicidio: la sessantenne Mary Yoder è stata brutalmente accoltellata nei pressi della sua fattoria, mentre raccoglieva noci con le sue nipoti. Proprio una di loro, Elsie Helmuth, di sette anni, viene rapita dall'assassino. La famiglia della bambina è rispettata da tutta la comunità, eppure, quando il capo della polizia Kate Burkholder incontra i genitori della piccola, capisce che nascondono qualcosa.

Evil in My Town is a dark and tension-filled installment to the Serenity's Plain Secrets' mystery/crime thriller series. After a tragic mass shooting in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams is shocked to discover ties to the local Amish settlement, and her teenage niece, who barely survived the carnage. The investigation takes her from the terror of a massacre to an equally horrific crime relating to a missing woman in the community.

Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason. But with her husband’s passing, it’s time to come home. Reconnecting with her family means dealing with her past: the father she abandoned and the community she left behind. Her one escape is serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. But when the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death - with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young - Abbie is called into action.

When the mutilated corpse of a young Amish woman is discovered in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams embarks on her most terrifying case yet, facing a killer unlike anything she’s seen before. Law enforcement and the Amish join forces to unravel the truth and find the person terrorizing the community, and just when Serenity thinks she’s solved the case, she finds out that the nightmare is far from over.

Tutti a Painters Mill sanno che sulla fattoria degli Hochstetler aleggia un tragico mistero. Ma solo in pochi ricordano il terribile segreto tramandato dal sospiro del tempo, ora riemerso dalle viscere della terra per perseguitarli. Quando un anziano viene ritrovato impiccato alle travi del suo fienile, il detective Kate Burkholder è chiamata a intervenire sulla scena di quello che sembrerebbe un suicidio. Eppure gli indizi non portano in quella direzione...

Gli Slabaugh sono una famiglia prospera e laboriosa della comunità amish. Ma un orribile incidente porta alla morte i genitori e lo zio, lasciando orfani i quattro ragazzi. Il capo della polizia Kate Burkholder, nata e cresciuta Amish, sa che per loro sarà ancora più duro perdere l'innocenza e affrontare il dolore. E quando scopre che una delle vittime ha subìto una ferita alla testa prima del decesso, si immerge con determinazione in un'indagine di omicidio, forse legato ai recenti casi di persecuzione della minoranza amish.

Painter's Creek, nell'Ohio, è una cittadina rurale silenziosa in cui coabitano una comunità amish e una inglese; ma è anche il luogo in cui, sedici anni prima, si è consumata una serie di brutali omicidi. Kate Burkholder, che all'epoca era solo una ragazzina, è scampata in extremis dall'essere uccisa; ma quell'esperienza le ha lasciato un senso di terribile fragilità, di perdita di innocenza, e la sensazione di non appartenere più alla comunità in cui viveva. E, da quel giorno, il killer si è misteriosamente fermato.

Il ritrovamento del corpo senza vita di Rachel Esh, una quindicenne appartenente alla comunità amish di Roaring Springs, sconvolge l'apparente normalità di una contea sperduta tra i boschi dell'Ohio. Kate Burkholder, stimato capo della polizia di Painters Mill e profonda conoscitrice di quella gente, viene contattata dallo sceriffo della contea, incapace di valicare il muro di segreti e menzogne dietro il quale la comunità si è trincerata.

Everyone at the Sweet Shop Bakery and the Irish Blessings Cafe is worrying over Bella and her baby and busily trying to convince her to take it easy. Katie is not the only person in town with some big decisions ahead of her. And the busy summer season kicks off with a big surprise for everyone.

When dead mobsters start turning up in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams joins forces with a new recruit, a US marshal, and her ex-partner to solve the cases, but can she trust any of them? Her old partner, Ryan Donavan, is not acting like himself, and Serenity fears he's keeping secrets. For all of his politeness, there's something about Officer Jerome Wilson that doesn't ring true, and Marshall Bryant always has his own agenda. Throw in the Moretti mafia family, a Mexican drug cartel, and a hillbilly moonshine making clan, and Serenity has her hands full.

A young boy's freak accident leads Riley Spartz to investigate a homicide in the closed religious society of the Amish. No women near the small Minnesota town have been reported missing and because the victim's face is damaged, she can't be identified without the help of a forensic artist. When she finally is recognized as Sarah Yoder, a young Amish woman, the police have difficulty investigating the case because the Amish believe in forgiveness rather than prosecution, and no one in the community is talking.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Corporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture - the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day. Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men.

SFX: Ker-flush "That's the sound of my career going down the toilet. Three months ago, I was the freelance reporter to call for full-color images of an international crisis. Now? I'm stationed at the far edge of the Chicago flyover as a disappointing mother-sub to my eight-year-old niece and the babysitter for a newsroom College Boy. One photo of the lifeless man was all I needed to see - there's more to this story than anyone wants to admit."

Amelia Simpkins may be a great cook, and have a head for business, but sweet treats are out of her league and the owner of the Irish Blessings Cafe says it's because she adds the tart to the Sweet Shop's new dessert that Katie Chupp insists is only filled with lemony goodness. The two shop owners' constant bickering sends sparks flying through Abbott Creek's usual calm...and this is one mystery Katie wants no part of, but working for Mrs. Simpkins may put her in the middle - whether she intends to take sides...or not.