A gossip is gagged for good in this mystery that combines โa well-informed look into the tranquil world of the Amish with a fairly edgy puzzlerโ (Kirkus Reviews).
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When a newspaperman is murdered in the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, Rachel Mast digs up the dirt to find out who wanted to bury the leadโฆ
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Although she left her Old Order Amish ways in her youth, Rachel discovered corporate life in the English world to be complicated and unfulfilling. Having returned to Stone Mill, sheโs happy to be running her own B&B. But sheโs also learningโin more ways than oneโthat the past is not always so easily left behind.
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After local newspaperman Bill Billingsly is found gagged and tied to his front porch, left to freeze overnight in a snowstorm, Detective Evan ParksโRachelโs beauโuncovers a file of scandalous information Billingsly intended to publish, including a record of Rachel pleading no contest to charges of corporate misconduct. Though Evan is certain of her innocence, itโs up to Rachel to find the real killer. A closer examination of the victimโs unpublished report leads Rachel to believe the Amish community is far from sinless. But if sheโs not careful her obituary might be the next to appear in printโฆ