Suspendered Sentence

Authors: Bradford, Laura
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC022000, FIC022070
ISBN: 9780698148260, Related ISBNs: 0425273024, 0698148266, 9780425273029, 9780698148260
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Visit the Amish community of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, where shop owner Claire Weatherly has come to appreciate a simpler, more peaceful way of life. But dark secrets are about to complicate things in this novel in the Amish Mystery series.

After the Stoltzfus barn catches fire, Claire is awed by the response of the community. Hundreds of Amish men gather together to raise a new barn for the family in a matter of days. But in the midst of the work, a human skeleton is unearthed. Found with the remains is half of a friendship bracelet last seen on Sadie Lehman, an Amish teen long believed to have left her strict upbringing for the allure of English ways.

Now Detective Jakob Fisher—once a member of the Amish community himself—is determined to solve the young woman’s murder. With Claire’s help, he must dig into the past and bring to light long-buried secrets—secrets that someone is willing to kill to protect...
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