Even before she heard of Owen Esch’s death, Hannah Troyer knew something was amiss at The Cat’s Meow yarn shop. The store has been closing at odd times, the ever-dependable Mary isn’t always at her post . . . and an Englisch man has been seen loitering around back.
Now, as leaves of brown, gold, and orange blanket Middlebury, Indiana, Owen lies dead on the Pumpkinvine Trail. The only clues to the murderer’s identity point in two very different directions—one of them leading right to The Cat’s Meow.
The police call in a federal investigator, but Hannah and Village manager Amber Bowman are in no mood to wait for them to figure out what they already know—that no one from the Amish Village could have killed Owen Esch.
Amber and Hannah will need to work quickly to solve the murder mystery and bring harmony back to the Amish community.
The Village is a place where the Amish and the Englisch (as the Amish call them) work side by side, and to a certain extent it is more like an extended family for Amber Bowman (her own sister says that Hannah who runs to coffee shop is like the little sister they wished they had), so everyone is stunned when a local Amish man who has just arrived back (but not yet baptised) ends up dead by cross bow bolt on the local path, the last thing was a message he was sending to Mary at the yarn shop. Mary has been secretive of late and Amber and Hannah are hoping she hasn't got into something dangerous.
As well as this Hannah's beau (Jesse) is twitching because his brother has arrived back ….. again, he arrives and then leaves throwing the family out, the problem is he arrived shortly before Owen Esch was killed and so the out of State police are looking at him as suspect #1, now Amber, Hannah, Jesse and Amber's assistant Pam need to figure out what is going on so that Andrew (Jesse's brother) doesn't take the fall for a cold blooded killer.
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