P. L. Gaus
P. L. Gaus is the author of seven books in the Amish-Country Mystery series. He lives in Wooster, Ohio, an area that is close to the world’s largest settlement of Amish and Mennonite people. Gaus lectures widely about the lifestyles, culture, and religion of the Amish..
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Author of…
Harmless as Doves
An Amish–Country Mystery
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.…
Separate from the World
An Ohio Amish Mystery
As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered.…
A Prayer for the Night
An Ohio Amish Mystery
Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the “English” world, a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test the limits of their parents' religion to the breaking point.…
Cast a Blue Shadow
An Ohio Amish Mystery
“The author portrays the conflicts among the various Amish sects whose varying degrees of strictness in some instances cause them to shun each other. Eschewing any academic pedantry, Gaus manages to expertly enlighten as well as entertain.”—Publishers Weekly
Clouds Without Rain
An Ohio Amish Mystery
“Gaus is a sensitive storyteller who matches his cadences to the measured pace of Amish life, catching the tensions among the village‘s religious factions.”—The New York Times Book Review
Broken English
An Ohio Amish Mystery
The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim.…
Blood of the Prodigal
An Ohio Amish Mystery
“No one who enjoys a fresh approach to the mystery novel, plus an insider’s look at Ohio’s Old Order Amish culture, should miss Blood of the Prodigal. P. L. Gaus gives us a kind, gentle, and intriguing look at crime inside Ohio’s famous Amish colony.”—Tony Hillerman
- William G. Gambill Jr.
- Patricia M. Gantt
Editor of the five-volume Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers… - Charles F. Ganzert
Professor in the Communication and Performance Studies Department at Northern Michigan University… - Kristine Ottesen Garrigan
- Jean Garrigue
- Carmela Garritano
Associate professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota… - P. L. Gaus
Author of seven books in the Amish-Country Mystery series… - Ezekiel Gebissa
Assistant professor of history at Kettering University… - Jean Gebser
- Ellen Bromfield Geld
Novelist who has operated a farm in Brazil for several decades… - Lee Gerlach
Author of several collections of poetry… - Frank X. Gerrity
Professor of American history at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, specializing in the diplomatic history of the United States… - Trevor R. Getz
- Jan-Bart Gewald
- S. A. Giannakos
- James L. Giblin
Associate professor of history at the University of Iowa… - Mary Ellis Gibson
Professor of English at the University of Glasgow and Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English Emerita at University of North Carolina Greensboro… - Erik Gilbert
Assistant professor of history at Arkansas State University… - Tamara Giles-Vernick
- Daniel Gilfoyle
- Ooi Keat Gin
- Dimitri Ginev
Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia… - George Gissing
- Clive Glaser
- Jane Glaubinger
- Alan G. Gless
- David M. Gold
- Lameck K. H. Goma
Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Zambia… - Ray Gonzalez
- David M. Gordon
Associate professor of history at Bowdoin College… - David M. Gordon
Associate professor of history at Bowdoin College… - Robert J. Gordon
- David Goslee
- Ken’ichi Goto
Professor of international relations at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies and a former director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo… - Isabelle Gournay
Associate professor of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Le Nouveau Trocadéro and the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta… - H. Roger Grant
- Jason Gray
Author of two chapbooks of poetry, How to Paint the Savior Dead, winner of the Wick Chapbook Award, and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo… - Leslie C. Gray
Associate professor of environmental studies at Santa Clara University… - Laura Morgan Green
Assistant professor in the English department at Northeastern University… - Sally Greene
Independent scholar affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… - Marilyn S. Greenwald
Professor of journalism at Ohio University… - Donald J. Greiner
Professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of South Carolina… - Deborah Griffith
Managing editor of Bird Watcher's Digest and other publications from BWD Press… - Anne Grimes
- George Grinnell
- Rajko Grlić
Born in 1947 in Zagreb, Croatia, and graduated from the FAMU Film Academy in Prague… - Jan Gross
- Norman Gross
Former director of the ABA Museum of Law in Chicago and the editor of America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office… - Janet Groth
Emeritus professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh… - Donna Sue Groves
- Donna Sue Groves
- John de Gruchy
Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies and Director of the Religion and Social Change Unit in the University of Cape Town… - Albert Grundlingh
Professor of history at the University of Stellenbosch… - Bill Guest
- Carlos Guevara Mann
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada Reno… - Geoffrey C. Gunn
- Mat Gunther
- Elissa S. Guralnick
- Harry Gwala
