Rachel Mast and her cousin, Mary Aaron along with a bunch of other Amish girls, are taking a refreshing swim in a quarry pool when they discover the body of Beth Glick, a young Amish woman who was shunned by the community two years earlier. So why is she wearing traditional Amish clothing? PLAIN KILLING is filled with mystery and suspense. It is going to pull you right in and never let you go until the very last page.

The Amish community closes ranks and refuses to communicate with police. They do not believe in revenge. They believe in forgiveness. Rachel steps in to help her boyfriend detective Evan Park to find out why Beth was killed and by whom. Rachel used to be Amish but before she was baptized she left to become English. She came back three years ago to open a bed and breakfast in her home town. Because she left before she was baptized she was not shunned and for the most part, is welcome among the Amish.

Following a few leads, Rachel and Mary Aaron find themselves in New Orleans. It is funny when one of the waitresses asks Mary Aaron if she is from the show Breaking Amish and wants her autograph. Mary Aaron insists on staying in her Amish clothing which is only drawing attention to herself. As they dig deeper into the secrets of the Amish community and in particular the Glick family, the horrors only deepen. Would they discover who the killer was? Was there a link to the other young people who left their community?

PLAIN KILLING has twists and turns that I was totally not expecting. Most times, you can guess what is going to happen or at least have some semblance of an idea in these types of books. Not with this one. Just when you think you have it figured out who the "bad guy" is, something else happens to throw you off course. The ending was phenomenal. The murderer was a total shock to me and It was someone I so did not want it to be. Very emotional and engaging. I would rate PLAIN KILLING a real page turner!

Book Summary

When the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, refuses to discuss a murder with the police, it's up to Rachel Mast to bridge the cultural gap and stop a killer from striking again. . .

While swimming in a local quarry, Rachel and her cousin Mary Aaron discover the body of an Amish girl, fully clothed in her white bonnet, floating face down in the water. The drowned young woman, Beth Glick, had left Stone Mill and her Old Order Amish life a year ago, causing her to be shunned by her family and her people.

But if Beth had joined the English world, why was she found dressed in Amish clothing and strangled? Rachel's boyfriend, police detective Evan Park, is getting nowhere with questioning Beth's family. He's also troubled over the fate of three other Amish girls who left Stone Mill in the last two years. As someone who gave up the Plain lifestyle herself then returned to operate a B&B, Rachel is able to use her ties to the community to learn more about the missing girls. But when her search eventually leads to the dark underbelly of the secular world, Rachel finds her own life in dire jeopardy. . .