Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery

by P.L. Gaus

Book Overview

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. Their discussion of the odd details of the case is interrupted by a commotion on campus, which turns out to be the apparent suicide of a young woman, who, it seems, has leapt to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821418149
• ISBN13: 9780821418147
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Separate from this World .

Very interesting book. I may read more in the future. I love the Amish fiction.

Fantasic

All amish books are fantasic I wish I could find more books to read . I have read every Amish fiction out The Time Cavern (The Time Cavern Series)

Interesting Ohio Amish mystery

[[ASIN:0821418157 Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery This is the sixth book in a series by Gaus. It reminds me of the Hillerman books about SW Native Americans, in that a good story is used to convey understanding about various aspects of a different element (in this case Amish) of American culture. Most of the books in the series are quite good, although the second, Broken English, dove too deeply into technical aspects of weaponry and destroyed the focus on the human element. Separate from the World cleverly shows the conflicts within the Amish community over dealing with science and the "English" (the non-Amish).