Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part...

Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print. That didn't stop thenewspaper from selling more copies, because everyone had to find out if they were in thegossip column each week. Shortly after two women were mentioned in the gossip columnthey were murde...

Joy Petermeyer took to the Amish wise woman, Adalheida Wasser, right off. When the elderly woman wasn't feeling well Joy volunteered to do her chores which consisted of a menagerie of wild animals and four expecting quarter horses. When it looked like her health might not improve Adalheida was adamant that she make Joy her hired hand and pay her. At home, Aunt Tootie is in a dither again. A woman she's known for years comes to visit from Titonka, Iowa. Bernice Wittstone is bossy and partic...

This book gives you two stories in one. First, a stranger has been seen driving around the Amish Community. He sits so far back on the seat no one has been able to get a good look at him. Everyone is on edge. The stranger seems to be looking for someone, but who?While women worked in the kitchen after the church service, they discussed the stranger. The women decided it would be a good idea to take their children to school so the children wouldn't be out on the country roads alone w...

1895 was the year life as a grownup began for Lilly Baker Elliot when she took notice of Tom Elliot, a handsome bachelor farmer. He began to spend time in her parents general store, not knowing what he wanted to buy. It became very clear to Lilly that he just wanted to spend time with her. Lilly was a bright fifteen year old, and Tom was twenty three. For Lilly's mother, Bernice, this was a match she had been working toward for years by showering Lilly with fashionable clothes to catch the...

Joy Petermeyer took to the Amish wise woman, Adalheida Wasser, right off. When the elderly woman wasn't feeling well Joy volunteered to do her chores which consisted of a menagerie of wild animals and four expecting quarter horses. When it looked like her health might not improve Adalheida was adamant that she make Joy her hired hand and pay her. At home, Aunt Tootie is in a dither again. A woman she's known for years comes to visit from Titonka, Iowa. Bernice Wittstone is bossy and partic...

Police Detective Renee Brown is keeping Wedgewood, Minnesota safe. This time the problems are happening on Marceil Pestkey's block. Detective Brown dreads those calls. Marceil Pestkey thinks she can get partial treatment since she's Renee's mother's best friend. Ordinarily, the calls coming in to the dispatcher at night would be handled by the night duty officer. Not when Marceil Pestkey is making the call. She asks for Detective Brown. The drunk riding a cow home in the middle of the nigh...

Fay Risner has been a fan of Dr. James Herriot's ever since she read his Yorkshire Dales, England series. For over forty-five years, Fay jotted down notes about tending her livestock. Some of the stories in her book are heartwarming. Others are sad, and still others are humorous.

Gracie Evans, resident of Moser Mansion, and Locked Rock, Iowa native, has become a women's activist. The newspaper is full of stories about how women in the east are burning their corsets to draw attention to the fact they want the right to vote. Gracie talks the women's bible group into joining Carry A. Nation's fight for prohibition. The women organize a Temperance march with Ida Frank as the leader. They march to Main Street with hatchets, planning to bust up the saloon. Sheriff Earl B...

If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems to be the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven law. She couldn't imagine a runaway girl, Annie Hosteller, showing up on her doorstep, either. Once Nurse Hal is forced to meet the scary men from the Hosteller compound life isn't the same for the Amish community for months to come. In the mi...

Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a large family, but she's been offered the teacher's job for a term. That means working away from home and leaving Nurse Hal to take care of the household while she's still trying to perfect her cooking skills. That worries Emma. She doesn't think Nur...

Fay Risner takes readers on a emotional journey into a tender, original story set in the rolling hills of southern Iowa. A story that’s heartwarming, romantic and a mystery.Home Health nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he’s in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma suffers from depression. Noah is withdraw...