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...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is 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 Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a family secret swept under their proverbial Am...

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...

In this historical mystery set in Iowa, Gracie Evans isn't happy with all the excitment at the Moser Mansion for Women Rest Home in Locked Rock, Iowa. Molly Moser, owner of the mansion, is marrying the butter and egg man in the back yard. The residents can bring a relative to escort them to the wedding. Melinda Applegate puts a notice in a newspaper column to find some kin. A stranger shows up claiming to be her long lost nephew. Melinda believes Jeffrey Armstrong, but Gracie thinks the ma...

Katrina Sibowski has inherited a gift from her grandmother she doesn't want or understand. Gift is what her grandmother, Libby Sibowski, calls the women in the Sibowski family's ability to have second sight. This revelation catches Katrina by complete surprise. Her mother, Vencil, is uneasy around her mother-in-law because of her powers. She knew there was a fifty-fifty chance Katrina might inherit second sight, but she didn't warn her daughter. Katrina's grandmother is the granny woman he...

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...

Though Gracie Evans is tired of listening to all the town gossips, she begins to worry when they talk about a stranger in town. The man is living with a friend of Gracie's, Addie Masters. Seems he is the elderly woman's son that none of the gossips knew about.When Addie stops attending church, Gracie and the other residents from Moser Mansion wonder if she's ailing. They decide to visit her. A first hand look at Addie's rude son and seeing a wicked bruise on Addie's hand gets Graci...

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 brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with this second story in the Stringbean Hooper series about his adventures in the West. Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they would get into. Mishaps like upset Indians, a flood, a mad bear, a crazy woman with prairie fever and more happen to the Hoopers. Through it all, Stringbean meets the challenges with his usual sense of humor, b...