WHISKERS OF THE LION

P.L. Gaus’s acclaimed Amish-Country Mystery series continues when an Amish woman in mortal peril inspires a disappearing act so genius that it might be beyond the law.

A young Amish woman’s unwitting actions have made her the target of a murderous drug ring. Fannie Helmuth has for months been hiding in plain sight among her people in the scattered Amish communities of America. When her traveling companion is caught and murdered by the cartel that won’t stop at a single revenge killing, confrontation looms in Holmes County, Ohio, between the law and the lawless.

Sheriff Bruce Robertson, whose struggle with the case plays out in dreams of a deadly lion he hasn’t had since childhood, finds himself caged by the bounds of morality. Charged with finding the elusive young woman and getting her into protective custody so that she can testify in federal court, the sheriff and his deputies must weigh the benefits of the legal system they uphold against the customs of the county.

Paul Louis Gaus lives with his wife in Wooster, Ohio, just a few miles north of Holmes County, where the world’s largest and most varied settlement of Amish and Mennonite people is found, and about whom Paul lectures widely.