Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries with recipes

Magdalena Yoder, chaste and abstemious proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, agrees to let a Hollywood crew film at the inn – for an exorbitant price, of course. But when the assistant director is found pinned to a barn post with a farming tool, dimwitted local police chief, Marvin Stoltzfus fingers Magdalena as his prime suspect. Now it's time for Magdalena to use her extraordinary Amish sleuthing skills to reveal the real killer – before...

A twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't magdalena Yoder's idea of a great wedding present from future father-in-law. Expecially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born Magdalena, owner of the picturesque PennDutch Inn, in a pickle. She has just one week before she ties the knot with the man of her dreams-and this bride of forty-four will allow nothing to delay her nuptials, even murder.

Tucked away in a picturesque corner of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Magdalena Yoder's PenDutch Inn is a treat, and the perect locale for a cooking contest. Unfortunately, as magdalena discovers when a corpse is found in the bar, some food is to die for.

Barbara Hostetler was having triplets. And no one was more excited than wily grandma-to-be Freni. But when Barbara went into labor and only two were born, Freni couldn't accept that it was just a doctor's mistake. She insisted on a recount.

Magdalena Yoder ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, succumbs after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and she sets out to find the killer who poisoned the porridge.

Hoping to put her culinary skills to work for the celebration of the bicentennial of Hernia, Pennsylvania, innkeeper Magdalena Yoder finds the festivities cut short when one of her guests, Buzzy Porter, is found murdered.

Feelings run high in the Mennonite community of Hernia, Pennsylvania, when an unscrupulous outside group attempts to open a winery in town, and Magdalena Yoder is forced to step in when the vineyard's manager is found entombed in cement.

When eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livengood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.

Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder is at the bank with her four-year-old son when three armed Amish men burst in and start shooting and more surprisingly cursing. Magdalena protects Little Jacob, and the robbers flee at the sound of police sirens. When Jacob wonders why the bandits had mustaches, unlike all the other Amish men he knows, Magdalena springs into action to catch the thieves. They may be armed, but they may not be Amish!

While trying to welcome British royalty to her PennDutch inn and acquaint them with traditional American culture, Magdalena Yoder embarrassingly discovers a mummified corpse in the elevator shaft .

"The annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival is the undisputed highlight of Hernia's social calendar. But when Magdalena Yoder, village mayor and owner of the PennDutch Inn, had the brainwave four years ago, little did she realize that it would soon attract visitors from far and wide-even Australia, as the unexpected arrival of Gabe's long-lost cousin, Miriam, at the inn confirms. Unfortunately, the shock of Miriam's one-legged appearance is soon usurped...

Sausages to kill for . . . The competition to go into business with Hernia's finest sausage makers is getting hotter than Magdalena Yoder's frying pan in this sizzling culinary cozy. Schmucker Brothers' Sausages are the talk of the town. The good folk of Hernia are obsessed with the delectable meaty treats, and the prospect of going into partnership with the brothers is proving equally irresistible to investors far and wide, including Magdalena Yoder's...