As the World Churns: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery
by By Myers, Tamar
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , Women Sleuths

Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder is finally Magdalena Yoder Rosen - but with a cow competition in Hernia causing a stampede of trouble, she's finding that married life isn't all cream...Magdalena may be married to big-time Manhattan doctor Gabriel Rosen, but she's still a small-town girl with an eye for an udder, and thrilled to be the emcee for the first annual Hernia Holstein Competition. As a bonus, the PennDutch and its barn are booked solid - though she prefers the bovine guests to several of the humans. But then someone clobbers the contest's originator, Doc Shafor, while he's admiring the cows, and Magdalena ends up in the hospital as well, when she faints at his bedside.Gabriel knows as much about cows as he does about baling hay, but he gamely agrees to stand in as emcee. But when Magdalena recovers, she finds that the competition has been cut short, and that both Gabriel and her foster daughter, Alison, are missing. With the help of her best friend (and the hindrance of her mother-in-law), Magdalena begins to separate the curds from the whey, and vows to track down clues until the cows - and her family - come home.