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Area author pens mystery
about amateur Amish sleuth
BOOK REVIEW
Sunday, January 26, 2003
BY MARY O. BRADLEY
Of The Patriot-News
Hannah Miller is a spunky Amish grandmother who reads murder mysteries borrowed from the local library in Lancaster County.
Fondly known as "Granny Hanny," the spry 70-year-old enjoys making quilts, and, in her spare time, helping her formerly Amish granddaughter, Caroline, who is now a lawyer, solve real-life crimes.
When well-known local antiques dealer Annette Adams is stabbed to death, Hannah and Caroline fear the incompetence of Chelsea Twp.'s acting police chief, Kiel Benton, will hinder the search for the culprit, so they set out to solve the case in Barbara Workinger's whodunit, "In Dutch Again: An Amish Country Mystery" (1stBooks Library, $8.50).
Compounding the mystery is the unsolved disappearance of Annette's husband, Bob Adams, who vanished three months earlier.
Annette's twin sister, Jennet, a famous fashion commentator with a television program, returns home with Ian Hunter, a British journalist working for NBC television. Throw into the mix Annette's ex-husband, Peter Drew, their rebellious teenage daughter, Kaitlin, and Annette's neighbors, the unmarried snoopy sisters Annie and Sadie Shoop, and the list of suspects is longer than the line at an Amish quilt sale.
Ready in the wings to help Hannah and Caroline is Caroline's estranged husband, Stephen Brown, who gave up a law career to take over the family hardware store.
Workinger, a California native who lives in Derry Twp., has fashioned a tip-top local murder mystery, so "otten" the lights, curl up and enjoy this 164-page novel at vonct. It's vonderful goot fun.
MARY O. BRADLEY: 255-8147
or mbradley@patriot-news.com
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