Pennsylvania Crime

Magdalena Yoder, chaste and abstemious proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, agrees to let a Hollywood crew film at the inn. 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.

Coal Country Killing revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice.

Young Amishman Jedidiah Troyer is now a traveler. He's signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania. He just wants to start a farm and homestead on affordable land in a new Amish community. Space pioneering isn't as easy as it sounds when you're "plain."

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson. Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired...

After publishing his third novel, Motor City Burning (Pegasus Books, 2014), Bill Morris turned his attention to researching, remembering and reliving some of the spectacularly lurid stories he covered in Chambersburg nearly forty years ago. These included arson, rape, murder, kidnapping, attempted suicide, the paranormal, prison breaks - all of it leavened by the more prosaic aspects of life in a picturesque small town in central Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley. He has now collected his memories - along with explorations into the slippery nature of memory - in a non-fiction book he's ...

In the shadows of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a clandestine empire emerged—one that would become synonymous with the essence of organized crime. The Bufalino Mafia Crime Family takes you on a gripping journey through the tumultuous history of the notorious Bufalino crime syndicate. This meticulously researched and fascinating narrative unveils the hidden layers of a mafia family that left an indelible mark on American criminal history.

Harley Fremont and her K-9 partner, Gemma, are called when twenty-four men attend camp but only twenty-two are accounted for. The five-mile trail between camp and the hotel on the outskirts of town is complicated. It's not a forest-made trail that is easy to follow; it is rocky in places, making tracking difficult. The trail is also riddled with tree branches and roots, making the hike dangerous. Plus, the trail has a dozen man-made off-shoot paths with their own man-made off-shoot paths. The trail condition leads people to think the two missing men simply lost their way back to the hotel. ...

"Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked."—Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen For fans of Gillian Flynnand Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths...

In Whiskey Run, Pennsylvania, secrets don’t stay buried. In 1932, County Detective Thomas L. Moorhead kissed his wife goodbye and told her he would see her that evening. He never came home. Five days later, Moorhead was found dead in a Chicago hotel room. His death was ruled a suicide, but the ruling failed to explain what happened in the days before he died. The Blood of Whiskey Run imagines those missing days — and the investigation that pulled Moorhead into the dark. Based on actual events, and in the spirit of Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of ...

Researcher and author Marlin Bressi has compiled a panoply of unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings throughout the history of the Keystone State. From unsolved mysteries, headless corpses, missing persons, to ghosts and missing treasure, Bressi's compilation is sure to entertain: CONTENTS: PART I: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery Berks County's Missing Skeleton Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar? A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery Allison Hill's House of Mystery The Broad Mountain Mystery The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939 The True Story of Shamokin's ...

Raised as Jehovah's Witnesses and frustrated with their parents' repressive rules, Bryan and David Freeman rebelled as teenagers. Encouraged by an acquaintance he met while institutionalized at a reform school, Bryan became a neo-Nazi. Bryan then indoctrinated David, and their flair for defiance took a dark turn. After callously murdering their father, mother, and younger brother, the skinhead brothers took flight across America, with police from three states in hot pursuit.

When a retreat becomes a nightmare... When Cherie Marshall catches her fiancé and best friend in a compromising position, she cancels her upcoming wedding and jumps at the chance to escape to quiet Klondike, Pennsylvania to care for her elderly aunt. She thought her biggest issue would be adapting to life in the middle of a National Forest, so very different from her upbringing in the deserts of Arizona. But that was before she met State Trooper Fire Marshall Jamison "Jazz" Maddox at the scene of a mysterious fire. As they both become acquainted with the close-knit Klondike residents, ...

This program features multicast narration. Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former...

Blood was found at his home in Franklin County, PA. All evidence pointed to one suspect: Scott North, a former employee of Carl’s, a regular attendee of Franklin County courts, and the son of a Chambersburg, PA cop. After burglarizing a tavern, a judge granted him work release, and then another dismissed a recent gun charge. Days later, he ran from his unsupervised worksite and began a crime spree that may have ended with the murder of Carl Wade Ryder.

During the summer of 2018, young boys are found in shallow graves scattered across Chester County, Pennsylvania, the sites marked only by a red ribbon. There are few clues in the killings and an FBI task force is only slowly finding links between the boys. The ribbon is the killer’s desire for recognition, a desire so strong he calls reporter Ellen Parker to make sure all the bodies are found. He is not simply trying for notoriety – he wants recognition and he wants it for protecting a terrible secret. Ellen Parker, with the help of Robert Blasingame, tries to solve the puzzle of the ...

Intense thrills at a breakneck pace, The Edge is the killer sequel to David Baldacci's runaway number one bestseller The 6:20 Man, featuring elite undercover operative Travis Devine. Read by Zachary Webber (The 6:20 Man). ‘One of the world’s thriller masters’ – Daily Mail A Brutal Murder...

“Sara Shepard delivers the perfect read….A brilliant storyteller.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine “[Written] with unflinching honesty and unstinting compassion.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author The Deep End of the Ocean “This riveting...

Known for novels featuring “great pacing and true surprises” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and “nerve-shattering suspense” (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Time bestselling author), New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti’s latest is the story of a scandal-torn Pennsylvania town...

Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in Florida from international bestselling author David Baldacci. Things are changing for...

A drug-related massacre ends with an Amish farm being burnt to the ground in rural Pennsylvania. The victims that survived the incident, must learn how to cope with what they had lost. In a world where they are shunned by their community and treated like aliens in the next, they must partner with an eccentric billionaire to uncover a deeper conspiracy as to why their family was killed.