The Names of Our Tears: An Amish-Country Mystery, by P.L. Gaus. A Plume Book, New York, 2013. 240 pages. Paperback. $15.
Sometimes setting trumps plot. P.L. Gaus newest Amish mystery, The Names of Our Tears, has a great thing going with his beautifully evoked novels set amid the society of the Plain People in Holmes County, Ohio.
It is the Amish response to the murder of one of their own, 19-year-old Ruth Zook, that interests us. She has been shot in the head and then brutally [...]
Sometimes setting trumps plot. P.L. Gaus newest Amish mystery, The Names of Our Tears, has a great thing going with his beautifully evoked novels set amid the society of the Plain People in Holmes County, Ohio.
It is the Amish response to the murder of one of their own, 19-year-old Ruth Zook, that interests us. She has been shot in the head and then brutally [...]