Batter Off Dead

TitleBatter Off Dead
Year of Publication2009
Publication TypeNovel
Series TitleA Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes, 17/23
Number of Pages or Episodes263 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsMyers, Tamar
PublisherObsidian
CityNew York
KeywordsAmish; Anabaptists; cooking; homosexuality; hospitality industry; Jewish Americans; Mennonites; nuns; pacifists; police; Presbyterians; private investigators; Roman Catholics
Abstract

Magdalena Yoder solves the death of a woman who drops dead eating pancakes at the Mennonite church fundraising breakfast.

Author Biography

Tamar Myers (1948— ), born and raised by Mennonite missionary parents in the Belgian Congo, arrived in the United States at age 16. As a college student she began to submit novel manuscripts for publication; 23 years later Too Many Crooks, her first, was published by Doubleday. Her other mystery series takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she now lives with her husband and pets. “She and her husband are of the Jewish faith,” says the HarperCollins author web page, “the animals are not.”

Time

2000s