Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries Books in Order

Magdalena Yoder's PennDutch Inn is already in chaos with clashing guests, a missing cook, and nonstop demands. Then one visitor dies, and another soon follows, forcing the no-nonsense innkeeper to start asking dangerous questions.

Magdalena wants the murders at her inn to stay in the past, but a film crew arrives to recreate them on location. When the assistant director turns up dead, she finds herself the prime suspect in another messy case.

A trip to Ohio for her unpleasant cousin's funeral turns into an investigation when Magdalena learns his death was anything but ordinary. The trail leads straight into dairy-country secrets and a business called Daisybell Dairy.

Magdalena is dealing with wedding plans and a houseful of impossible people when a corpse turns up in a barrel of sauerkraut. To save her future happiness, she has to sort through family grudges and catch the killer.

When an Asian tourist is found strangled and then run over by a horse and buggy, Magdalena is pulled into a darker side of Amish country. The case forces her beyond the inn and into a tightly guarded community.

Magdalena reluctantly hosts a big East Coast bake-off at the PennDutch Inn, expecting stress but not murder. When the contest sponsor is stabbed and her cook becomes the main suspect, she has to save both the inn and the cook.

Magdalena is reeling from a bigamist husband and a tornado that wrecked her inn when a reunion of World War II buddies turns deadly. An old vendetta comes roaring back, and murder lands right on her doorstep.

Barbara Hostetler is certain she was supposed to have triplets, not twins, and she hires Magdalena to find the missing baby. What sounds impossible soon turns into a very real case of abduction and deception.

Everyone in Hernia agrees that Lizzie Mast is a terrible cook, but nobody expects her to die from poisoned crepes. Magdalena takes on the case and finds that even a small-town kitchen can hide a very determined killer.

An escaped convict samples one of Magdalena's famous dishes and promptly dies, dropping her into another ugly investigation. What looks absurd at first becomes a serious mystery with dangerous consequences.

A flashy developer wants to plant a giant hotel in the middle of quiet Hernia, and the whole town is furious. When he turns up dead at the PennDutch Inn, Magdalena has to save both her town and her reputation.

Hernia's bicentennial barbecue should be good for business and town spirit. Instead, one of Magdalena's guests is murdered, and she has to keep the celebration from collapsing while she grills a long list of suspects.

At the church chili supper, Reverend Schrock drops dead after someone slips peanut butter into a bowl he should never have eaten. Magdalena sorts through grudges, old accusations, and a congregation full of motives.

Outsiders move to the edge of Hernia with plans for a vineyard and winery, a direct insult to the local teetotaling Mennonites. When the vineyard manager is found buried in cement, Magdalena has to uncork the truth.

Three days before his wedding, a local bachelor dies in another woman's bed, and scandal sweeps through Hernia. When the coroner finds his curry was spiked, Magdalena goes looking for a killer among the angry women he left behind.

Married life barely slows Magdalena down when a Holstein competition fills Hernia with visitors and trouble. After the event's founder is attacked and her husband Gabe and stepdaughter Alison disappear, the case turns frighteningly personal.

A church breakfast turns deadly when a woman collapses after eating stacks of pancakes. Very pregnant but still unstoppable, Magdalena follows the clues through another small-town case that quickly adds a second suspicious death.

Magdalena is at the bank with her young son when armed men dressed like Amish burst in shooting and cursing. One sharp detail tells her they are impostors, and she sets out to prove it before they hit again.

At Hernia's annual pie festival, a bestselling novelist drops dead face-first into Magdalena's prize apple pie. Her sharp tell-all book has offended half the town, leaving Magdalena with suspects everywhere she turns.

Magdalena hopes a visit from English nobility will help move the PennDutch Inn upmarket. Instead, she gets impossible guests, a mummified corpse in the elevator shaft, and a fresh mystery after one aristocrat vanishes over Lovers' Leap.

Magdalena's new Amish-Asian restaurant is drawing attention, and not all of it is good. When a guest dies after eating a slice of blitz torte, she is arrested for murder and has to clear her name fast.

Hernia's Billy Goat Gruff Festival should be noisy fun, but a gruesome discovery and a string of wild pranks send everything off the rails. Magdalena starts wondering whether the target is the festival, or her.

Magdalena's ex-husband returns with plans for a huge biblical theme park that could wreck life in Hernia. When he dies after biting into a poisoned tart, she becomes the obvious suspect and has to fight back.

Investors crowd into Hernia hoping to partner with the famous Schmucker Brothers sausage business. After a tour of the pork factory, one of them ends up murdered at the inn, and Magdalena starts wondering what the sausages are hiding.

Now living in a fancy retirement community, octogenarian Magdalena throws a dinner party to smooth over neighborhood tensions. Instead, one guest dies after eating a chicken samosa, and murder follows her into her new home.