J.R. Lindermuth

• Nov-2003
• / Historical
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Early in the 19th Century, expanding markets for Pennsylvania's anthracite coal created a smaller scale prelude to the later California gold rush. It was an era as wild as any the West ever knew-yet it has been rarely depicted in history. A native of...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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As John Donne said, and Hemingway repeated, "No man is an island." Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to accept that truth. For the Keller family, the lesson evolves from a deer hunt which forces them to confront secrets that have separated them...

• Jun-2006
• / Mystery
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When a lonely widow finds the severed head of an unknown young woman on her front porch in rural Swatara Creek, Pennsylvania, Police Chief Aaron Brubaker is baffled. Anxious to conceal his ineptitude from municipal officials, Brubaker (whose experien...

• Nov-2007
• / Romance
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A rash of animal mutilations and a vicious poison pen campaign directed against an ambitious young lawyer lead to murder in a rural Pennsylvania community. Dan 'Sticks' Hetrick, retired police chief, and Flora Vastine, a novice officer, team up and e...

• Jun-2008
• / Mystery
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Retired police chief Daniel 'Sticks' Hetrick, still serving as unofficial consultant to his less experienced successor, has another murder to deal with in rural Swatara Creek, Pennsylvania. It soon develops the death of a local waitress is not the on...

• Apr-2009
• / Paranormal Romance
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In the 1870s in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region, mine owners and their employees, particularly the Irish immigrants, are in conflict over working conditions.Private police forces commissioned by the state but paid by the coal companies are swor...

• Jul-2010
• / Mystery
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Some believe violence foreign to our nature. Dan 'Sticks' Hetrick, retired chief and now consultant to the Swatara Creek police department, knows better. We put a lid on our natural tendency to violence when we started living in groups, devising mora...

• Mar-2011
• / Western
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As the 19th century winds to a close, Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman of the small Pennsylvania town of Arahpot ponders his biggest problems: finding a new deputy and convincing his true love, Lydia, to marry him. But an early autumn day finds Arahpot’s...

• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
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Rookie Officer Flora Vastine of the Swatara Creek Police Department is called to Creekside Rest, a nursing facility, where a female guest has been murdered. Ray Fertig, another guest who claims to have been the victim’s lover, is found in the room ...

• Mar-2012
• / Mystery
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Gavin Cutter, an artist living in an isolated village on the New England coast, witnesses the crash of a sailing ship onto a reef. The first aboard the wreck, he rescues a dog, the only living creature on the vessel. Ron Myers, wealthy owner of a gro...

• Aug-2012
• / Erotica
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• Apr-2013
• / Suspense
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Domestic disturbance calls to the residence of Booth and Stacey Keiser aren’t uncommon. Keiser, a State Police trooper, is known for his volatile temper, and his wife has often been the target for his rage. So officers of the Swatara Creek Police D...

• Apr-2013
• / Historical
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It’s the summer of 1898. The nation, just coming out of an economic slump, has been at war with Spain since April. And Sylvester Tilghman, sheriff of Arahpot, Jordan County, Pennsylvania, has a murder victim with too many enemies.There’s Claude K...

• Mar-2014
• / Police Procedural
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The past is always with us. The past comes back to haunt former police chief Daniel "Sticks" Hetrick and his protégé, Officer Flora Vastine as an outbreak of arson shakes residents of rural Swatara Creek, Pennsylvania. At first, the minor nature of...

• Aug-2015
• / Historical Mystery
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When a young girl is found murdered in a Pennsylvania rye field in the autumn of 1897, Ned Gebhardt, a feeble-minded youth known to have stalked the victim, is the prime suspect. Incidents involving another girl and gossip stir emotions to a frenz...

• Sep-2016
• / Romantic Suspense
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Jan Kepler and Swatara Creek Police Office Flora Vastine were neighbors and schoolmates, but never close.When Jan, a school teacher, avid birder and niece of a fellow officer, goes missing and is found dead in a nearby tract of woods, Flora finds her...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical
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Half-breed Indian scout Mickey Free has saved Geronimo’s life twice, but how long will that kind of luck hold? Though Mickey and Geronimo have never been friends, murder is serious business on the reservation -- and Mickey’s curiosity may be the ...

• Jul-2017
• / Historical
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When ex-lawman Lute Donnelly sets out on the trail of the ruthless gang of outlaws who murdered his brother, revenge is his only desire. But when he stumbles upon Tom Baskin, a youngster who has been duped into helping the outlaw band and then left b...

• Feb-2018
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lydia, daughter of Swatara Creek Police Chief Aaron Brubaker, is accused of murdering her boyfriend, Jason Russell, handsome but feckless stepson of Clay Stoneroad, a famous writer who recently moved to a farm outside town.Daniel 'Sticks' Hetrick, no...

• Jul-2018
• / Historical
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Blake’s rule has always been to do what’s right…not what’s easy. Range detective Sam Blake is after cattle rustlers -- but when a beautiful woman is accused of murdering her employer, he has to step in and see justice done. Miriam had her rea...

• Apr-2022
• / Historical Mystery
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Spring is usually heralded as a time of renewal, not murder.Preparations are underway in the spring of 1899 for the wedding of Deputy Cyrus Gutshall. Sheriff Tilghman is hopeful this will put his sweetheart Lydia Longlow in the marital mood.But then ...

• / Historical
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When Martha Raker is abducted and her father murdered in a robbery, her uncle, the sheriff of the town, heads out in pursuit. The only man who volunteers to help is a greenhorn— the mild-mannered schoolteacher, Will Burrows. As the outlaws flee...