Plain Beauty

Mysteries Of Lancaster County #6

by Leslie Gould

When a little Amish boy in Bird-in-Hand is diagnosed with leukemia, the Plain community rallies around him—as do Martha, Mary, and Elizabeth, and Secondhand Blessings becomes a staging area to gather donated goods for a fund-raising auction. The little boy’s grandfather, Alvin Miller, donates a racehorse he recently acquired, along with a valuable saddle, to the cause. But when Alvin’s stable is set on fire and both the horse and saddle disappear, Martha and her sisters are thrust into solving a mystery that follows horse dealers and trainers from Virginia to Pennsylvania to Maryland.

Meanwhile, Martha gets disturbing news from her family in Kansas. Her own granddaughter, Celeste, has fallen ill. Will the mystery behind the fire and the disappearance of Alvin’s prize horse remain unsolved while Martha tends to the needs of her faraway family?

Genres: Amish

277 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2019

About the author

Leslie Gould is the #1 bestselling and Christy Award-winning author of fifty novels. She received her MFA in 2009 and has taught writing on the university level. Leslie enjoys traveling, hiking, and history. She and her husband, Peter, are the parents of four adult children and two grandbabies. Visit her at http://www.lesliegould.com/.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book seemed rather slow moving. The three sisters decide to have an auction to raise money for a sick boy and one of the items is an expensive race horse. The horse is stolen during a barn fire along with an expensive saddle. Martha gets upsetting news about her family back in Kansas and has to decide if she should move back to Kansas or not.

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This takes place in September in Pennsylvania and Kansas. The story involves a horse, sick children, an auction, a fire, and theft. Also, there is some family drama, but it's resolved by the end of the story. I thought this would end differently. I was hoping it would be someone else.

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned a lot about how the Amish community takes care of their own in times of trouble. There are so many things that they show us by doing for each other and others outside their faith. A child in one of their families has just recently been diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. Since the Amish do not have insurance, they rely on the church and a fund set aside to help with needs. At this time, the fund does not have enough to cover his expenses so they come up with the idea of a public auction of donations to build it up. One of the donations was to be a horse, Plain Beauty. A horse who had recently been bought by an Amish farmer and went missing shortly after word got out about the auction. The storyline is about Amish ways in dealing with unusual expenses, trying to recover or at least find out what happened to the valuable horse, and the organization and set up for a public auction with donations from the community. It is all about doing for each other in many different circumstances.

[Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sister's volunteer to host an auction for an Amish child that needs a bone marrow transplant. But before the auction, a prize horse is stolen and the barn burns down. The sisters' are on the case!

[Amanda Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great series

[sasha beltran · Rating 5 out of 5]

i had it on the edge, i loved the story, for it being a y\a\ children's book it was very easy to get through and fun to read.