Pennsylvania Dutch innkeeper and sleuth Magdalena Yoder travels to a Mennonite community in Ohio to investigate deaths resulting from a war between two cheesemakers.

Deciding that the PennDutch Inn needs to go more upmarket, Magdalena Yoder is delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honored guests, looking forward to the challenge of introducing English nobility to traditional American culture. But, as Magdalena is about to find out, the Grimsley-Snodgrasses are by no means the easiest of guests, and at the same time she has to contend with the discovery of a mummified...

"Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations-- a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine-- is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of Barbara's delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds...

An Asian tourist found strangled and run over by a horse and buggy draws Magdalena Yoder from her quaint PennDutch Inn and into the secretive local Amish community.

Just when she thought it couldn't get worse after her husband's betrayal and a tornado that struck her Amish country inn, Magdalena Yoder discovers that her sister is planning to marry the dim-witted police chief, and one of her guests is missing!