Down to the Bone

by Karen Harper

Book Overview

Down to the Bone by Karen Harper released on Apr 24, 2004 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778321150
• ISBN13: 9780778321156
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

The best book I have read in a long long time!!

This book was incredible, once I started reading it I could not put it down. I am casual reader and it usually takes me a week or more to finish a book, with this one I started it yesterday afternoon, read until I couldnt keep my eyes open for another second, went to bed, got up and immediatly picked up the book and could not put it down til it was finished. Karen Harper has a way of drawing you into this book in a way that you cant wait til you get to the end to see what happens but then are disappointed that it is over once you do get there. Wonderful!!

Good Suspense

I enjoyed reading this book and learning about the Amish life styles and beliefs. A good whodunit that won't disappoint even the most toughest critics. A story of a widowed mother of twins whose husband had died in a freak accident. Was it an accident? If not who and why would someone want to kill an amish man. Too many characters to choose from. Good sideline romance thrown into the pages as well. Read and enjoy.

Great Book! Karen Harper never disappoints me!

This was another great book by Karen Harper. I am so glad that I didn't let a C- review which I read at an online review site sway me.I would give this book a solid A! It has wonderful writing about the world of the Amish and an Amish woman named Rachel who has lost her husband to a tragic accident. She is left alone with her two twin sons. I don't want to give to much away, but Rachel's world is turned upside down and she turns to a "English" ie. non-amish man for help.There is romance and suspense and so much more to love about this book. Bravo Ms. Harper! You did it again!

A surprise ending!

If you like a mystery with cultural interest and a little romance thrown in, this is it. "Down to the Bone" had me guessing who-done-it the entire way through. I thought it was very well written and so interesting to learn about the culture of the Amish community.

A good writer gets better

Three years ago, forty-one members of the Maplecreek Amish community move across Ohio to buy affordable farmland and end their zoo-like attraction to tourists. Among the relocaters are Sam and Rachel Mast and their twin sons. However, only two years of bliss in their new home passes when Sam dies in what is believed to be a freak accident. A year later, Rachel has radically changed and her neighbors feel she has become a rebel defying the conformity code of her people.Rachel works her own farm and refuses to marry church leader Eben Yoder. Even more scandalous is her friendship with her English neighbor and with Englishman Mitch Randall, a restorer of barns. Mitch wants to repair Rachel's barn, which leads to a forbidden attraction between them. While Rachel struggles with this crisis of the heart, someone begins to terrorize her in actions that she feels are linked to Sam's death.Anyone who wants an insider's look at the religious, cultural, and political lifestyle of the Amish will want to read DOWN TO THE BONE. Karen Harper makes her characters seem alive although readers will wonder why Rachel does not seem to suffer heartache from her sudden loss nor qualms about breaking rules that she adhered to all her life. The exciting story line will retain the audience's attention throughout a tale where suspects are eliminated one at a time in a strange manner.Harriet Klausner