The Reading Warehouse

AN OLD WAY OF LIFE
Thirty-year-old Barbara Weaver was content to live as the Amish have for centuries--without modern conveniences--but her husband, Eli, wanted a life beyond horses and buggies. Soon he gave in to the temptation of technology, and found ways to go online and meet women. When Barbara was found dead, shot in the chest at close range, all eyes were on Eli...and his mistress, a Conservative Mennonite named Barb Raber.

A NEW KIND OF BETRAYAL--AND DEATH. . .
Barb drove Eli to appointments in her car. She gave him everything he asked for: a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting spots--and sex. Above all, she gave him the cell phone he would use to plan a murder. The Weaver case marked only the third time an Amish man was suspected of killing his wife in more than two hundred years in America. But the investigation raised almost as many questions as it answered: Was Barb Raber the one who fired the fatal shot? Or was Barbara Weaver dead before someone entered the house? What did Eli's friends, family, and church really know about him? And will life among the "Plain People" ever be the same?

Gregg Olsen has been a journalist and investigative author for more than twenty years. He is the recipient of numerous writing, editing, and photojournalism awards, including citations of excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), the International Association of Business Communicators, Washington Press Association, Society of Technical Communication, and the Public Relations Society of America. He is the author of Abandoned Prayers, A Twisted Faith, and Cruel Deception, among others.

A resident of Washington state, Olsen has been a guest on dozens of national and local television shows, including educational programs for the History Channel, Learning Channel, and the Discovery Channel. Olsen also appeared several times on CBS's 48 Hours, MSNBC's Special Edition, Entertainment Tonight, Sally Jesse Raphael, Inside Edition, and Extra. He has been featured in USA Today, Salon Magazine, Seattle Times, and the New York Post. His true crime books include If I Can't Have You and Cruel Deception.

Rebecca Morris is the New York Times bestselling author of Bodies of Evidence as well as If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance and the Murder of Her Children (both with Gregg Olsen). They are also the authors of a series of books, Notorious USA, about infamous crimes in every state.
She is the author of the bestseller Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy, and Bad Apples: Inside the Teacher/Student Sex Scandal Epidemic.

As an award-winning reporter Rebecca Morris worked in journalism in New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. She lives in Seattle.