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Schmidt’s Mill shows us a small, out-of-the-way Wisconsin town with skill and empathy, and then, gradually, the motives and passions that move the people there. By the end, we know Schmidt’s Mill and its inhabitants better than we know our own home town and neighbors – their quirks, thoughts, and defenses, their solidarity and respect, if not always liking, for each other, and their not-always-legal ways of solving problems. The reader becomes so involved that for a while, Wisconsin becomes our own home state. A wonderful and memorable read.
- C.F. Roe, author of Berlin Rules

Schmidt’s Mill beautifully evokes the foreboding ambience of a small Wisconsin town, visited by a young man names Schmidt. He has never seen the town but is related to nearly everyone in it and finds himself embroiled in the web of births and deaths and feuds, all the twists of fate that befall a family bound to a place and its slow decline. Readers familiar with the landscape and the characters of rural Wisconsin – indeed the rural Midwest – will feel at home. Others will relish a new experience bordering on the Gothic in a setting of surpassing beauty.
- William Halloran, Dean Emeritus, UWM

Schmidt’s Mill is a special treat: a cornucopia of unforgettable characters, authentically portrayed settings, and enough plot twists and turns to fill a pretzel factory. This savory tale should win Peck a bevy of new readers and will keep his stable of usual admirers asking for more.
- Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, author of Haunted by Combat

Readers’ comments

Richard Peck has done it again! A rich cast of characters, in a unique story, each page richer than the last. Splendidly satisfying.
-  L.R.K.

Schmidt’s Mill differs from Peck’s other novels in all ways but one – it’s just as good!
- M.R.