by Linda Castillo
Ive said it before and will say it again, there is a hella lot of crazies in this town of 5,500. Just as well the citizens of unlucky Painter's Mill have a a kick ass, smart and slightly emotionally damaged Chief to fight crime together with her equally damaged and brooding sidekick Tomasetti.
Kate Burkholder is called to a sleepy Amish farm to find Rachel and Solly Slabough and his brother Abel drowned in the hog pit, leaving their four children orphaned. As Kate investigates she finds that the story has twists and turns and to add to her issues there are hate crimes going on in the are...
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I'll probably seek out the first two. The Amish setting is intriguing. . .
As good as book 1, better than book 2. There was one incident in the middle of the book that bothered me (something that could have been caught by an editor but apparently wasn't) -- heroine downs three shots, feels drunk, flirting wiht another cop, then takes off and is in a warehouse chasing a sus...
Once again Castillo has an excellent book. One of the things I love most about this series is that not only is Kate flawed (sometimes detrimentally) but she brings a very unique perspective to life. That of a former Amish being involved in the community. Castillo also makes her secondary characters ...
It's always interesting to read a police procedural from a woman's point of view and from a different culture (Amish) and this novel ticks all the right boxes (male vs. female protagonist) in the form of a female police chief and a male investigator (think unresolved sexual tension) I do find the fi...
This book was SO good and probably the most shocking out of the series. I absolutely loved, loved, loved it! Kind of bummed now, because now I have to wait for the next one to come out!!
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