Author: Linda Castillo
Published: July 16th 2019 by Minotaur Books
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 304 pages
Genre: Police Procedural
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Kate Burkholder #11
Linda Castillo does not disappoint in this eleventh installment to the Kate Burkholder series. A bit heavier and more disturbing than her previous books, the author takes Kate and the police force of Painters Mill down a dark and disturbing road with the murder of a grandmother and the abduction of a special needs child.
“Da Deivel has hurt Grossmammi” are the first words Kate can get out of terrified Anne Helmuth. Mary Yoder is dead and 7-year-old Elsie is missing. With little to go on and only a basic description, the police are left with very few leads. The locals have no idea who could be responsible, but when an innocent comment is made about Elsie being a gift, new ideas are forming and when you kick over the right rock, family secrets are revealed. Secrets lead up to the highest echelons of the tight-knit Amish community. With the pieces coming together, Kate does not like the picture which is forming and why Elsie, of all children, would be kidnapped. In a desperate need to have her child returned, Miriam Helmuth reveals the truth behind Elsie’s birth and what part both a mid-wife and Bishop Troyer had in a late-night visit to a remote farm.
As notes are being left with those who know more than they should, and bodies piling up, Kate is in a battle with time to have a child returned before any more damage can be done to the families involved and the community that protects them.
This book will grab you from the beginning. You may have the intention of reading a bit here and there, to savor what is being said, but you will not be able to let go until you reach the end and know the pain some have suffered and the dishonesty others will go to when they think they are doing what is best for a child.
“Da Deivel has hurt Grossmammi” are the first words Kate can get out of terrified Anne Helmuth. Mary Yoder is dead and 7-year-old Elsie is missing. With little to go on and only a basic description, the police are left with very few leads. The locals have no idea who could be responsible, but when an innocent comment is made about Elsie being a gift, new ideas are forming and when you kick over the right rock, family secrets are revealed. Secrets lead up to the highest echelons of the tight-knit Amish community. With the pieces coming together, Kate does not like the picture which is forming and why Elsie, of all children, would be kidnapped. In a desperate need to have her child returned, Miriam Helmuth reveals the truth behind Elsie’s birth and what part both a mid-wife and Bishop Troyer had in a late-night visit to a remote farm.
As notes are being left with those who know more than they should, and bodies piling up, Kate is in a battle with time to have a child returned before any more damage can be done to the families involved and the community that protects them.
This book will grab you from the beginning. You may have the intention of reading a bit here and there, to savor what is being said, but you will not be able to let go until you reach the end and know the pain some have suffered and the dishonesty others will go to when they think they are doing what is best for a child.
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