Castillo excels at detailing gory crime scenes, but she leaves Kate and John as little more than cookies cut from the same “troubled cop” mold. Pray for Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel Kindle Edition by Linda Castillo (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 3,627 ratings Book 2 of 15: Kate Burkholder See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 12.99 to buy Audiobook 0. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Besides writing, Castillo's other passion is horses.

She is the recipient of awards including the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence, the Holt Medallion and a nomination for the RITA. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Linda Castillo is the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Burkholder novels, including Sworn to Silence and, crime thrillers set in Amish country. Lending a hand is Kate’s on-again/off-again boyfriend, John Tomasetti, an agent suspended from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Identification for failing a recent drug test in the wake of his own family’s murder about two years earlier. Pray for Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel is written by Linda Castillo and published by Minotaur Books. When clues point to a killer outside the family, Kate Burkholder, the local police chief who left the Amish community decades before, zeroes in on 15-year-old Mary, who may have flirted with the idea of living in the “English” world. At first, it appears the father, Amos, killed his wife and five children, then shot himself. The bodies of the two teenage daughters show signs of torture. , someone slaughters all seven members of the Amish Plank family at their home in Painters Mill, Ohio.

In this overwrought thriller from Castillo, her second after Sworn to Silence

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