Overall, this is a great first book in the series. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series. I did feel it was a little predictable. I knew who the killer was quite a bit before it was revealed, but it was still a suspenseful and great book! I really liked how Linda ...
This one is a marked improvement over Castillo's first in the series. The set-up at the end could have been "set up" better; it wasn't thought out or planned out well at all, allowing for vulnerability.Kate continues her on-again, off-again long distance relationship with Detective Tomasetti whic...
I really enjoyed the first book and was looking forward to reading the next in the series but found this book a bit of a disappointment. I realise that authors like even series books to be stand alone but there was a bit too much of referring back to the first book. There was also quite a lot o...
I really like the storyline...murder in Amish country. I've read the other two books in the series and I like the main lead, Kate Burkholder. However, for some reason in this book I felt the author repeated Kate's emotions too many times. Yes, she has a troubled past, yes she used to be Amish,...
Of the 3 books I've read by Linda Castillo, in the Kare Burkholder series, this is by far my favorite. I've loved them all but they keep getting better. This one again, deals with a murder among the Amish, but there is also the issue of hate crime that mixed in, and then at the end a huge surpris...
State Agent John Tomasetti asked Police Chief Kate Burkholder to help out on a case. Several Amish teens from communities scattered across Ohio have disappeared without a trace. Their families are hesitant to talk to the authorities. John is hoping the parents will cooperate with Kate since sh...
This was a very short story so it only took a couple hours to read. It could be read as a stand alone story but you would enjoy it more if you have read other books in the Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo. I have read all of them and they are wonderful mystery/thrillers about Kate who is ...
This was a short, fun "in between" book. Kate and John attempt to leave their police world behind and have a mini vacation, but it just doesn't happen. It was an easy case with a shocking end and I'll admit I didn't see it coming. I actually wish this had been a full book complete with investigat...
A woman searches for her birth mother-and discovers that she is the sole survivor of her bloodline. A line that a killer is determined to make extinct.
Taking gorgeous corrections officer Emily Monroe as his hostage, undercover CIA Agent Zack Devlin was trying to escape with his life. But when he helped himself to Emily's full red lips and her body melted into Zack's hard edges, she didn't know if she was in danger or in love.Both harboring old...
A Whisper in the Dark (Berkley Sensation)
Agent: Robert DavidsonMission: Pinpoint exact location of the missing agent in Rebelia.Deepest Secret: He's never recovered from the horror of watching the woman he loved die.Robert Davidson thought he could handle returning to Rebelia, the war-ravaged country that nearly cost him his life -- and...
This was VERY action packed. Perhaps too action packed. I'm not sure how I felt about Chase. He was too willing to walk away from Lily too many times. He was torn between his love for her and his addiction to his adrenaline charged work. But the danger of his job catches up to him and puts Lily a...
Nat Jennings nearly died the night her family was murdered--and spent the next three years wishing she had. Now, she is returning to the sleepy town of Bellerose, Louisiana, where she will team up with a sexy ex-con and hunt for the merciless killer who nearly destroyed them both--and is now prep...
Marty Hogan was a good cop until she crossed the line . . . Now someone wants her to pay . . . It started with a case so horrific it sent Chicago cop Marty Hogan straight over the edge. Unable to put the past behind her, she lost her job and was forced to flee to small-town Texas and the only po...
Deep-cover operative Mike Madrid tracked Jessica Atwood with ease, but one look at her revealed her innocence. On the run with an orphan in tow, the spitfire called out to Madrid, stirring passions he thought long buried. But on this terrifying night, the secrets of Lighthouse Point would be expo...
Special Agent Jake Vanderpol swore he'd buried all tender feelings for Leigh Michaels. Until he learned that the arms dealer she'd testified against six years ago had escaped. Suddenly the memories were back...memories of urgent kisses in hiding. But after what happened, would she trust him to sa...
It was a night like no other...darker, longer and totally unforgettable Sara Douglas watched as Nick Tyson emerged from the heavy rain. In his face she saw little of the boy she once knew. She'd returned to Cape Darkwood to research her parents' murder. And stop the nightmares. Was Nick just anot...
Lean, edgy former police detective Jack LaCroix had forty-eight hours to clear his name and keep his freedom. To do it, the escaped prisoner needed attorney Landis McAllisterthe woman he'd once thought would share his life. The woman who thought he'd betrayed her.Landis had just pulled her life ...
An instant before his mouth came down on hers, the intellectual side of her brain sent out a barrage of alarms loud enough to rattle her teeth, warning her to disengage herself, walk back into the house and lock the door behind her. Maybe because she knew what would happen next. Maybe because she...
Dual neon rainbows arced gracefully, their high-pitched whistles piercing the silence like a widow’s keening. The distant explosions made the earth tremble, a frightened giant huddling against the impending pain. Dr. Robert Davidson marveled at the eerie beauty as he ducked into a narrow alley be...
and I’m in my office at the station, my phone pressed to my ear, listening to a bad rendition of Journey’s “Wheel in the Sky.” From the reception area, I hear Mona arguing with a caller about a snow plow that blocked her driveway with snow. So far Mona’s winning the argument. I didn’t get much sl...
What a fool she was, to think she could do this on her own. Stupid, stupid girl. If she hadn’t been in such a dark place, she might have laughed at the magnitude of her own idiocy. At the moment, she didn’t think she’d ever laugh again. Wasn’t even sure she’d survive. The pain was worse than anyt...
No matter how many times I see it, the ugliness and senselessness of it frighten me on some primal level. My speedometer hits eighty miles per hour on the highway, but I slow to a reasonable speed once I reach Thigpen Road because it’s slick with snow. The Huffman place is down a short lane and s...
From atop a fifty-gallon drum, a radio spews static and gospel, harmonizing weirdly with the ping of sleet against the tin roof.Adam must have heard us walk in, because he rolls out from beneath the tractor and gets to his feet. “Chief Burkholder.” His eyes slide to Pickles and then back to me. “...
and took Interstate 77 north toward Cleveland. He assured himself he wasn’t going to do anything ill-advised. Just a little recon. He liked to know what he was dealing with, after all. A cop could never have too much information, even if he didn’t use it. Regardless of his intentions—or lack ther...
Even though she’d wrapped herself in the makeshift poncho, she was shivering. He didn’t know if it was from the cold or the shock of seeing the chopper go down, but he was concerned.“The radio is dead,” he said.Disappointment darkened her lovely features. “Are you sure?”“It’s in pieces.” He raise...
That particular type of firearm would be difficult, if not impossible, to trace. But he’s a cautious man. I can only assume it ended up in some deep body of water between here and his place in Wooster. There are plenty of reservoirs and quarries in the area. He’s probably right that I’m better of...
by the time Stevitch and his assistant call it a night. Sheriff Rasmussen left an hour ago. Tomasetti, of course, stayed. Stevitch and Hochheim spent nine grueling hours going over every inch of the site, running the soil through handheld screens and geologic sieves. All the bones were placed in ...
By the time the X ray arrived from radiology, Kate was climbing out of her skin. She didn’t like hospitals. Didn’t like being poked and prodded. She sure as hell didn’t like the idea of some son of a bitch trying to run her down. One look at Frank, and she knew he was feeling protective. Kate was...
He was bossy and about as fun as a milk cow—one that kicked. But Mamm had insisted. She needed six bushels of apples for pies and apple butter, both of which she planned to sell. Katie had already finished the sign Datt would post at the end of their lane: HOMEMADE APPLE BUTTER $3.99. DUTCH APPLE...
Those words were one of my mamm’s favorite maxims when I was growing up. As a child, I didn’t understand its true meaning, and I didn’t spend much time trying to figure it out. In the eyes of the Amish girl I’d been, more was almost always a good thing. The world around me was a swiftly moving ri...
She didn't want to deal with the reality that in the instant Nick's mouth had been pressed against hers the world had melted away and nothing existed except the moment between them. The ramifications of that line of thinking were too dangerous—even for a risk taker like herself. To acknowledge th...
Of all the things he could have demanded, that was the most difficult. To ally herself with Jack now would be to admit she believed him innocent. Not only of Aaron Chandler’s murder, but of Evan’s. The repercussions of that were almost too enormous to absorb.She couldn’t bear to believe he’d spen...
The hard glare of the afternoon sun acquiesces to the cool hush of the night layer by layer. Darkness will not arrive peacefully tonight. Sitting at my computer in my cramped office at the station, I watch a bank of storm clouds to the west steal the final snatches of light from the horizon. Ligh...