No. 6 in the series. Oh how I love this! Taking place in the Pennsylvania Amish countryside, It's a two-for-one. You get a murder mystery wrapped up with an insider's look at the Amish culture. Kate, the local sheriff attempts to solve a series of related homicides that have a common thread leading back to a horrific murder of an Amish family over 30 years ago. Do you believe in ghosts? Can the Ghost of the Amish mother be back seeking revenge or justice? I highly recommend this series, from sta...

I just love this series. It is one of my faves!Highly recommendedMy review is on the first book Sworn to Silence, which will give you in more detail what this series is about. Each book in the series is a different story that is a great thriller and mystery.

Continue to enjoy this series. It would have rated 4 stars if I did not peg the murderer. Perhaps #7 will strike a better chord.

The Dead Will Tell (Kate Burkholder #6) by Linda Castillo (Author), Kathleen McInerney (Narrator)Thirty years ago, a Painters Mill Amish father and four of his children died. His wife was missing and only his son, Billy, was left to tell of the assault by a group of men. Now a murder seems to be connected to that long ago tragedy and it's up to Kate to find the murderer before there are more deaths. Poor Painters Mill seems to be in a big black hole of a continuous crime spree. I keep wondering

Working the late shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder was called to a horrific scene. A man was hanging from the rafters of his barn in what was initially thought to be suicide, but the bullet wounds prove otherwise. Investigations lead Kate to think back thirty-five years, when she was a toddler, to the horrific murders of the Hochstetler family when the father was shot and four small children perished, while their mother vanished. Only William survived. When another person was discovered dea...

Been flying though this series because the last few books have just been great mysteries with compelling characters, plot lines and satisfying endings. Chief Burkholder has a whole lot going on — she’s juggling a run of gruesome murders that seem to tie back to an equally gruesome cold case from the late 70s. Add some tension at home with her new roomie, Tommasetti, and this small town police chief just isn’t having a good week! Yet as all the puzzle pieces come together, she finds a way to stay...

One night almost 35 years ago, the Hochstetler family was shredded when they were set upon by masked robbers. Fast forward to the present and Police Chief Kate Burkholder investigates the hanging of a wealthy man in his own barn that at first looks like a suicide. As she and her team continue to probe, they realize this was no death by the victim’s hand. Then a second murder occurs involving one of the people she’d contacted about the first murder and a connection to what happened at the Hochste...

The Dead Will Tell is the sixth book in the Kate Burkholder series. Kate is the police chief in Painters Mill, Ohio. She grew up Amish, but left the faith as a teenager. Now she's back, running the local police department. In The Dead Will Tell, Kate is investigating a string of bizarre murders. The victims were stalked first. All received notes accusing them of being complicit in a crime. The case somehow ties in with a break-in at an Amish farm 35 years before that resulted in several deaths.

I’m continuing to enjoy this series. Castillo’s strength is in the descriptions she paints. You literally feel you are at the scene. Note that some of these scenes are extremely graphic, so this is not a book for the squeamish. This is the first of the Burkholder books I’ve listened to. The narrator does a very good job. And the book is told at a nice steady pace, so it makes it easy to listen and stay focused (important to me on the road). I figured out some aspects of the mystery early on but

3.5 StarsTime is a Ticking when it comes to Murder in Painters Mill!A body is found hanging from the rafters of a Barn. Evidence from a cold case is found on the body. Then another murder is discovered with yet another link to that same case, leaving Kate Burkholder and her team on a wild goose chase with the clock ticking. Someone has a score to settle and it’s not for the faint of heart.A fast-paced, suspenseful read that will keep you gripped to the pages, “The Dead Will Tell” is a great addi...

The sixth book in the Kate Burkholder series and it keeps getting better. In many ways this reminded me of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With an avenging ghost?The story opens in 1979 with a home invasion of the Hochstetler family in Painters Mill, Ohio. A group of teens break into the home in the middle of the night. The Hochstetler's are Amish, pacifists, and don't use banks. Rumors have it that they have a lot of money stashed in the home. Easy pickings. Until things go horribly wrong with t...

4.5 stars for a book that grabs you by the throat and never lets go. The prologue describes a brutal home invasion, with robbers in search of Amish cash. Amish don't trust banks. The father is killed and the mother is kidnapped. Four of the children die in a fire. Over 30 years later, threatening notes start to be delivered to 3 men and 1 woman: "I know what you did." As you read further, you realize that these people were involved in the home invasion and somebody knows. The person who is bent...

Oh, my freaking, flipping, Mylanta! Damn you, Linda and your Amish nightmares! I love you; but I also hate you because, I did nothing but read in my last 24hours. The book said it best with, “Where’s there smoke, there’s fire,” and my friends this read has been ablaze -shining bright!!😂I’m a couple counties north from Holmes but the hotness from this read is surly still sending up smoke signals since it’s grand finale. The Dead Will Tell, is a read that is so sick, so twisted, so warped, that I’...

This is an Amish Suspense Mystery, and this is the 6st book in the Kate Burkholder series. I have read and review books 1-5 in this series before picking this book up. I have to say I loved this book. I found the mystery in this book so well done. I love the characters in this book. The twist I really did not see coming, and wow... the twist was something. (*)

3.5 Another series that I anxiously await the next and newest installment. A good mix of mystery, personality and personal relationships, and the Amish culture. A look at an evil done to an Amish family in the past that has a high cost for the perpetrators in the future. The long and far reaching effects of hatred and revenge. A good, solid and quick read.