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This should have been exactly what I enjoy but somehow it did not quite work out for me. Just little things did not gel and left me feeling in the three star bracket only.The story was interesting especially the Amish aspect of it. Occasionally though I felt the author was trying too hard to shock the reader and I must admit the relationship between Kate and Tomasetti did not work for me at all.Currently I am not sure about continuing the series although maybe in the future 🙂
EXCERPT: A massive barn and silo stood in silhouette against the pre-dawn sky. The postcard-perfect farm was the last place Skid expected any trouble. He'd lived in Painters Mill going on four years now. Aside from a few minor infractions - like that time two teenage boys got caught racing their buggies down Main Street - the Amish were damn near perfect citizens. But Skid had been a cop long enough to know there was always an exception to the rule. He parked behind a buggy, his headlights refle...
4.5 starsI started reading this series when I won Among the Wicked in a Goodreads giveaway. It was book 8 in the series and I liked it so much that I decided to read all the books in the series. This is book 2 in the series and I recommend that you read them in order, as the characters develop and reveal past secrets as the series progresses. This book opens with a family of seven Amish people murdered on their farm. Two of the people murdered are teenage girls, who are tortured before they died...
This is the problem I have with series. The repetition of what happens in the first or previous book, the replay of each character's personality. It becomes annoying after a while. Why does all the information have to be repeated all over again? If someone wants to start with the second, third, etc book, then that's the risk that person runs of not having a full understanding of the storyline. However, for those of us who choose to start series from the beginning, I don't want to have to have it...
Kate Burkholder grew up Amish. A horrible event when she was 16 made her leave her faith and Painters Mill, PA behind. She returned as an adult to take the job as local police chief. She understands the community, the Amish, speaks Pennsylvania Dutch, and loves the community. But it presents special problems at times. She is shunned by the Amish because she left her faith. There is such a cultural difference between the English and Amish in the small community. But, Kate Burkholder loves her job...
3.5 Although the second novel in this mystery series, set in a fictitious Amish town, wasn’t as compelling as the first book, I’m still enjoying the volatile Police Chief Kate and her colleagues. The crime is much darker but the depth of characterizations is shallower than the first book. I didn’t learn more about any of the “players” (I really loved the politics of small town life in the first— ratcheting up the chaos and conflict associated with the crime). Instead the gruesome details of the
Good thriller and great as audio book. May be a bit graphic for some audience.
Another great read from Linda Castillo and the second Kate Burkholder books.One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion…The Planks moved from Lancaster County Pennsylvania to the small Amish community of Painters Mill, hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than one year later, the family of seven is found dead—slaughtered on their own farm.This isn't just any brutal murder, either- a family of seven, Amish, bound and slaughtered. Sound pretty gruesome?...
This is an Amish Thriller, and this is the second book in the Kate Burkholder series. I have read the first book in this series. I am really enjoying this series. This book as some dark moments, but the twist where not super big. I enjoyed the suspense that built up in this book. I really enjoy the Kate character, and the other characters in this book I am really enjoying getting to know. This is well written, and a great series. I cannot wait to read the third book in this series.
