Linda Castillo, Author . Minotaur $23.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-312-37497-6
“A gun-toting, cursing, former Amish female
chief of police” stars in this excellent first in a new suspense series from romance veteran Castillo (Fade to Red
). When a serial killer strikes bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio, the killer’
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Linda Castillo, Author Minotaur $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-37498-3
In this overwrought thriller from Castillo, her second after Sworn to Silence
, someone slaughters all seven members of the Amish Plank family at their home in Painters Mill, Ohio. The bodies of the two teenage daughters show signs of torture. At...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-37499-0
In Castillo's fine third Amish thriller (after Pray for Silence), Kate Burkholder, police chief of Painter's Creek, Ohio, finds a gruesome crime scene at a farm. Solly and Rachael Slabaugh, and Solly's brother, Abel, have drowned in a poorly...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-65856-4
Kate Burkholder’s Amish heritage plays a huge role in bestseller Castillo’s exciting fourth thriller featuring the Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief (after 2011’s Breaking Silence). John Tomasetti of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-65857-1
Bestseller Castillo’s fifth Amish thriller featuring Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Katie Burkholder (after 2012’s Gone Missing) is a stunner. In the prologue a hit-and-run driver crashes into the buggy of Paul Borntrager, killing him and two of...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-02957-7
In the prologue, set in Painters Mill, Ohio, in 1979, of bestseller Castillo’s suspenseful sixth Amish thriller (after 2013’s Her Last Breath), 14-year-old Billy Hochstetler survives a brutal attack that kills his father and three siblings; his...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-06156-0
Bestseller Castillo’s seventh Amish novel (after 2014’s The Dead Will Tell) does something remarkable for a thriller. Not counting the gripping prologue, readers are halfway through the book before police chief Kate Burkholder and the town of...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-06157-7
In bestseller Castillo's exciting eighth Kate Burkholder mystery (after 2015's After the Storm), Sheriff Dan Suggs from Franklin City, N.Y., and Frank Betancourt, a senior investigator with the BCI division of the New York State Police, ask Kate,...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-12128-8
Joseph King, whose plight is the focus of bestseller Castillo’s thrilling ninth novel featuring Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder (after 2016’s Among the Wicked), has escaped from prison, two years after he was convicted of shooting...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-12131-8
Bestseller Castillo addresses the topic of sexual assault in Amish communities in her riveting 10th mystery featuring Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder (after 2017’s Down a Dark Road). When 18-year-old Daniel Gingerich’s death in a...
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Linda Castillo, read by Kathleen McInerney, Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-42720-971-9
The horrific murder of an Amish family rocks the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio, in Castillo’s second thriller featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder. A lapsed member of the community herself, Burkholder confronts the life she abandoned many...
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Linda Castillo, read by Kathleen McInerney. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6096-3
Castillo’s seventh thriller about Kate Burkholder (after 2014’s The Dead Will Tell) finds the chief of police of Painters Mill, Ohio, returning to the Amish community from which she was excommunicated as a young adult, after a tornado rips through...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-14289-4
At the start of bestseller Castillo’s suspenseful 12th Kate Burkholder mystery (after 2019’s Shamed), young Amish widower Adam Lengacher, while out in his sleigh on a snowy day with his three small children, spots a car in a ditch. Nearby he finds...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-14292-4
In bestseller Castillo’s exhilarating 13th Amish mystery (after 2020’s Outsider), Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder investigates the murder of Rachael Schwartz, a young woman she once babysat, who was beaten to death in a local motel.
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-78105-5
Early in bestseller Castillo’s captivating 14th Amish mystery (after 2021’s Fallen), Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder learns her services are needed out of state. The remains of Kish Valley, Pa., bishop Ananias Stoltzfus have turned
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-78108-6
At the start of Castillo’s thrilling 15th mystery featuring Ohio police chief Burkholder (after 2022’s The Hidden One), the body of 21-year-old Aden Karn turns up on a desolate road with crossbow wounds in his abdomen and mouth. Raised in a...
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-78111-6
At the start of Castillo’s enthralling 16th mystery featuring Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder (after An Evil Heart), Kate’s colleagues find the charred body of 36-year-old Milan Swanz bound to a stake in the middle of the woods....
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Linda Castillo. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-22071-4
In the prologue of bestseller Castillo’s electrifying 11th novel featuring Painters Mill, Ohio, police chief Kate Burkholder (after 2018’s A Gathering of Secrets), an intruder murders Mary Yoder, a 60-year-old Amish widow, in her farmhouse. He then...
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