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When Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is summoned to the scene of an apparent suicide at an abandoned farm in Painters Mill, the evidence quickly points to murder. The case becomes a tangled trail through a long‑hidden Amish tragedy: 35 years earlier, an Amish father and his four children perished, and his wife vanished. As additional bodies start to appear—seemingly by suicide—Kate, who lives with state agent John Tomasetti, must dig into the past to expose the truth behind the deaths that have haunted the town for decades.
The novel weaves a police procedural with Amish cultural elements, focusing on Kate’s role as a women police chief confronting both crime and the secrets held by a close-knit community.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Linda Castillo
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