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Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie, An Amish MurderSworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series.A KILLER IS PREYING ON SACRED GROUND.... In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as chief of police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She's certain she's come to terms with her past-until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past-and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.*BONUS CONTENT: This edition of Sworn to Silence includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide.

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."Shades of In Cold Blood . . . Another chilling thriller."-People magazinePolice Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from their "English" neighbors-and each other. When the diary belonging to the rebellious teenager Mary Plank turns up, Kate is surprised to find not only a kindred spirit but a murder suspect: the charismatic stranger who stole Mary's heart."Violent and earthy, and completely impossible to put down."-BookPage Then there's Mary's brother, Aaron. Shunned by his family and the rest of the Amish community, could he have returned to seek revenge? Now it's up to Kate to search for some dark truths about the Planks-and confront long-buried secrets of her own. As Kate's obsession with the case grows so does her resolve to bring the killer to justice-even if it means putting herself into the line of fire . . ."Will appeal to fans of Karin Slaughter and Tami Hoag."-Library Journal

De bloedstollende thrillers over politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder en de amish-gemeenschap.Iedereen weet dat het spookt op de verlaten boerderij van de familie Hochstetler. Vijfendertig jaar geleden kwamen een amish-vader en vier van zijn vijf kinderen daar om bij een mislukte overval. Zijn vrouw verdween spoorloos. Slechts een handjevol mensen weet wat er die avond op de boerderij is gebeurd. En nu worden ze een voor een op brute wijze vermoord. Wie heeft het geheim ontdekt?Politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder volgt een moeilijk en bijna ongrijpbaar spoor. Ondertussen is Kate ingetrokken bij agent John Tomasetti en voor het eerst in lange tijd lijken ze gelukkig. Maar het geluk is van korte duur als een van de verdachten op de moord van Tomasetti’s familie wordt vrijgesproken en op vrije voeten komt te staan. Wordt Tomasetti meegesleurd in zijn eigen tragische verleden? Zoals Kate maar al te goed weet, sterft het verleden nooit echt.Dit is deel 6 in de Kate Burkholder-serie. De delen in deze serie zijn los van elkaar te lezen en te beluisteren.

"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people--both English and Amish--who loved him, the more determined she becomes to solve the case. Aden Karn was funny and hardworking and looking forward to marrying his sweet fiancâe Emily. All the while, Kate's own wedding day to Tomasetti draws near. But as she delves into Karn's past, Kate begins to hear whispers about a dark side"--Provided by publisher of regular-sized print version.

De bloedstollende thrillers over politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder en de amish-gemeenschap.Op een regenachtige avond is een amish-familie onderweg naar huis in hun paardenkoets. Vanuit het niets komt er een auto op hen afgesneld. Wat eerst niets meer dan een tragisch ongeval lijkt, neemt een duistere wending als blijkt dat dit helemaal geen ongeluk was. De bestuurder laat een rouwende weduwe achter en een jonge zoon die vecht voor zijn leven op de intensive care en niet kan praten. Hij is misschien wel de enige die weet wat er die avond is gebeurd… Kate wil er wanhopig graag achter komen wie de man van haar beste vriendin heeft vermoord. Ze begint te vermoeden dat ze niet op zoek is naar een dronken bestuurder, maar naar een koelbloedige moordenaar die in Painters Mill woont. Door haar zoektocht wordt ze geconfronteerd met haar eigen amish-achtergrond en herinneringen aan haar jeugdvriendin.Dit is deel 5 in de Kate Burkholder-serie. De delen in deze serie zijn los van elkaar te lezen en te beluisteren.

Rumspringa is de tijd dat amish-jongeren het echte leven mogen ervaren en hun ouders een oogje toeknijpen. Een spannende periode vol ontdekkingen, voordat ze zich voorgoed binden aan de kerk. Maar wanneer er een tiener verdwijnt, komt het zorgeloze plezier abrupt tot een duister einde. De angst verspreidt zich als een virus door de gemeenschap. Wanneer er een lichaam wordt gevonden, wordt de zaak al snel een moordonderzoek. Politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder is opgegroeid in de amish-gemeenschap. Samen met haar collega John Tomasetti duikt ze in het leven van de vermiste tiener en ontdekt ze verbanden met cold cases van jaren geleden. Lukt het Kate om de stukjes van deze sinistere puzzel op tijd in elkaar te leggen en de vermiste tiener en de amish-gemeenschap te redden? Of wordt het een gevecht van leven op dood met een meedogenloze moordenaar?De bloedstollende thrillers over politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder en de amish-gemeenschap. Dit is deel 4. De delen in deze serie zijn los van elkaar te lezen en te beluisteren.

De bloedstollende thrillers over politiecommissaris Kate Burkholder en de amish-gemeenschap.De bundel ‘Een eenvoudige moord’ bestaat uit zes korte verhalen.Verloren gewaand. Op vakantie met haar partner John Tomasetti, ontdekt Kate de geheimen van het oude huis waar ze logeren. Tientallen jaren geleden is daar een meisje verdwenen…Een verborgen geheim. Voor de deur van de amish-bisschop wordt een baby achterlaten en Kate wordt opgeroepen om dit te onderzoeken.Een kiem van bedrog legt Kates eigen amish-verleden bloot. Van geluk gesproken. Tijdens een stroomstoring in Painters Mill wordt een tienermeisje op een amish-feest aangevallen.In duister gezelschap vertelt het verhaal van een gewonde vrouw met geheugenverlies die Kates hulp inschakelt om achter de identiteit van haar belager én die van zichzelf te komen. In het volle zicht. Kate onderzoekt een eenvoudig auto-ongeluk maar ontdekt al snel een verhaal over verliefde tieners en een mogelijke poging tot moord.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author Linda Castillo returns with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate Burkholder for help, and she is surprised to recognize the driver: fellow cop and her former friend, Gina Colorosa.Years before, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy and patrol officers in Columbus, but time and distance have taken them down two very different paths. Now, Gina reveals a shocking story of betrayal and revenge that has forced her to run for her life. She's desperate for protection, and the only person she can trust is Kate-but can Kate trust her? Or will Gina's dark past put them all in danger?As a blizzard bears down on Painters Mill, Kate helps Gina go into hiding on Adam's farm. While the tough-skinned Gina struggles to adjust to the Amish lifestyle, Kate and state agent John Tomasetti delve into the incident that caused Gina to flee. But as Kate gets closer to the truth, a killer lies in wait. When violence strikes, she must confront a devastating truth that changes everything she thought she knew not only about friendship, but the institution to which she's devoted her life.

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2014Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time-and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide-an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and Kate finds herself chasing a singularly difficult and elusive trail of evidence that somehow points back to the tragedy of that long ago incident. Meanwhile, Kate has moved in with state agent John Tomasetti and for the first time in so long, they're both happy; a bliss quickly shattered when one of the men responsible for the murders of Tomasetti's family four years ago is found not guilty, and walks away a free man. Will Tomasetti be pulled back to his own haunted past?When a second man is found dead-also seemingly by his own hand-Kate discovers a link in the case that sends the investigation in a direction no one could imagine and revealing the horrifying truth of what really happened that terrible night thirty-five years ago, when an Amish father and his four children perished-and his young wife disappeared without a trace. And, as Kate knows-the past never truly dies . . . in The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo's new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally?Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was-and those parallels dog her. But the more Kate learns about Rachael's life, the more she's convinced that her dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her a lot of love and enemies aplenty-both English and Amish. As the case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn't want Rachael's past-or the mysteries she took with her to the grave-coming to light. As Kate digs deeper, violence strikes again, this time hitting close to home. Will Kate uncover the truth and bring a murderer to justice? Or will a killer bent on protecting a terrible past stop her once and for all-and let the fallen be forgotten?

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author Linda Castillo returns with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate Burkholder for help, and she is surprised to recognize the driver: fellow cop and her former friend, Gina Colorosa.Years before, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy and patrol officers in Columbus, but time and distance have taken them down two very different paths. Now, Gina reveals a shocking story of betrayal and revenge that has forced her to run for her life. She's desperate for protection, and the only person she can trust is Kate-but can Kate trust her? Or will Gina's dark past put them all in danger?As a blizzard bears down on Painters Mill, Kate helps Gina go into hiding on Adam's farm. While the tough-skinned Gina struggles to adjust to the Amish lifestyle, Kate and state agent John Tomasetti delve into the incident that caused Gina to flee. But as Kate gets closer to the truth, a killer lies in wait. When violence strikes, she must confront a devastating truth that changes everything she thought she knew not only about friendship, but the institution to which she's devoted her life.

New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a 'master of the genre' (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. Now, together for the first time in print, A Simple Murder features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder.

From bestselling author Linda Castillo comes SHAMED, in which a devastating murder exposes an Amish family's tortured past.

Eight years ago Joseph King was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison. He was a 'fallen' Amish man and, according to local law enforcement, a known drug user with a violent temper. Now King has escaped, and he's headed for Painters Mill.

A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing thriller in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling series.