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Gone Missing: A Thriller (Kate Burkholder #4)
by
Linda Castillo (Goodreads Author)
Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It’s an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the church. But when a young teen disappears without a trace, the carefree fun comes to an abrupt and sinister end, and fear spreads through the community like a contagion.
A missing child is a nightmare to al...more
A missing child is a nightmare to al...more
ebook, Nook, 247 pages
Published
June 19th 2012
by Minotaur Books
(first published June 1st 2012)
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This was a great addition to the Kate Burkholder lexicon. This series just improves with each tale told. Peeks into the light/dark of the Amish community, amazingly 'real' characters, suspense, mystery and the ever burgeoning love story of two broken people always in the background.
Ms Castillo is very adept at weaving the pieces into rich, satisfying and beautiful tapestry.
I am already waiting impatiently waiting for the next leg of the journey.
Ms Castillo is very adept at weaving the pieces into rich, satisfying and beautiful tapestry.
I am already waiting impatiently waiting for the next leg of the journey.
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In her latest novel, Linda Castillo again creates a world of thrilling suspense and intrigue flavored with a spicy side of sizzle that leaves readers hungry for more!
Her strong protagonist,Kate Burkholder, approaches her latest case with tenacity tempered with compassion. Her complicated and precarious balance as a small town police cheif, who happens to be formerly Amish,is challenged in new and uncertain directions as her relationship with the edgy state agent John Tomasetti begins to take on...more
Her strong protagonist,Kate Burkholder, approaches her latest case with tenacity tempered with compassion. Her complicated and precarious balance as a small town police cheif, who happens to be formerly Amish,is challenged in new and uncertain directions as her relationship with the edgy state agent John Tomasetti begins to take on...more
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The fourth entry in the Kate Burkholder series crackles with energy. I would recommend starting at the beginning with “Sworn to Silence” (a Goodreads recommendation for me), because you will be instantly caught up with the characters, the bucolic Ohio setting, and the complex plots. Character growth is evidence from book to book, which is a primary reason for reading the books in order; reading about the changes only enhances the stories.
In this book, an Amish teen has disappeared without a trac...more
In this book, an Amish teen has disappeared without a trac...more
The novel Gone Missing by Linda Castillo is another suspense novel involving Police Chief Katie Burkholder who grew up Amish and is now police chief in the community she grew up in. Although this novel involves Amish people and beliefs, it is very different from most of the novels popular today that take place in Amish settings. The Amish lifestyle is a predominant theme throughout the book but in this novel it is the background for a murder case which ends up involving other missing young Amish...more
Kate Burkholder, 33, has been the Chief of Police in small Painters Mill, Ohio for three years. She spends a lot of time corralling cows and teenagers, because the Amish in this community pretty much police their own. The one exception is the time of “Rumspringa,” when Amish adolescents are allowed to sow some wild oats before they choose either to become baptized in the Amish church or to leave the community. As it happens, Kate is one of those young people who left, after a traumatic incident...more
I wasn't mad keen on the third book in this series and - having got this one out of the library - I was happy not to have paid any money for it.
A wafer-thin plot stretches out across what felt like a pretty short novel - light on characterisation and heavy on repetition of descriptions, explanations and an overview of what everyone was wearing. I suspect the Amish hook to these novels might be limiting things slightly, at first it provided an original and interesting setting, now it's merely tir...more
A wafer-thin plot stretches out across what felt like a pretty short novel - light on characterisation and heavy on repetition of descriptions, explanations and an overview of what everyone was wearing. I suspect the Amish hook to these novels might be limiting things slightly, at first it provided an original and interesting setting, now it's merely tir...more
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Gone Missing really does pick up where Breaking Silence left off, especially the relationship between Kate and Tomasetti. There relationship is moving forward at a pace that leaves Kate a bit uncomfortable, but leaves the reader saying "DO IT! DO IT!". I also liked how the author moves the story at a nice pace and when the big discovery is about to be made, the tempo of the story picks up rather quickly. You can't help but just whip through the pages as fa...more
Gone Missing really does pick up where Breaking Silence left off, especially the relationship between Kate and Tomasetti. There relationship is moving forward at a pace that leaves Kate a bit uncomfortable, but leaves the reader saying "DO IT! DO IT!". I also liked how the author moves the story at a nice pace and when the big discovery is about to be made, the tempo of the story picks up rather quickly. You can't help but just whip through the pages as fa...more
The novel Gone Missing by Linda Castillo is another suspense novel involving Police Chief Katie Burkholder who grew up Amish and is now police chief in the community she grew up in. Although this novel involves Amish people and beliefs, it is very different from most of the novels popular today that take place in Amish settings. The Amish lifestyle is a predominant theme throughout the book but in this novel it is the background for a murder case which ends up involving other missing young Amish...more
Linda Castillo's imagination is almost as dark as John Sandford's (Prey Series). The climax here will haunt me for a while. The story will be a chilling movie.
Related entirely in the voice of Kate Burkholder, the reader never hears from the bad guys in dialogue or shared thoughts a la Sandford. Also, the horror is not ongoing throughout the story, but clobbers you in the last few chapters. I was totally unprepared. It's possible to feel that the clues are beginning to lead to an arrest, a rescue...more
Related entirely in the voice of Kate Burkholder, the reader never hears from the bad guys in dialogue or shared thoughts a la Sandford. Also, the horror is not ongoing throughout the story, but clobbers you in the last few chapters. I was totally unprepared. It's possible to feel that the clues are beginning to lead to an arrest, a rescue...more
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Another great entry in the Amish series by Linda Castillo. My only problem was the writing seemed odd at the very beginning of the book. I can't say why but it did not feel at first like Linda Castillo's voice. And this one has a cliffhanger, which is also new. Other than that, loved the book, loved the continuation of the characters.
Book Description
Publication Date: June 19, 2012 | Series: Kate Burkholder (Book 4)
Linda Castillo’s bestselling series has been called “gripping” [People] and “impos...more
Book Description
Publication Date: June 19, 2012 | Series: Kate Burkholder (Book 4)
Linda Castillo’s bestselling series has been called “gripping” [People] and “impos...more
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Things seem to be going slow in Painter's Mill Ohio where Kate Burkholder is Chief of Police. Her last call was breaking up a fight between teenagers and one of the teens happens to be her niece Sadie, who is a fifteen year old Amish teen in her rumspringa. When Kate gets a call from her friend State Agent John Tomasetti wanting her to come help him with a case where two Amish teens are missing she decides to do it. While out of town working on the case she gets a call from Painter's Mill tellin...more
I came across this series just recently, which means I had the pleasure of reading all four of the existing Kate Burkholder books back to back. The stories are filled with suspense, and Castillo's characters are intelligent and very human, warts and all. Kate Burkholder is solid, but with a troubled past that continues to haunt, and John Tomasetti is marvelous (and sexy,) albeit deeply scarred by his own tragic past. The assorted supporting characters are equally well drawn and fully fleshed. Th...more
This is the second book in this series that I have read/listened to. The two main cop characters -- Kate and Tomasetti -- are well-developed and very believable while the plots are intricately developed. While the novels are well-written, I find myself growing more and more disturbed at the way the author presents the Amish in her books.
This fourth book in the series includes an audio interview at the end which gave some insight into the author's interest and motivation in the portrayal of the A...more
This fourth book in the series includes an audio interview at the end which gave some insight into the author's interest and motivation in the portrayal of the A...more
Gone Missing is the fourth of Castillo's Kate Burkholder series and, like its predecessors, is hard to put down. Amish teen girls are going missing, and Kate is asked by Agent Tomasetti, her love interest in the series, to consult with the BCII on finding them, as Kate was raised in the Amish community of Painter's Mill, OH.
I won't get into the plot, other than to say it moves quickly and efficiently towards a resolution with very little waste - i.e. lame plot devices, unrelated conversations, e...more
I won't get into the plot, other than to say it moves quickly and efficiently towards a resolution with very little waste - i.e. lame plot devices, unrelated conversations, e...more
GONE MISSING is the fourth book in the Chief of Police Kate Burkholder series. A complex series that should be read in order and one that once again finds deep rooted evil hiding behind the pastoral beauty of Ohio’s Amish country. Long before she was Police of Chief of Painters Mill, Kate knew first hand that evil was present and could do horrible things. She knows that a missing child could mean several very bad things.
Agent John Tomasetti with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Inv...more
Agent John Tomasetti with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Inv...more
Jul 06, 2012
Karen & Gerard
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Gone Missing by Linda Castillo is about a police investigation involving several missing Amish teens. The cops don’t know if they just left on their own or if foul play was involved. Some disappearances are cold cases but some are recently and they wonder if they are all related. Talking to the victims’ families is tough because of the Amish’s general reluctance to trust anyone outside their own community. Kate Burkholder, having grown up Amish, the chief of police for a small Amish community is...more
Gone Missing, by Linda Castillo, a-minus, Narrated by Kathleen McInerney, Produced by Macmillan Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
This is the fourth in the Police Chief Kate Burkholder series. Kate is police chief in a small town which borders on an Amish community-one in which Kate grew up herself in the Amish faith, and which she left without committing to the church. She is therefore an outsider in the normal “Englisher” community as well as considered a traitor to the Amish community. But s...more
This is the fourth in the Police Chief Kate Burkholder series. Kate is police chief in a small town which borders on an Amish community-one in which Kate grew up herself in the Amish faith, and which she left without committing to the church. She is therefore an outsider in the normal “Englisher” community as well as considered a traitor to the Amish community. But s...more
An excellent addition to the Chief Kate Burkholder series, Gone, nevertheless, seems a little leaner than the first 3. I don't know whether it is technically shorter or if it just seems so because the world is established and doesn't need a lot of set-up. In this book, we have Kate called in on a consult by Tomasetti in the case of several missing Amish teens from different communities. But when a girl from her own community, Sadie, who shares familial ties with Kate, goes missing, she feels com...more
Having discovered Castillo with the release of her second title, I bought the first, read both, and now am utterly hooked. Her formerly Amish Sheriff Kate Burkholder is a wonderfully complex character. Her past tinges every day, and every crime, with her own anguish which re-emerges with particular force when the crimes involve the Amish community. Gone Missing is a gripping, stark, brutal novel, with a premise all too familiar in this day of cult kidnappings and missing teens. From the opening...more
Linda Castillo's latest release - Gone Missing - is the fourth book in her popular Kate Burkholder series.
Kate is the Chief of Police in Painters Mill, Ohio, home to a large Amish population. Kate herself was raised Amish but has chosen to leave and lives as an "Englischer". Her background makes her invaluable in dealing with the Amish community.
State Agent John Tomasetti asks Kate to consult on a case he's working - a missing teenage Amish girl. As they delve deeper into the case, it appears t...more
Kate is the Chief of Police in Painters Mill, Ohio, home to a large Amish population. Kate herself was raised Amish but has chosen to leave and lives as an "Englischer". Her background makes her invaluable in dealing with the Amish community.
State Agent John Tomasetti asks Kate to consult on a case he's working - a missing teenage Amish girl. As they delve deeper into the case, it appears t...more
I tremendously enjoyed the first three books in Castillo's Kate Burkholder series, and this fourth one lived up to the expectations created by those that came before it, although I have to say the ending of Gone Missing left me wanting more--in a couple different ways.
Living in a central Pennsylvania area populated with numerous Amish families and farms heightens my interest in this Amish mystery series, and, as Castillo continues with the personal and professional doings of two law enforcement...more
Living in a central Pennsylvania area populated with numerous Amish families and farms heightens my interest in this Amish mystery series, and, as Castillo continues with the personal and professional doings of two law enforcement...more
Apr 02, 2012
Carol
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I'm not certain where my fascination with The Amish comes from but I'll bet I have plenty of company in regards to their lifestyle. This is one reason Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder series has such appeal. Kate was in the life, one of The Plain People and chose to leave. Exploring the reasons and watching her in her role as Chief of Police of Painter's Mill, Ohio is like being a voyeur. I get to watch Kate and the people she serves, Amish and Englisher, who reside side by side in this rural to...more
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Yay! Another decent murder-mystery author. I've been looking and saw this sitting on the shelf at the library. I'm am glad I picked it up. And I just found out this was book 4 in a series (although it can easily be read as a stand alone) so I'm definitely going to go backwards and read the first 3.
Kate is a police chief in a small town in Ohio that holds an Amish community. Kate has ties to the community as she grew up Amish and turned her back on their ways when she was old enough to make a de...more
Kate is a police chief in a small town in Ohio that holds an Amish community. Kate has ties to the community as she grew up Amish and turned her back on their ways when she was old enough to make a de...more
This is the fourth book in this series, about an ex-Amish female who also happens to be the police chief in a small Pennsylvania town - and I have read and enjoyed all four. The police chief, Kate, carries too much excess psychological baggage for my taste, but she manages to pull herself together enough to solve seemingly unsolvable crimes, all, naturally, involving the Amish. The writing is fresh, clear, the plot fast-paced, and the dark, brooding Tomasetti, who should be a basket case accordi...more
Read it in a day...couldn't put it down and then had trouble sleeping. It's a parents' worst nightmare-when a child disapears, and in this book it's compounded by the fact that the missing teenagers are Amish. Another great installment in the Kate Burkholder series-love the tension and attraction between Kate and Tomasetti!
"Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It’s an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the chur...more
"Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It’s an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the chur...more
This is the fourth installment in Castillo’s mystery series featuring the formerly Amish chief of police, Kate Burkholder. Castillo extends the plausibility of the series here with spreading the crimes over a more widespread area to somewhat return the small Ohio town’s credibility as a “sleepy country town”. The crimes here - and the descriptions - take a darker turn than some of the previous installments. But the writing itself is beautifully crafted with Castillo’s strong sense of visual scen...more
“Gone Missing” by Linda Castillo, published by Minotaur Books.
Category – Mystery/Thriller
Kate Burkholder, as you know, is the subject of four books by Linda Castillo. The stories are very unusual in that they take place in the Amish country of Ohio. Kate is the Chief of Police at Painters Mill, an Amish Community in rural Ohio. Kate was hired by Painters Mill because she was Amish but due to circumstances left the community. Kate, due her background, is able to communicate with the Amish. The Am...more
Category – Mystery/Thriller
Kate Burkholder, as you know, is the subject of four books by Linda Castillo. The stories are very unusual in that they take place in the Amish country of Ohio. Kate is the Chief of Police at Painters Mill, an Amish Community in rural Ohio. Kate was hired by Painters Mill because she was Amish but due to circumstances left the community. Kate, due her background, is able to communicate with the Amish. The Am...more
The first thing that struck me as unusual here is that the 4th book in the series doesn’t have Silence in the title- the previous 3 in the Amish series did…and that was only the beginning of the changes.
The changes- are miniscule and aren’t overwhelming in a manner that makes you set the book on fire or want to don sparkly fangs. They don’t suffer the plot and spoil the writer(a lame take on the spare the rod, spoil the child phrase of my misbegotten youth.), but they do leave me giving this gre...more
The changes- are miniscule and aren’t overwhelming in a manner that makes you set the book on fire or want to don sparkly fangs. They don’t suffer the plot and spoil the writer(a lame take on the spare the rod, spoil the child phrase of my misbegotten youth.), but they do leave me giving this gre...more
Gone Missing is the 4th book in the only mystery series I actively keep up with. The series follows Kate Burkholder, chief of police in a small Ohio town, and her love interest, John Tomesetti, agent for some bureau in Ohio. Kate was raised Amish, but left that way of life as a teen. Every book follows some sort of crime/murder done to the Amish.
In this book, Kate wades outside of her small community when she is asked to help investigate a series of missing Amish teens. All of these teens were...more
In this book, Kate wades outside of her small community when she is asked to help investigate a series of missing Amish teens. All of these teens were...more
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New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence, the Holt Medallion and a nomination for the Rita. She lives in Texas with her husband and is currently at work on her next thriller, also set in Amish Country and featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder.
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