Police Chief Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm.
The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, ... read full description
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Aug 27, 2011
Georgette
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Captain Kate Burkholder has just come back from escaping death for the second time in as many years. She's immediately brought into another murder of another family in the small Amish community she polices. Her sometimes partner in crime(and love) returns, but the relationship has been irrevocably damaged by her close brush with death and her growing friendship with a FBI official. Will she regain her wits and police smarts, even when having to depend upon her long-distance detective and push aw
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Aug 17, 2011
Kevintipple
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The third novel in this mystery series, “Breaking Silence” by Linda Castillo, is quite possibly the most disturbing book to date. Police Chief Kate Burkholder is hard at work trying to stop a series of attacks against the Amish while solving a complex murder case.
At first, what happened that cold December morning at the Slabaugh farm appeared to be an accident. The 5:00 a.m. phone call signaled something bad had happened before Chief Kate Burkholder was told of the family nightmare. More...
At first, what happened that cold December morning at the Slabaugh farm appeared to be an accident. The 5:00 a.m. phone call signaled something bad had happened before Chief Kate Burkholder was told of the family nightmare. More...
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Aug 16, 2011
Riccarla
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I read this book before the others in the series and I had to go out and find them because this book is great.
Kate Burkholder is the chief of police in a small Ohio town with a large Amish population. She was born Amish but left in her teens. Now she's back and investigating crimes in Amish country.
This time, there are Amish hate crimes. They have been singled out for harassment that escalates from insults to beatings, animal slaughter, and molotov cocktails. There is eve More...
Kate Burkholder is the chief of police in a small Ohio town with a large Amish population. She was born Amish but left in her teens. Now she's back and investigating crimes in Amish country.
This time, there are Amish hate crimes. They have been singled out for harassment that escalates from insults to beatings, animal slaughter, and molotov cocktails. There is eve More...
Aug 10, 2011
Shannon
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This is the third title in the series by Castillo which features police chief Kate Burkholder, and is probably my favorite thus far. The writing is tight and the ending, unexpected (at least for me, but then I never figure anything out until the very end). I love watching Castillo's characters develop, grow, backslide, grow again...acting just as we all do in real life. And, as an Ohioan and someone who is fascinated by Amish culture, I particularly enjoy that the series is set in Ohio's Amis
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Jul 31, 2011
Brenda
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Someone is committing hate crimes against the Amish in and around Painter's Mill Ohio, such as killing livestock, and running buggies off of roads, its gotten so bad that the state has sent in John Tomasetti to look into it. When county gets a call to go to the Slabaugh farm what they find is the shocking, the adults at the farm have all fallen into a manure pit in the barn and died, it appears to be an accident but the county coroner soon thinks differently. Have the vandals stepped up their ga
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Jul 21, 2011
Nancy
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There seems to be a growing trend in reading the last page or three of a book so you know what is coming and which characters to root for. Well, do not do it with this book!! Linda Castillo has a knack for leading the reader down a fascinating trail and whacking you upside the head with a zinger of an ending, so if you want to cheat and not take the time with this book, you will be disappointing yourself and not getting the full intensity of Ms Castillo’s writing.
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Jul 18, 2011
Sarai
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My one issue with this book is the repetition that takes place in the first 1/3 of the book. The phrases 'I'd heard the same thing hundreds of times as a kid,' 'cases can take a toll on a cop,' and the idea that the sheriff can't care for kids were repeated many times, enough that it started to interfere with my enjoyment of the book. But between the first 1/3 and first 1/2 the repetition dwindled away and it almost felt like the rest of the book was written by someone else - not a completely di
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Jul 01, 2011
Luanne
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Here's another great series that I'd heard good things about from my patrons but hadn't yet had a chance to read. I just finished Breaking Silence, the lastest release in Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder series. And yes, they were right! I'll be adding Castillo to my list of must read authors.
Castillo has created a unique character in Kate Burkholder. She is the chief of police in the town of Painters Mill - a town that also shares close proximity with a large Amish community. Kate he More...
Castillo has created a unique character in Kate Burkholder. She is the chief of police in the town of Painters Mill - a town that also shares close proximity with a large Amish community. Kate he More...
Jun 26, 2011
Breaking Silence, by Linda Costillo, b-plus, narrated by Kathleen McInerney, produced by Macmillan Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
This is the third in the Police Chieg Kate Burkholder series. Chief Burkholder was raised Amish but left the Amish family as a teenager and never went back. She went away to be a police chief in a large city, but then came back to her small Ohio town. While the Amish community doesn’t necessarily trust her because she’s no longer one of them, they d More...
This is the third in the Police Chieg Kate Burkholder series. Chief Burkholder was raised Amish but left the Amish family as a teenager and never went back. She went away to be a police chief in a large city, but then came back to her small Ohio town. While the Amish community doesn’t necessarily trust her because she’s no longer one of them, they d More...
Jun 18, 2011
Cheryl
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Chief Kate Burkholder receives a call. It appears that there are three bodies out on the Slabaugh farm. At first it seems an unfortunate accident that Mr. Slabaugh, his wife and his brother fell into the manure pit and died of lack of oxygen. Though, after the autopsy report is finished, it seems that the Slabaugh’s deaths were the result of foul play. Luckily for Kate, she will not be alone when she solves this triple murder. She is joined by her lover, FBI agent John Tomasetti.
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Dec 04, 2011
Charlotte
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Once again, author Linda Castillo, has taken us to the fictional town of Painters Mill. Chief of Police, Kate Burkholder is baffled by the steady stream of hate crimes against the Amish in her town. And one night it goes too far when three members of the same family are murdered. That is when the state sends John Tomasetti in to help Kate find the people behind these hate crimes. Together they discover that not all of the crimes are linked More...
Once again, author Linda Castillo, has taken us to the fictional town of Painters Mill. Chief of Police, Kate Burkholder is baffled by the steady stream of hate crimes against the Amish in her town. And one night it goes too far when three members of the same family are murdered. That is when the state sends John Tomasetti in to help Kate find the people behind these hate crimes. Together they discover that not all of the crimes are linked More...
Sep 16, 2011
Karen & Gerard
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Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo is her third book that has Kate as the lead cop trying to solve a crime against the Amish. This book is a page-turner. I thought I finally nailed who the killer was only to find out I was wrong, as usual. The ending is really good; didn't see it coming at all! This book is well worth reading. I give this 1 1/2 wow rating!
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Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo left me stunned! If you like a good murder mystery and stories about t More...
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Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo left me stunned! If you like a good murder mystery and stories about t More...
Jan 03, 2012
Patty
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Castillo just keeps getting better and better. In this book there are several things happening and it is up to Kate and her team, along with Tomasetti to determine if they are tied together or separate crimes.
When a husband, wife and uncle are killed Kate is determined to find out who killed the mild mannered Amish people, and also to get some help for the four children ranging in age from 17 to about 8. At the same time there are a series of hate crimes being done around the area, a More...
When a husband, wife and uncle are killed Kate is determined to find out who killed the mild mannered Amish people, and also to get some help for the four children ranging in age from 17 to about 8. At the same time there are a series of hate crimes being done around the area, a More...
Jul 24, 2011
Jackie
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I keep coming back to Ms. Castillo's books. I don't think that it is because of the characters alone (although sometimes I think the two "wounded-police-officers-with-a-past" thing is a bit overdone), nor is it plot or writing alone. I just seem to like the complete package. I read this particular book in an afternoon and liked it. I like the setting, but I wish that the rest of the cast of characters was just a bit more developed.
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I continue, however, to be bothered by th More...
Jun 23, 2011
Kristi
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Castillo has another winner. This is the third book with the character Chief Kate Burkholder. Kate lives in Painter's Mill where there is a huge Amish population but she relates to the Amish as well as anyone can because she used to be Amish. However Kate is someone I would love to drink with and shoot the sh**. She is a strong character that holds her feelings inside because she does not want to appear vulnerable. Being Chief of Police though does not allow her to show her feelings a lot but
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Jun 20, 2011
Shawna
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This was one of the books that I had won in one of the goodreads giveaways. I was really happy when I found out that I had won because I had read the description of the book I know that this book was going to be something that I was really going to enjoy, but when I start to read the book I had know idea that it was going to be that good.
This book had me from the first page. I just love when i'm reading a thriller they start out with some type of crime, and this book did that for me. More...
This book had me from the first page. I just love when i'm reading a thriller they start out with some type of crime, and this book did that for me. More...
Jul 08, 2011
Debra
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An escalating series of incidents appears to be hate crimes against the Amish of Painter's Mill, OH (a fictional Holmes County town.) Chief Burkholder feels a special tie the crimes, expecially children hurt by them.
This is easily the best of the three so far. The narrative is tight, there isn't the fascination with violence that bothered me in the first book. Personally I wish that she work improve her sense of place - it does not really have a Holmes County feel to it, but then More...
This is easily the best of the three so far. The narrative is tight, there isn't the fascination with violence that bothered me in the first book. Personally I wish that she work improve her sense of place - it does not really have a Holmes County feel to it, but then More...
May 31, 2011
Saba
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Thriller and Amish are not two words I would have expected to see in the same sentence, but since beginning Linda Castillo's thrillers set in the small town of Painter's Mill, Ohio, MAJOR thrills are what I have come to expect.
Kate Burkholder is chief of police in Painter's Mill, a small town with a large Amish population. Having been born Amish herself, Chief Burkholder can understand some of what goes on in the Amish community and is saddened when an Amish couple and the husband's br More...
Kate Burkholder is chief of police in Painter's Mill, a small town with a large Amish population. Having been born Amish herself, Chief Burkholder can understand some of what goes on in the Amish community and is saddened when an Amish couple and the husband's br More...
Jan 10, 2012
Michael
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It's always interesting to read a police procedural from a woman's point of view and from a different culture (Amish) and this novel ticks all the right boxes (male vs. female protagonist) in the form of a female police chief and a male investigator (think unresolved sexual tension)
I do find the first person vs. the third person viewpoint in the writing a little weird as it makes it difficult for me to keep my distance when I read and it's hard to shield my reading/thinking from being More...
I do find the first person vs. the third person viewpoint in the writing a little weird as it makes it difficult for me to keep my distance when I read and it's hard to shield my reading/thinking from being More...
Jul 18, 2011
Natalie
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I rarely read mysteries, but usually enjoy the ones I do read. For some reason, I picked up the first book in this series and liked it enough to read the second and then keep my eye open for the third. I enjoy this series, although I have to wonder how many murder mysteries involving the Amish would really occur in one small Ohio town. While I liked 'Breaking Silence' I don't think it was as good as the previous novels. I actually figured out the mystery before it was revealed, which is usually
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May 31, 2011
Susan
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This is the third book in Linda Castillo's Amish series featurinng Police Chief Kate Burkholder and it starts off with a bang. How many people do you know that have been murdered in a manure pit? What a way to die. What a way to cover up evidence. What a start to this entertaining book about murder and hate crimes against the Amish. Even though it's the third book in the series, you can read it comfortably without reading the earlier two. There is enough background presented that it is no proble
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Sep 23, 2011
Dianesugars
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Well, book three in this series starts off just as exciting and interesting as books one and two. I absolutly love this thriller series by Linda Castillo! I love the characters of Kate Burkholder and John Tomsetti. They are characters that you grow to love and the author makes them likeable and believable! The author has a true gift of writing amazing twists and turns in these stories that the reader does not see coming!! Each story in this series grabs a hold of you!! You cannot put it down! In
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May 31, 2011
Tricia
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Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo
This is the third book in the Kate Burkholder series. The first book is, Sworn to Silence and the second is Pray for Silence. I loved these two books and I was thrilled to get to read Breaking Silence as an ARC.
Kate Burkholder is Chief of Police in Painters Mill, Ohio. A mix of Amish and English residents. Kate grew up Amish and can easily relate to the victims in the community. She is passionate, competant and a great character. Her team o More...
This is the third book in the Kate Burkholder series. The first book is, Sworn to Silence and the second is Pray for Silence. I loved these two books and I was thrilled to get to read Breaking Silence as an ARC.
Kate Burkholder is Chief of Police in Painters Mill, Ohio. A mix of Amish and English residents. Kate grew up Amish and can easily relate to the victims in the community. She is passionate, competant and a great character. Her team o More...
May 31, 2011
Dianne
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Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo
If you are fascinated in learning about different religions and cultures the way I am and if you happen to love Faye Kellerman and her Sanctuary (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) series, then Breaking Silence (as well as the first two books Pray for Silence: A Thriller (Kate Burkholder), Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder)) by Ms. Castillo will be right up your alley. This third book in the Kate Burkholder series can easily be read as a standalone novel, More...
If you are fascinated in learning about different religions and cultures the way I am and if you happen to love Faye Kellerman and her Sanctuary (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) series, then Breaking Silence (as well as the first two books Pray for Silence: A Thriller (Kate Burkholder), Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder)) by Ms. Castillo will be right up your alley. This third book in the Kate Burkholder series can easily be read as a standalone novel, More...
Jul 04, 2011
L-J
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The third thriller featuring Kate Burkholder, formerly Amish, and the chief of police of a small Amish/"English" town. Like the first two, a well-written page-turner (I read it in 2 sittings). It wasn't up to the standard set by the first two, which were excellent. The central mystery wasn't as complex and get-under-your-skin disturbing; this felt a little Kate Burkholder lite. Also, Castillo dumbed down a hair and spent more time telling her reader what Kate and Tomasetti were fee
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Feb 22, 2012
Ashley
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I didn't know this book was part of a series until just before I started reading it. I don't feel that not having read the first two books mattered much. Very sheldom in book three did it reference book one and two. I wasn't thrilled with this. I don't understand the 4 and 5 stars it got. Let's start with the pros. I liked the writing style and it was a quick and easy read. Also the setting was different from most books I read so it was nice to step out of the box. Cons... it just didn't have en
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May 31, 2011
Hilary
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This isn't your typical "Amish" fiction, so if you're looking for something like Beverly Lewis, this isn't the book for you. Instead, the protagonist is a formerly Amish female sheriff in a small town, investigating hate crimes against the Amish. And there's a twist. <spoiler>If you liked Presumed Innocent, there's a similar twist here.</spoiler>
The viewpoint switches between first person present tense (hers) and third person past tense. I haven't often seen t More...
The viewpoint switches between first person present tense (hers) and third person past tense. I haven't often seen t More...
Jul 09, 2011
Tonya
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I like Linda Castillo’s writing, it’s hard for me to pin point why though. I enjoy her story more than I enjoy her main characters, Kate and John are supposed to appeal to the reader because of their troubled pasts but they don’t appeal to me that way, their pasts seem too contrived to me and not real enough for me to believe in. That has been my feeling with all three of the books in the series; Kate and John are just not real enough for me to really invest my concerns in.
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Jul 16, 2011
Tiffiane
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I have been hooked on this series since book 1. I couldn't wait to read this book, seems like I've been waiting forever for it to be released! Every time I re-enter Kate's world and the small town of Painter's Mill, I get so immersed in the story that it's almost like I'm there in person.
I love reading about the Amish lifestyle and thoroughly enjoy reading about Kate and John Tomasetti's budding relationship. They are both a hot mess, and yet they seem to console and complete each More...
I love reading about the Amish lifestyle and thoroughly enjoy reading about Kate and John Tomasetti's budding relationship. They are both a hot mess, and yet they seem to console and complete each More...
Feb 02, 2012
Wendy
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I read this book not realizing that it was the third in a series. The real draw to this murder mystery is the description of the Amish way of life. While none of it was truly new information, it reinforced what I have heard though the years about the Amish wanting to be left alone by the "Englishers." The story is about a string of hate crimes and a what appears to be the accidental death of members of an Amish family (and are quickly discovered to really be murder). The police chi
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