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Breaking Silence (Kate Burkholder #3)
by
Linda Castillo (Goodreads Author)
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, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated ce
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Published
June 21st 2011
by Minotaur Books
(first published 2011)
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This, the third Kate Burkholder featured novel is, I think, the best.
we are again drawn into the Amish community of Painters Mill where Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is again on the case when tragedy strikes a local Amish family.
It's difficult to comment too much without giving away juicy plot points, but I will just say that the depth of character in this book is wonderful and it's a real page turner right to the end lots of surprise twists and "gotcha" moments. Very well written.
What I love...more
we are again drawn into the Amish community of Painters Mill where Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is again on the case when tragedy strikes a local Amish family.
It's difficult to comment too much without giving away juicy plot points, but I will just say that the depth of character in this book is wonderful and it's a real page turner right to the end lots of surprise twists and "gotcha" moments. Very well written.
What I love...more
Breaking Silennce by Linda Castillo is the 2nd novel in the Kate Burkholder series. The story takes place once again in the community of Painters Mill, Ohio and involves crimes involving Amish people. Castillo has done a fantastic job again in building the suspense through the novel leading to a surprise. Castillo has woven the Amish beliefs, customs and lifestyle throughout the story. The main character, Kate Burkholder, chief of police in Painters Mill grew up as one of the Amish people before...more
Take my two stars (almost gave it one, but that seems mean) with a grain of salt. This is not the type of book I usually read and I knew that going in. My mother in law read it and loaned it to me, otherwise I never would have picked it up. IF you enjoy this author just skip my review. This book is about a chief of police (a women in her early 30's...the first of many many unbelievable aspects of the story), who grew up amish until the age of 14. When a bunch of mysterious hate crimes and then a...more
Eines muß man Linda Castillo lassen, sie bleibt ihrem Stil treu und sie klaut auch noch bei sich selbst. Ähnelt der Beginn von Breaking Silence (Wenn die Nacht verstummt) sehr dem ersten Teil aus der Reihe mit Chief Kate Burkholder aus Painter's Mill.
Das Einzige, was diese Krimireihe aus der Mittelmäßigkeit herausheben könnte, ist, dass Amish People eine Rolle spielen. Aber hierfür wurde nur ein Wikipedia-Artikel verwurstet. Scrapp ist ein amisches Nahrungsmittel, doch aus welchen Zutaten es be...more
Das Einzige, was diese Krimireihe aus der Mittelmäßigkeit herausheben könnte, ist, dass Amish People eine Rolle spielen. Aber hierfür wurde nur ein Wikipedia-Artikel verwurstet. Scrapp ist ein amisches Nahrungsmittel, doch aus welchen Zutaten es be...more
This book can't hold a candle to Jodi Picoult's Plain Truth.
Breaking Silence didn't ring true at all. The protagonist goes on and on about her Amish roots but then is drinking and smoking and having sex without a guilty thought. Anyone who has grown up in a strict religious family until she is 14 has her sense of morality shaped by it. Half the time Kate is tired and smelly and sleep deprived and still ready for a romp in the sack. She is just so cliche: woman cop with troubled rebellious past...more
Breaking Silence didn't ring true at all. The protagonist goes on and on about her Amish roots but then is drinking and smoking and having sex without a guilty thought. Anyone who has grown up in a strict religious family until she is 14 has her sense of morality shaped by it. Half the time Kate is tired and smelly and sleep deprived and still ready for a romp in the sack. She is just so cliche: woman cop with troubled rebellious past...more
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...more
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. Three uncons...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. Three uncons...more
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 even a suspicious death cas...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 even a suspicious death cas...more
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 Amish c...more
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...more
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.
Once again, we are back in Paint...more
Once again, we are back in Paint...more
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...more
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 herself was...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 herself was...more
Jun 26, 2011
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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 do know that she...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 do know that she...more
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.
Breaking Silence...more
Breaking Silence...more
'Wenn die Nacht verstummt' ist der dritte Band mit der Polizeichefin Kate Burkholder. Auch in diesem Band geht es um das Volk der Amischen in Painters Mill die von mehreren Verbrechen heimgesucht werden.
Kate wird laut Klappentext zu ihrem persönlichsten Fall gerufen und genau das hat mich neugierig gemacht. Doch was hat mich erwartet? Der erste Mord in einer Familie ist wirklich grausam - gefunden werden Mutter, Vater und der Onkel in einer Jauchegrube. Was zunächst nach einem Unfall aussieht,...more
Kate wird laut Klappentext zu ihrem persönlichsten Fall gerufen und genau das hat mich neugierig gemacht. Doch was hat mich erwartet? Der erste Mord in einer Familie ist wirklich grausam - gefunden werden Mutter, Vater und der Onkel in einer Jauchegrube. Was zunächst nach einem Unfall aussieht,...more
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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 and there may be...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 and there may be...more
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!
(Gerard's review)
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo left me stunned! If you like a good murder mystery and stories about the Amish, this one c...more
(Gerard's review)
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo left me stunned! If you like a good murder mystery and stories about the Amish, this one c...more
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, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But, the coroner discovers that one of the victims suffered a head wound before death — clearly, foul play was involv...more
Wow. I really didn't think she could do it three times in a row but Linda Castillo has written yet another brilliant novel. This is the third book in the "Kate Berkholder" series. Her characters are wonderful. They are people you can relate to and are so well developed.
I feel as though I've learned something new about the Amish culture each time I read her books because they are so well researched. Having said that, I also feel like I've just taken the roller coaster ride of my life. You really...more
I feel as though I've learned something new about the Amish culture each time I read her books because they are so well researched. Having said that, I also feel like I've just taken the roller coaster ride of my life. You really...more
I’ve enjoyed the Kate Burkholder books so far, but in this third book in the series it feels like more of the same: a crime happening in the Amish community of Painters Mill, which is by all means a quiet and peaceful community. That is what bothers me a tiny bit: is that the crimes happen in a community where they shouldn’t be happening. Don’t get me wrong, they happen, but it doesn’t feel realistic that such evil murders happen over the span of three books, and in a few months time?
Here the vi...more
Here the vi...more
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, also aimed at...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, also aimed at...more
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.
I continue, however, to be bothered by the language. It simply is...more
I continue, however, to be bothered by the language. It simply is...more
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 th...more
Ich verfolge ja die Buchreihe rund um Kate Burkholder jetzt schon seit einiger Zeit und muss sagen, dieses hier ist Castillos bestes Buch! Tolle Hauptcharaktere, spannender Plot und ein wirklich überraschendes Ende.
Die Slabaugh Familie ist eigentlich eine ganz normale große Amish Familie, doch eines Tages wird Police Chief Kate Burkholder zu einem schrecklichen Unfall gerufen. Die Eltern und ein Onkel liegen tot in der Jauchegrube. Die vier Kinder stehen unter Schock. Zuerst sieht alles nach ein...more
Die Slabaugh Familie ist eigentlich eine ganz normale große Amish Familie, doch eines Tages wird Police Chief Kate Burkholder zu einem schrecklichen Unfall gerufen. Die Eltern und ein Onkel liegen tot in der Jauchegrube. Die vier Kinder stehen unter Schock. Zuerst sieht alles nach ein...more
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 do most readers...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 do most readers...more
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 brother are...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 brother are...more
This, the third Kate Burkholder featured novel is, I think, the best.
Following in sequence from "Sworn To Silence", "Pray For Silence", and this installment - "Breaking Silence" - we are again drawn into the Amish community of Painters Mill where Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is again on the case when tragedy strikes a local Amish family.
It's difficult to comment too much without giving away juicy plot points, but I will just say that the depth of character in this book is wonderful and it's a...more
Following in sequence from "Sworn To Silence", "Pray For Silence", and this installment - "Breaking Silence" - we are again drawn into the Amish community of Painters Mill where Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is again on the case when tragedy strikes a local Amish family.
It's difficult to comment too much without giving away juicy plot points, but I will just say that the depth of character in this book is wonderful and it's a...more
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 intruded...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 intruded...more
Breaking Silence, Linda Castillo's book 3 in a series, was as good as books 1,2, and 4 are. And in this book the crime she describes wasn't as brutal as the ones in the first two books. This was a welcome change for me. I wasn't sure if I could stomach another brutal crime scene. While crime is never welcome this book's crime at least was "mild" compared to books 1 and 2. That is true in book 4, Gone Missing, as well (since I read that one first not knowing there were 3 books that preceded it)....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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