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Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

Linda Castillo

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Feb 19, 2020 Pam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-fiction, 2020-books-read, audio-book, ohio

AUTHOR Castillo, Linda
TITLE Pray for Silence
DATE READ 02/19/20
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2010/ audio libby / 11 h4 27 min
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #2 Kate Burkholder
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 30/120;
GROUP READ
TIME/PLACE 2009/Ohio
CHARACTERS Kate Burkholder/chief of police in Amish town of Painters Mill
COMMENTS This is the second entry in the Kate Burkholder series. Kate was raised Amish but was a victim of a violent crime as a girl and has s ...more

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Nov 04, 2014 Windy rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this crime story which has detectives who have troubled pasts which are resurrected by the investigation.

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Feb 21, 2019 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: series, read-in-2019, mystery, police, ohio, amish

The second book in the Kate Burkholder series. One of Kate's deputies hears a scream while on night patrol and finds the entire Plank family murdered. The investigation soon centers on 15 year old daughter Mary who had a secret relationship with an unknown English man. The Planks were Amish. I didn't find this book as engaging as the first in the series. The murders are described in grisly detail at the beginning of the book. Then the investigation bogs down for quite awhile. Kate doesn't do com ...more

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