The Dead Will Tell
- Linda Castillo
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Book Title and Author: “The Dead Will Tell” by Linda
Castillo
Rating:
5 Stars Excellent! Get your hands on the hardcover
and add it to your shelves TODAY!
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Genre:
Mystery & Thriller, Amish
Audience:
Fans of Linda Castillo’s previous Kate Burkholder novels will enjoy her
sixth novel tremendously. Readers who
enjoy mysteries from Marta Perry, Allison Brennan, and Elizabeth Adler
will also enjoy dipping their toes into Castillo’s mythical Painter’s Mill and
all of the town’s secrets.
Series: Kate Burkholder #6
Summary:
From book jacket: “Everyone 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.”
*Courtesy MacMillan
Publishing
Review and Opinion:
Right off the bat I’d like to admit that I’m a long-standing Linda
Castillo fan. Her small town setting of
Painter’s Mill has the myriad problems small towns suffer, and seems as
realistic as can be with a fictional police department solving crimes at a big
city rate. I would love to visit, but
could never move there. Too much darn
murder…
I will also admit that while I finished this book last week, I was immediately
compelled to gather the rest of the books in her Kate Burkholder series and
read them in order. Oh sure, I've read them before at some point, either on my Kindle, checked out at the
library, sitting on my bookshelf…Nevertheless, I had to have them ALL on my
Kindle, ready to go. I started “Gone
Missing” (Kate Burkholder #4) this morning and realized it would be gracious of
me to get my review done for the book that lit the fire under me.
“The Dead
Will Tell” takes Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her police department from
investigating a fresh suicide to following links that trail back to an Amish
family murdered thirty five years ago. Chief
Burkholder’s knowledge of Amish tradition come in handy, especially as they
weave through secrets that have been hidden by both the Amish and the
Englischers who know a lot more than they’re willing to tell about what happened
to the murdered family so very long ago.
I loved how
tenacious Burkholder’s character is; she’s like a pit bull with a meaty bone
and she will not let go until the puzzle pieces are put together. Adding to the delicious mystery that had me
curling my toes during some chapters is the bonus of Burkholder’s heady
relationship with John Tomasetti.
They’re finally playing house, but just as things are getting comfy one
of the guilty bastards that killed Tomasetti’s wife and two little girls is set
free in a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Tomasetti has to manage his hunger for justice while staying within the
bounds of his current relationship.
Castillo
keeps all the regular Painter’s Mill Police Department players front and
center, pulling their share of the weight.
Glock is watching Burkholder’s back at every turn, T.J. and Skid as well
as Pickles play their roles. Mona and
Lois are dispatching trouble over the radio and putting out fires at every
turn. Note: Ms. Castillo, WHEN are you
going to make Mona a bona fide police officer?
It’s going to happen, right?
My bottom
line is “The Dead Will Tell” is a sure fire winner! If readers have not had the delight of
reading other books in the series, this book is a great place to start. Castillo has always done a marvelous job of
adding backstory into her current novel so they do not need to be read in
order. Once readers HAVE finished “The
Dead Will Tell”, I can almost guarantee that they’ll be reaching for the other
books in this series.
FYI: Linda
Castillo’s author website http://www.lindacastillo.com/
All books in
the Linda Castillo Chief Kate Burkholder series:
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Sworn
to Silence (Kate Burkholder #1)
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Pray
for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2)
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Breaking
Silence (Kate Burkholder #3)
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Gone
Missing (Kate Burkholder #4)
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Her
Last Breath (Kate Burkholder #5)
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The
Dead Will Tell (Kate Burkholder #6)
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