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The New York Times bestselling series hailed as "gripping" (People magazine) and "compelling" (USA Today) returns with Police Chief Kate Burkholder called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm. The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with...

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities...

Linda Castillo follows her instant New York Times bestseller, Shamed, with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious...

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE DEAD WILL TELL comes a new short story offering a glimpse into Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past and her Amish roots. It's autumn in Painter's Mill, and fourteen year old Katie Burkholder has been tasked with picking apples in Zimmerman’s...

La terza raccolta degli audiolibri di Linda Castillo con protagonista Kate Burkholder riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Tracce dal passato", "Il segreto nascosto" e "Dopo la tempesta". "Tracce dal passato": Tutti a Painters Mill sanno che sulla fattoria degli Hochstetler aleggia un tragico mistero. Ma solo in pochi ricordano il terribile segreto tramandato dal sospiro del tempo, ora riemerso dalle viscere della terra per perseguitarli.

Nat Jennings nearly died the night her family was murdered - and spent the next three years wishing she had. Now, she is returning to the sleepy bayou town of Bellerose, Louisiana, driven by cryptic messages only she can hear - messages pleading for her help. After serving six years for a crime he didn't commit, Nick Bastille is back in Bellerose, mourning his precious son, who drowned while Nick was away at prison, unable to protect him. But when Nat approaches him with a shocking revelation, his denial slowly turns to a desire for revenge.

Wenn die Flammen eine schreckliche Wahrheit verbergen – der 16. Fall für Polizeichefin Kate Burkholder. Mitten in der Nacht wird Polizeichefin Kate Burkholder von einem Anruf geweckt: Bei einem Feuer in einem einsamen Waldstück ist ein amischer Mann umgekommen. Der Verstorbene wurde an einen Pfahl gefesselt und lebendig verbrannt. Kate weiß nur zu gut, dass die Amischen ihre Probleme lieber ohne Einmischung der Außenwelt lösen, doch nach und nach erfährt sie, dass der Tote vor Kurzem aus der Gemeinde ausgeschlossen wurde. Warum wurde er so bestraft?

Era una notte piovosa quella in cui un padre amish tornava a casa con i suoi tre figli, quando un'auto impazzita materializzatasi dal nulla piomba a tutta velocità su di loro. Quello che in un primo momento sembra un tragico ma ordinario incidente stradale, assume un significato più sinistro quando è chiaro che l'impatto non è stato colposo. Ma chi poteva aver motivo di uccidere un diacono amish e due dei suoi figli?

After a childhood betrayal and tragedy, Lindsey Metcalf made a vow always to protect her younger sister, Traci. Although the two women have drifted apart, Lindsey's worst fears are triggered when Traci mysteriously disappears from her home in Seattle. After filing a missing persons report, she learns that her sister has been hiding a lurid double life. Having had her fair share of run-ins with the police, Traci isn't high on the department's list of priorities. And the only man able to help Lindsey find the truth has his own trouble with the law....  

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder confronts a mysterious beast terrorizing the residents of Painters Mill in this new original short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo. On a foggy spring night, an Amish man crashes his buggy after a large, unidentified animal spooks his horse. Kate...

La quarta raccolta degli audiolibri di Linda Castillo con protagonista Kate Burkholder riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Inganno", "Tra i malvagi", "Solo per pochi" ed "Una strada oscura".

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri di Linda Castillo con protagonista Kate Burkholder riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Costretta al silenzio", "La lunga notte" e "In un vicolo cieco".

Linda Castillo's bestselling series has been called "gripping" [People] and "impossible to put down" [Bookpage] and the "teeth chattering suspense" [USA Today] continues with GONE MISSING—a deeply chilling novel about a rite of passage gone horribly wrong. Rumspringa is the time when Amish...

An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in Linda Castillo's Her Last Breath, a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world. A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a...

"Narrator Kathleen McInerney quickly pulls listeners into the frightening mystery...Her emotionally balanced portrayal of Burkholder is believable and makes listeners feel like they are solving the mystery right alongside her." -- AudioFile Magazine Chief of Police Kate Burkholder races against...

From Linda Castillo, the New York Times bestselling author of A Gathering of Secrets, comes a new Kate Burkholder short mystery, In Plain Sight: a story of star-crossed love and murder in Amish country. Seventeen year old Amish boy, Noah Kline, is struck by a car as he walks alongside a dark...

A sadistic killer pushed Chicago cop Marty Hogan past her limits - and it was all caught on video. She lost her job, her sense of self, her entire world until an open detective position in small-town Texas gave her a chance at redemption. Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows all about mistakes and second chances - he's still earning his own, so he's willing to give Marty the opportunity to prove herself. But when her ex-partner is murdered, it looks like Chicago is coming to small-town Texas with a vengeance.

Das friedliche Städtchen Painters Mill wird zutiefst erschüttert, als eine amische Großmutter auf einer verlassenen Farm brutal ermordet und ihre siebenjährige Enkelin entführt wird. Kate Burkholder versucht mit allen Mitteln, das Kind zu finden. Die Familie lebt in einer ultra-konservativen amischen Siedlung am Fluss, sie ist äußerst hilfsbereit, doch Kate merkt schnell, dass sie etwas verschweigen. Aber warum? Als sie die fürchterliche Wahrheit aufdeckt, zweifelt sie zum ersten Mal an ihrem eigenen Glauben, an den Amischen, an der ganzen Welt.

Cases of random violence have erupted across the country - murderous acts committed by previously non-violent people. Detective Adam Boedecker, grieving brother to one of the suicide-murderers, has discovered that all the suspects had taken a new breakthrough anti-depressant, Valazine. Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to pharmaceutical research. She's at the top of her game and slated to be awarded top honors for her latest breakthrough drug. Until a detective contacts her about a recent wave of homicides.

A troubling discovery leads Chief of Police Kate Burkholder on a strange investigation ending at a long-abandoned Amish farm in this short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo. When a family dog brings home a human bone, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself on a desperate...