2011, Minotaur Books
302 pgs.
Written for adults
Awesome (5)
I think this was the best so far in her series.
Setting: Painters, Mil, Ohio contemporary wintertime
OSS: The murder of a family in a manure pit and a spree of hate crimes toward the Amish keep Chief Burkholder and her lover John Tomasetti busy.
The Title: Castillo is using "silence" as the backbone of each of her titles. In this installment, one of the aspects of Kate's investigation is that the Amish are incredibly silent and won't help the police with information that might helptheir investigation.
1st Sentence: " The dogs were going to be a problem."
I like Kate. She's interesting. She has flaws. She has a backstory that keeps creeping into her current life. She drinks waaaay too much, and knows it.
I also really like the way that Castillo creates her characters and allows her readers to really feel like they know them. This book is both character driven AND story driven. I found it very difficult to put down.
Two parents and an uncle are found dead in a manure pit - apparently the methane gas created can be quickly toxic. Throughout the book, we discover that things are not as they seem originally. We meet the four orphaned children and are drawn into their lives as Chief Kate Burkholder is. Ike, Sam, Salome, and Mose. Ages 10 to 17. Hmm.
At the same time, Amish are being targeted, buggies pushed into the ditch, barns set on fire, stock killed, members assaulted. These are hard to investigate, and it's interesting to see how clues are found and check out some of the possibilities.
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