read on my iPhone
2017 Minotaur Books
56 pgs.
Adult Mystery/Short Story
Finished July 4, 2018
Goodreads rating: 4.04 - 807 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary Rural Amish Country OHIO
First line/s: "Alma Fisher held up the mirror and stared at her reflection."
My comments: This is the first short story in the series that hasn't seemed rushed and fit really well into the short story category. The only question I have is who paid for all the food and entertainment of the Amish rager? Ribs and beer and a live band for 200 people? Whew! Not a bad story at all, and it includes a tiny glimpse of Tomasetti, too!
Goodreads synopsis: Bucolic Painters Mill is plunged into darkness in this new short mystery, from the New York Times bestselling author of Among the Wicked, featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder.
It’s Friday the 13th in Painters Mill and rumors of an Amish “rager”—a huge outdoor party rife with underage drinking—puts Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and her small department on edge. To make matters worse, Painters Mill is in the midst of a county-wide power outage. At the height of the rager, a teenage Amish girl is attacked with a hammer and left for dead. Kate is called to the scene—an abandoned farm teeming with loud music and rowdy behavior—to find the girl unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. With the girl in a coma and an unknown attacker on the loose, Kate must discover who would want to hurt her, and why, before it’s too late.
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