Book
Shamed / Linda Castillo.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250142863
- Physical Description: 294 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel of suspense"--Jacket. |
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| Subject: | Women police chiefs > Fiction. Amish > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Ohio > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headingley Municipal Library | CAS (Text) | 36440000273671 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 May #1
After going out to harvest walnuts from an abandoned property on a fall day, an Amish woman has been brutally murdered and her seven-year-old granddaughter is missing. The girl's younger sister, who was with them, is unharmed but can only say that Da Dievel is responsible. The hours ticking painfully by, Painters Mill, Ohio, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder won't rest until she finds young Elsie. Kate, who grew up Amish, uncovers a family secret she thinks could be the key, but no one's talking, Elsie's nowhere to be foundâand the killer isn't done. While Kate's made peace with leaving the fold, her frustration over not getting the whole story and the reminders to stay in her lane add to the already unbearable pressure. In her swiftly paced, eleventh entry in the best-selling Burkholder series, Castillo (A Gathering of Secrets, 2018) again captures Kate's empathic understanding of Amish culture and Deitsch, and adds atmosphere with falling-down, peeling-paint, rural settings. If they haven't already, readers looking for a fierce-female-fronted procedural should check out Catillo's best-selling series, from the get-go. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 May #2
A murder and a kidnapping put tremendous pressure on a formerly Amish police officer. Mary Yoder and two of her grandchildren are picking walnuts at a deserted homestead when Mary is brutally murdered by someone who also abducts her 7-year-old granddaughter, Elsie Helmuth. Painters Mill police chief Kate Burkholder is on patrol when a panicked Amish girl, who looks about 5, comes running toward her, "vibrating all over...mewling sounds tearing from a throat that's gone hoarse," screaming that Da Deivel has hurt her Grossmammi. Mary lived with her daughter and son-in-law Miriam and Ivan Helmuth, and the missing child is one of their eight. A massive search is instituted after the traumatized Annie Helmuth describes the killer as a very large Amish man with brown hair. Kate checks out the few obvious suspects in the generally nonviolent community, including several sex offenders, but finds no reason for the crime until one of the Helmuth children mentions that "Mamm says Elsie was a gift," and "Bishop Troyer brought her," helping Kate put together several tellta le facts. Elsie was the only Helmuth child not delivered by midwife Martha Hershberger. She's a brown-haired, brown-eyed child whose siblings are all green-eyed strawberry blonds. And two of the Helmuth girls are 7 years old. After tracking down birth certificates, Kate realizes Elsie isn't the Helmuths' biological child, and a distraught Miriam breaks down and admits the child was indeed brought to them by Bishop Troyer and a midwife and bishop from Scioto County. Kate, who grew up Amish before leaving the community, is aghast that Troyer would have anything to do with an illegal child placement. Following up the lead, Kate learns that the Scioto bishop was killed in a supposed hit-and-run. The midwife is murdered after Kate's first visit. Kate herself is lucky to escape when she's attacked by the killer. Bible verses left at the scenes that suggest someone seeking revenge leave Kate with still more trails to follow. Once again, the queen of Amish mysteries (A Gathering of S ecrets, 2018, etc.) uses past events to drive her story. Block out time to read this page-turner at a single sitting. Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 February #1
In this latest from the
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.New York Times best-selling Amish mystery whiz, a woman is murdered and her seven-year-old granddaughter abducted, leaving Chief of Police Kate Burkholder trying to wrestle answers from their upstanding but secretive family and the residents of a remote Old Order Amish settlement. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 June
In Painters Mill, OH, police chief Kate Burkholder responds to a crime scene at a deserted farm where she finds a five-year-old child covered in blood. The butchered body of the youth's Amish grandmother is inside the house, and another child is missing, a seven-year-old girl with special needs. This kind of case brings law enforcement units from all over, but the family trusts Kate because she was once Amish. Then a child accidentally blurts out something that convinces Kate that the family has secrets. She's shocked to discover that responsible people in the Amish community, two bishops and a midwife, may have set a crime spree in motion by their actions seven years earlier. As shots are fired, and bodies pile up, Kate comes too close to a man who wants revenge, and the tension mounts before a shocking attack and a gripping conclusion.
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.VERDICT Castillo's latest, followingA Gathering of Secrets , is another violent, fascinating story. Readers who are unfamiliar with the gritty series may be surprised that this is not an Amish cozy, but fans of Castillo's "Kate Burkholder" series will be satisfied with this recent installment. [See Prepub Alert, 1/7/19.]âLesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN
