Pray for Silence by Linda CastilloMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Set in the rural Amish farmland of Ohio, this murder mystery is horrendous in its depiction of the slaughter of a family of seven, including five children, one a toddler. For Kate Burkholder, the Chief of Police and excommunicated Amish woman, it is particularly emotionally devastating. Both teen girls have been viciously tortured and disemboweled. One of them has had her uterus removed and is not found. As the story unfolds, the similarities between Kate's life as a young Amish girl and that of this girl, Mary Planck almost destroy Kate. Without any evidence and with no immediate leads, Kate and her team, outsiders to the community, find it very difficult to get any information from the other farm families of the area. Who could want to so savagely destroy a quiet family with no obvious enemies in this small Ohio town? The search for answers is engrossing and the revelations almost worse than the crime scene itself.
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