Breaking Silence by Linda CastilloMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
One of my favorite series. The silence of the title is not broken until the very end, when the real murderer is revealed. Diabolical but what left me hanging was the why? The author speaks of the killer's determination to kill any and all who stand in the way of reaching the goal, but the goal is never explained.
What appears as a tragic farm accident in which three adults find themselves in a manure pit within a claustrophic barn is revealed to have been murder, at least in the case of one of the victims. Kate Burkholder the young former Amish sheriff of Painter's Mills, Ohio has been investigating what appear to be hate crimes against the Amish of her farming community. The seriousness of this " accident"leads to the deployment of John Tomasetti, a investigator for the State to her town to aid in the investigation. She and John have a personal relationship which they have kept from their co-workers. This leads to a bit of tension with the Sheriff of the County, Kate's immediate supervisor, Rasmussen. At any rate, the question arises --is this suspicious death part of the harassment of the Amish or is it an entirely different case. It takes the following many a lead and at the end the tearful revelation of a terrified little boy to solve the case.
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