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Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie An Amish Murder

Sworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series.

Some secrets are too terrible to reveal. Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve. . . .

In Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. A young Amish girl named Kate Burkholder survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer . . . but ultimately decided to leave her community.

A wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as chief of police. Her Amish roots and big-city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She's certain she's come to terms with her past—until the first body is discovered in a snowy field.

Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past—and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.

Libro 1 de 16

Kate Burkholder
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366
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2011
marzo 15
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14.1 x 2.6 x 20.9
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0312597169
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978-0312597160
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Linda Castillo is the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Burkholder novels, including Pray for Silence and Breaking Silence, crime thrillers set in Amish country. She is the recipient of awards including the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence, the Holt Medallion and a nomination for the RITA. Besides writing, Castillo's other passion is horses, particularly her Appaloosa, George. She lives in Texas with her husband.

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Sworn to Silence

A NovelBy Linda Castillo

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Copyright © 2011 Linda Castillo
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ISBN: 9780312597160
Chapter One

The cruiser’s strobes cast red and blue light onto winter dead trees. Officer T.J. Banks pulled the car onto the shoulder and flipped on the spotlight, running the beam along the edge of the field where corn stalks shivered in the cold. Twenty yards away, six Jersey cows stood in the bar ditch, chewing their cud.

"Stupid fuckin’ cows," he muttered. Besides chickens, they had to be the dumbest animals on earth.

He hit the radio. "Dispatch, this is forty- seven."

"What’s up, T.J.?" asked Mona, the night dispatcher.

"I got a 10- 54. Stutz’s damn cows are out again."

"That’s the second time in a week."

"Always on my shift, too."

"So what are you going to do? He ain’t got no phone out there."

A glance at the clock on the dash told him it was nearly two a.m."Well, I’m not going to stand out here in the frickin’ cold and round up these stupid shits."

"Maybe you ought to just shoot ’em."

"Don’t tempt me." Looking around, he sighed. Livestock on the road at this hour was an accident waiting to happen. If someone came around the curve too fast it could be bad. He thought of all the paperwork an accident would entail and shook his head. "I’ll set up some flares then go drag his Amish ass out of bed."

"Let me know if you need backup." She snickered.

Yanking the zipper of his coat up to his chin, he slid his flashlight from its nest beside the seat and got out of the cruiser. It was so cold he could feel his nose hairs freezing. His boots crunched through snow as he made his way to the bar ditch, his breaths puffing out in front of him. He hated the graveyard shift almost as much as he hated winter.

He ran the flashlight beam along the fence line. Sure enough, twenty feet away two strands of barbed wire had come loose from a gnarled locust- wood post. Hoofprints told him several head had discovered the opening and ventured onto the shoulder for some illicit grazing.

"Stupid fuckin’ cows."

T.J. went back to the cruiser and popped the trunk. Removing two flares, he set them up on the centerline to warn traffic. He was on his way back to the cruiser when he spotted something in the snow on the opposite side of the road. Curious, he crossed to it. A solitary woman’s shoe lay on the shoulder. Judging from its condition and lack of snow cover, it hadn’t been there long. Teenagers, probably. This deserted stretch of road was a favorite place to smoke dope and have sex. They were almost as stupid as cows.

Frowning, T.J. nudged the shoe with his foot. That was when he noticed the drag marks, as if something heavy had been hauled through the snow. He traced the path with the flashlight beam, tracking it to the fence and into the field beyond. The hairs at the back of his neck prickled when he spotted blood. A lot of it.

"What the hell?"

He followed the trail into the ditch where yellow grass poked up through the snow. He climbed the fence and found more blood on the other side, stark and black against pristine white. It was enough to give a guy the willies.

The path took him to a stand of bare- branched hedge apple trees at the edge of a cornfield. He could hear himself breathing hard, the dead corn stalks whispering all around. T.J. set his hand on his revolver and swept the beam in a 360- degree circle. That was when he noticed the object in the snow.

At first he thought an animal had been hit and dragged itself there to die. But as he neared, the beam revealed something else. Pale flesh. A shock of darkish hair. A bare foot sticking out of the snow. Adrenaline kicked hard in his gut. "Holy shit."

For an instant he couldn’t move. He couldn’t stop looking at the dark circle of blood and colorless flesh. Giving himself a hard mental shake, T.J. dropped to his knees beside the body. His first thought was that she might still be alive. Brushing at the snow, he set his hand against a bare shoulder. Her skin was ice cold, but he rolled her over anyway. He saw more blood and pasty flesh and glazed eyes that seemed to stare right at him.

Shaken, he scrambled back. His hand trembled as he grappled for his lapel mike. "Dispatch! This is forty- seven!"

"What now, T.J? One of them cows chase you up a tree?"

"I got a fuckin’ body here at Stutz’s place."

"What?"

They used the ten- code system in Painters Mill, but for the life of him he couldn’t remember the number for a dead body. He’d never had to use it. "I said I got a dead body."

"I heard you the first time." But the words were followed by a stunned pause as realization hit her. "What’s your twenty?"

"Dog Leg Road, just south of the covered bridge."

A beat of silence. "Who is it?"

Everyone knew everyone in Paint ers Mill, but he’d never seen this woman before. "I don’t know. A woman. Naked as the day she came into this world and deader than Elvis."

"A wreck or what?"

"This was no accident." Setting his hand on the butt of his .38, T.J. scanned the shadows within the trees. He could feel his heart beating fast in his chest. "You’d better call the chief, Mona. I think we got us a murder."

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Published by St. Martin’s Press.

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Editorial ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books; Reprint edición (15 marzo 2011)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 366 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312597169
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312597160
Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 318 g
Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 14.07 x 2.6 x 20.9 cm

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I rarely regret reading a story. But this one I do.
I'll get to the point. The story's plot is unpleasant, hard to read, bloody, horrifying, worthy of the worst of my nightmares. I have read here forms of torture and abuse against women that I have never read before. They are depraved. Detailed. "Gorely" realistic. And they are offered to us from all the points of view: the victim, the murderer and even the medical examiner.

I am more or less accustomed to this type of suspense, and although lately it is increasingly difficult for me to read them, they usually work because the author writes an even better and more detailed plot than the crimes themselves. But not here. Here the plot is unrealistic, hard to believe and full of holes and unanswered questions.

The MC's also leave much to be desired, but above all, like the plot, they are impossible to believe or take seriously. And repetitive. Both MC's have a past so similar that it is weird. Or unimaginative.

I wish the author had put the same effort developing the plot as she did describing the crimes. I can go with shocking crimes if the plot is shockingly good too. Here, the crimes stole the show.

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Pocas veces me arrepiento de haber leído una historia. Esta es una de ellas.

Iré al grano. La trama es desagradable, difícil de leer, sangrienta, horripilante, digna de la peor de tus pesadillas. Las formas de tortura y abuso contra las mujeres que he leído aquí no las he leído jamás, son depravadas. Detalladas. "Góricamente" realistas. Y nos las ofrecen desde todos los puntos de vista: la víctima, el asesino e incluso el médico forense.

Estoy más o menos acostumbrada a este tipo de suspenses, y aunque cada vez me cuesta más leerlos, normalmente funcionan porque la autora escribe una trama aún mejor y más detallada que los crímenes en si. Pero no aquí. Aquí la trama es irreal, difícil de creer y llena de agujeros y preguntas sin respuesta. Los protagonistas también dejan mucho que desear, pero, sobre todo, al igual que la trama, son imposibles de creer o tomar en serio. Y repetitivo. El pasado de los protagonistas es tan parecido que es chocante. O poco imaginativo.

Ojalá la autora hubiese puesto el mismo esfuerzo desarrollando y trabajando la trama que puso en la descripción de los crímenes. Puedo leer acerca de crímenes brutales si la trama también es brutal. Pero aquí, los crímenes se han convertido en la estrella absoluta de la historia, y eso para mí, nunca funciona.

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"I dream of death."

FINAL DECISION: A good mystery mixed with a troubled and competent chief of police, secrets that threaten her career and perhaps her life and scary drama. Clear, well written and complex, this story kicks of the series and made me immediately want to read the next book.

THE STORY: Kate Burkholder grew up Amish in simple innocence until she was brutally attacked at the age of 14. The aftermath of her attack led her to rebellion and a crisis of faith and had her leave the Amish. She has now returned to her hometown -- no longer Amish but now the Chief of Police. When a serial killer murders a woman in a way that is reminiscent of the Slaughterhouse Killer from sixteen years ago, the town panics that the killer has returned. Kate, however, knows that the Slaugherhouse Killer is dead, but can't tell anyone else. What she doesn't know is who is killing women now and why are the killings so similar to those of the Slaughterhouse Killer?

OPINION: I ended up buying this book on a lark because Amazon had it as a Daily Deal at a reduced price. I like tough women who solve mysteries so I decided to try this book out. I am incredibly glad I did because this book was fantastic. I immediately bought the rest of the series and plan on reading them soon.

Having grown up Amish and then rejecting that life, Kate lives with a foot in each of the worlds that collide in the town of Painters Mill, Ohio. A small town with a significant Amish population, she has to navigate the tricky politics and cultures that intersect in the town.

Kate also has dark secrets that have haunted her and her family for years and which have caused a divide that along with her rejection of the Amish life, have left her alone even with her family living in the same town.

For a mystery novel, I ask that the solution not be obvious but also that once the reveal happens that the solution makes sense. This book meets that standard. Readers should also be aware that there are some graphic depictions of the crimes and some graphic violence during the novel. I didn't think it was overly graphic and it was appropriate for the subject matter and not gratuitous.

There are some quirky secondary characters that bring necessary humor to the story without taking over. Also, readers are introduced to John Tomasetti, who works with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. John is addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol after the murders of his wife and children and is sent to help with the murder investigation under the assumption that he will fail. His own dark past is also an issue here and readers are left to wonder if John will help solve the crime or destroy Kate's career.

All the questions and problems with Kate and John's pasts are not resolved in this book -- neither is their relationship, but this is the first book in the series and it appears that more will be explored in future novels.

WORTH MENTIONING: After reading this book, I recommended it to my mother. I told her it reminds me of J.D. Robb's In Death series (without the futuristic elements) and Kay Hooper's SCU series (without the paranormal elements). So if you like either of those, try this.

CONNECTED BOOKS: SWORN TO SILENCE is the first book in the Kate Burkholder series.

STAR RATING: I give this book 5 stars.

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I really liked the sound of this book, the other reviews of this book, the synopsis of this book, the supposed story line. So I was really looking forward to getting it. I even bought one other book from her (that is still in its plastic wrap) to follow up with after reading this one. But after trying hard to get into this story, both my husband and I gave up. I tried three times to follow it, but jumping from first person of the deputies, then third person, then first person of the sheriff, then first person of other characters - often more than once in a single chapter - made it seem disjointed and hard to understand. Also, there were many inaccuracies and impossibilities with the story line.

First, the victim is killed by hanging her upside down and slitting her throat and letting her blood gush out. Yet the killer later transports this victim's body to the middle of the woods and them dumps her (without any blood in the snow leading up to the dump site), only to have copious amounts of her blood then leak out into the snow surrounding her corpse. If she has been bled out completely or even mostly by being hung from her heels and slaughtered, how would there be enough blood in her body to saturate snow so heavily that it is visible all around her body? Especially when no drippings or trails of blood lead up to the body. Secondly, you have this deputy who presumably knows at least a tiny amount about checking for signs of life - who has a flashlight available and who could see with a minimal amount of effort that her throat was slit ear to ear - who can tell that her body is ice cold - who then rolls her over to check and make sure she's dead??? I quote, "I thought maybe she was...alive, so I rolled her over, checked." If you see a person's throat slit ear to ear, or at the very least can feel for a pulse in what is left of their neck and both of their wrists, and can tell that her body is the same temp as the outside, and can see that she has no breaths/zero respirations - what exactly would you be rolling her over to check? Her butt pulse? Again - totally unrealistic and not even comprehensible why a law enforcement officer, or anyone for that matter, would behave that way. Thirdly - the Sheriff is also blessed with a flashlight. She checks the body and the surrounding area herself, even squatting down and observing the details enough to note that, "Looks like she's been here a few hours." Yet she somehow misses the gaping throat wound? The inept deputy immediately assessed, "She's cold. No pulse. There's blood all over the f-in' place" - by the way this is the same deputy that although noting these three attributes, still checked her rear end for signs of life - yet no one can see that the blood is coming from the huge hole in her neck? When the ME gets there, the Sheriff actually asks, "What about cause of death?" as the guy is checking over the body. WTF? Instead of instantly saying, "Well gee, Sheriff, I would say all this blood coming from the area of her neck is probably a good clue," he instead clicks on his penlight (where is his flashlight? he has been looking over the body for a while up to this point, has he been doing it in the dark? suddenly now, when the sheriff asks about cause of death he realizes he needs light?) and looks INTO HER EYES and says, "No petechial hemorrhages." Really? That's because all of her blood has drained into the floor of the room she was murdered in. No wait a minute, that's wrong. Somehow she managed to hold several liters of blood inside until she got to that one place in the snow, and dumped it there. And the astute Sheriff replies, "So she wasn't strangled." By this time, I could barely keep going. This is where my husband threw the book down in disgust and said he didn't want to read it, period. But I still gave it the old college try. So, the doctor keeps assessing the corpse but it is not until he lifts her head up (and they first see a couple of broken teeth) that the two bumbling investigators finally discover her neck was cut. Still wondering how that wasn't visible sooner - even in the dark - when by this point we have three flashlights on scene. Also not sure how the deputy could roll her over to check for signs of life (again, what was he checking back there?) without first checking her neck for a pulse or her chest for respirations, either of which would have instantly shown him the slit throat - or, without him noticing her head flopping around more than it should. Again I thought about stopping, but I kept reading for another fifty pages or so. Unfortunately, it didn't get much better.

This woman can obviously write, and from what I see on here, many people loved this book. I guess I am just a little more skeptical about how crime scenes should be processed and about how these crime scenes ought to make sense to the reader. I also know some readers commented that they loved the constant shifting from first person of whatever individual character the chapter or page was then focusing on - to another character in the same chapter - and also how the book shifts from first to third seemingly at random. I guess this could be a unique new way of writing, but I found it to be erratic and it seemed to break up the pace of the story. I think if Ms. Castillo picks one or the other - first or third person - and then sticks to it at least the majority of the time - it would make for a better read. Also thinking through the details of the murder and the crime scene (like how the victim was supposedly bled out and then miraculously ended up with several more liters of blood to dump on the snow - or why a deputy would look at a woman's back for signs of life instead of at her neck or chest), would seriously help. I would not recommend this book to another reader, but if you are still interested in buying it, contact me. I've got two books of hers I can sell you: Real cheap!

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Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 22 de agosto de 2010

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Kate Burtholder was raised Amish and is fluent in Pennsylvania Dutch. When Kate turned eighteen, she chose not to join the church. Consequently, she was put under the ban. Her parents, family and many Amish did not want to associate with her. Kate left the community of Painters Mill, Ohio, to live in Columbus, Ohio. While in Columbus, Kate earned her degree in law enforcement and worked as a detective in the police department.

Kate went back home to Painters Mill when her mother was ill. Shortly after, her mother died. Two town councilmen offered Kate a job as chief of police in Painter Mill. Kate was astonished that they would ask her, being a former Amish and female. Kate found out after she took the job as chief of police that it had more to do with politics. In Painters Mill, there were cultural problems between the Amish and the English. The town council wanted someone who could work with the Amish community. Kate was the right person for the job.

In Painters Mill, there was a serial killer, called "The Slaughterhouse Murderer," who raped and tortured his victims. When Kate was fourteen, she was raped in her parent's kitchen while her father and brother were working in the field. The rapist was an Amish man who was helping out on the farm. He went to the house with a knife and raped Kate. She took her father's rifle and killed him. Her father and brother took the body to an old defunct grain elevator in the next county. Since that time, the killings had stopped. Sixteen years later, Kate is chief of police and the serial killer is back in Painters Mill with the same signature. Kate doesn't know if it's a copycat, or if she didn't kill "The Slaughterhouse Murderer" who raped her. "The Slaughterhouse Murderer" was never solved sixteen years ago. The case is still open. She can't tell anyone what happened to her sixteen years ago. It's a secret she must keep to protect her family. The local police and FBI worked the case for years after the last murder, but the trail got cold.

The mayor and the town councilmen phoned the sheriff's department in the next county and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) behind Kate's back. They considered her incapable of handling the highly publicized case. John Tomasetti, a BCI agent, was dispatched to Painters Mill to assist with the investigation. When John was in the field office, he worked in narcotics. His wife, daughter and his partner were murdered. He spent two weeks in a psychiatric ward. John turned to alcohol and prescription medication for his solace.

Kate and John are mutually attracted to one another, but each realize they have a lot of issues to work out before they can have the relationship they hope for. They agree to a platonic relationship, remaining good friends.

I highly recommend Sworn To Silence. The first book in what is to be a series. The second in the series is "Pray for Silence."

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You do not know Silence, like a cancer, grows

Revisado en Alemania el 24 de octubre de 2019

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Es ist ein Routineeinsatz bei dem der junge Polizist ein paar ausgebrochene Kühe wieder einfangen soll, doch dann stößt er auf die übel zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau. Und schon ist es vorbei mit der ländlichen Ruhe in Painters Mill, Ohio. Der Chief der Wache Kate Burkholder erkennt die Signatur des Mörders sofort, vor sechzehn Jahren gab es bereits eine Mordserie mit dieser Handschrift. Kate hat den Mörder jedoch vor ebenso vielen Jahren in Notwehr persönlich erschossen, jedoch weiß kein anderer davon. Handelt es sich also um einen Nachahmungstäter oder war der Mann den sie tötete vielleicht gar nicht der wahre Schuldige? Als eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, kommt Kate unter Zugzwang und ein hinzugezogener Cop aus einer anderen Behörde ist verdammt nah dran ihr Geheimnis zu lüften.
Wenn die Tage kürzer werden und das Wetter draußen ungemütlicher, dann ist nichts so schön wie ein schauriger Krimi und eine Tasse Tee. „Sworn to Silence“ oder in Deutsch „Die Zahlen der Toten“ hat mich genau da abgeholt. Eigentlich wollte ich nur mal kurz hineinlesen und Schwups hatte mich die Geschichte gefangen genommen und ich konnte nicht mehr aufhören zu lesen. Sympathische Ermittler, die jedoch ihr Päckchen zu tragen haben, schaurige Morde verübt durch einen Serienkiller und eine überraschende Wendung. Hinzukommt das in diesem Landstrich auch die Amish zu Hause sind und Kate früher sogar selbst in einem Amischen Haushalt groß geworden ist. Ich glaube das gerade in Zeiten von Smartphones und Digitalisierung die Amish mit ihrer Verweigerung von Technik noch viel spannender für normale Leute wie mich sind. Ich finde es äußerst faszinierend, dass Leute so leben wie vor 200 Jahren und das mitten in unserer modernen Gesellschaft. Kate ist trotz oder gerade wegen ihres dunklen Geheimnisses ein sympathischer gradliniger Charakter, wohingegen ich bei John Tomazetti zu Beginn so meine Schwierigkeiten hatte. Doch gegen Ende hin, hat auch er mich von seinen Qualitäten überzeugen können. Das Highlight und meine heimliche Favoritin war jedoch die Empfangsdame Mona, mit einer heimlichen Leidenschaft für Kriminalistik und unkonventionellem Verhalten. Das Einzige was ich zu bemängeln habe, sind die vielen Abkürzungen, die nicht erklärt wurden. MO für Modus Operadi konnte ich mir ja noch zusammenreimen, aber das NOK next of kin heißt, musste ich erst googlen. Es stört halt ein wenig im Lesefluss.
Von diesen kleinen Kritikpunkt mal abgesehen, war dieses Buch genau das was ich jetzt im Herbst gebraucht habe und auf meiner Liste gibt es nun eine Ermittlerin mehr, der ich gern durch weitere Fälle folge.

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Sworn to Silence Tapa blanda – 15 marzo 2011

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