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Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adoptive parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life - to find her "other" family. But she's too late. Addison is the sole survivor of her bloodline - a line that a killer is determined to make extinct. World-weary detective Randall Talbot has little regard left for life, but he may be the only man capable of saving hers....

Kish Valley, Pennsylvania. Un piccolo paesino dove la comunità amish è fortissima e dove non succede quasi mai niente. Eppure diciotto anni fa proprio qui il vescovo locale scomparve letteralmente nel nulla. Da allora non si è più saputo niente di lui. Ma quando, per caso, vengono ritrovati alcuni resti, gli anziani del posto non possono che rivolgersi a lei, Kate Burkholder, capo della polizia della vicina Painters Mill. Lei stessa cresciuta tra gli amish, da cui negli anni si è distaccata, Kate ha anche un altro legame con l'accaduto.

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father.

Newlyweds Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and John Tomasetti are happily spending their honeymoon at a beautiful Lake Erie cabin that was once part of an historic Amish settlement. But when a violent storm suddenly erupts, Lovina Nisley, the Amish owner of the cabin, goes missing. Lovina is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, so it initially appears the elderly woman simply took the wrong path, but her disappearance takes an ominous turn when her husband reveals that a developer has been threatening them if they refuse to sell him their home.

A volte, tra la vittima e il carnefice, la linea di confine può essere molto sottile... La pacifica comunità amish di Painters Mill, in Ohio, è scossa da un omicidio: la sessantenne Mary Yoder è stata brutalmente accoltellata nei pressi della sua fattoria, mentre raccoglieva noci con le sue nipoti. Proprio una di loro, Elsie Helmuth, di sette anni, viene rapita dall'assassino. La famiglia della bambina è rispettata da tutta la comunità, eppure, quando il capo della polizia Kate Burkholder incontra i genitori della piccola, capisce che nascondono qualcosa.

When a family dog brings home a human bone, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself on a desperate search for answers. Where did the bone come from? Who does it belong to? And perhaps most importantly, are the bones a result of foul play? With Halloween approaching, the unsettling questions garner uneasiness, rumors, and macabre theories among the residents of Painters Mill.

Un nuovo capitolo dell'appassionante saga gialla di Kate Burkholder, una delle detective più amate dai lettori di tutto il mondo. Painters Mill, Ohio. È in un motel di quella cittadina tranquilla che viene trovato il cadavere di Rachael Schwartz, una ragazza che da tempo non si faceva più vedere nei dintorni. Era una amish, ma si era ribellata alla comunità, ripudiando quella cultura e quei luoghi.

Der Tag des Gerichts ist gekommen - Der vierzehnte Band mit Polizei-Chefin Kate Burkholder von Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Linda Castillo. Auf einem Feld werden die Knochen des vor achtzehn Jahren verschwundenen Amisch-Bischofs Ananias Stoltzfus gefunden. Neben ihm liegt die Waffe von Jonas Bowman, mit der der umstrittene Geistliche gerichtet wurde. Die Polizei in Pennsylvania glaubt, in Bowman den Täter gefunden zu haben, aber die Ältesten der amischen Gemeinde können nicht an Jonas’ Schuld glauben und bitten Polizeichefin Kate Burkholder um Hilfe.

On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people—both English and Amish—who loved him, the more determined she becomes to solve the case.