Rage
A Novel
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4.6 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this gripping installment of the Edgar Award winning series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong.
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Yutzy, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. What twisted individual murdered him in such a sadistic way?
The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found, stuffed into a barrel and dumped in a ravine. The deceased is 21-year-old Aaron Shetler, Samuel Yutzy’s best friend. What could these two young Amish men have been involved in that led to such violent ends?
With a heat wave bearing down, Kate learns quickly that, for reasons she doesn’t understand, no one is willing to talk about what happened to the men. Just as she begins to fear the case may be hopeless, a mystery woman comes forward and reveals that fun-loving Aaron and Samuel had recently befriended some very unsavory characters—individuals who may have ties to a larger, more sinister, black market.
To solve the case, Kate must delve into the most sordid corners of her community, but when she gets too close, the killers target Kate herself. Will the secrets simmering beneath the surface of Painters Mill take another life before she can expose the truth? Or will Kate be the final victim?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Edgar winner Castillo's satisfactory latest adventure for ex-Amish police chief Kate Burkholder (after The Burning) plunges the investigator deep into an Ohio crime ring. At the outset, a 911 call summons Kate and officer Glock Maddox to rural Sweet Potato Ridge Road, where three Amish children have discovered a severed hand while playing in a nearby creek. A search of the area turns up more remains, and the victim is identified as 21-year-old Samuel Eicher, a local Amish man who owned a landscaping business. Despite strong resistance from Samuel's peers, who distrust outside interference in the Amish community, Kate and her husband, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations agent John Tomasetti, manage to gain small footholds of trust. Then the body of Samuel's best friend, Aaron Shetler, is found at the bottom of a ravine, and Kate learns from an anonymous source that both men had been hanging around shifty characters with ties to illicit smuggling. Kate remains a tough, appealing heroine, and Castillo sustains steady momentum over the course of the investigation. This may lack the dramatic highs of the series' best entries, but it gets the job done.
