Amish Thriller

When the mutilated corpse of a young Amish woman is discovered in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams embarks on her most terrifying case yet, facing a killer unlike anything she’s seen before. Law enforcement and the Amish join forces to unravel the truth and find the person terrorizing the community, and just when Serenity thinks she’s solved the case, she finds out that the nightmare is far from over.

Tutti a Painters Mill sanno che sulla fattoria degli Hochstetler aleggia un tragico mistero. Ma solo in pochi ricordano il terribile segreto tramandato dal sospiro del tempo, ora riemerso dalle viscere della terra per perseguitarli. Quando un anziano viene ritrovato impiccato alle travi del suo fienile, il detective Kate Burkholder è chiamata a intervenire sulla scena di quello che sembrerebbe un suicidio. Eppure gli indizi non portano in quella direzione...

Il ritrovamento del corpo senza vita di Rachel Esh, una quindicenne appartenente alla comunità amish di Roaring Springs, sconvolge l'apparente normalità di una contea sperduta tra i boschi dell'Ohio. Kate Burkholder, stimato capo della polizia di Painters Mill e profonda conoscitrice di quella gente, viene contattata dallo sceriffo della contea, incapace di valicare il muro di segreti e menzogne dietro il quale la comunità si è trincerata.

La seconda raccolta degli audiolibri di Linda Castillo con protagonista Kate Burkholder riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Scomparsa", "Persa nel tempo" e "Il suo ultimo respiro".

La prima raccolta degli audiolibri di Linda Castillo con protagonista Kate Burkholder riunisce i seguenti titoli: "Costretta al silenzio", "La lunga notte" e "In un vicolo cieco".

The Amish community in Little Valley is facing big changes and big threats with tourism booming. It becomes clear that some of the new businesses want control of the market, and it looks like they are willing to go to great lengths to get it. With one barn after another set on fire in the middle of the night, it becomes personal, and the community is scared for the well-being of their families and their future in the small town.

Everyone at the Sweet Shop Bakery and the Irish Blessings Cafe is worrying over Bella and her baby and busily trying to convince her to take it easy. Katie is not the only person in town with some big decisions ahead of her. And the busy summer season kicks off with a big surprise for everyone.

When dead mobsters start turning up in Blood Rock, Sheriff Serenity Adams joins forces with a new recruit, a US marshal, and her ex-partner to solve the cases, but can she trust any of them? Her old partner, Ryan Donavan, is not acting like himself, and Serenity fears he's keeping secrets. For all of his politeness, there's something about Officer Jerome Wilson that doesn't ring true, and Marshall Bryant always has his own agenda. Throw in the Moretti mafia family, a Mexican drug cartel, and a hillbilly moonshine making clan, and Serenity has her hands full.

A young boy's freak accident leads Riley Spartz to investigate a homicide in the closed religious society of the Amish. No women near the small Minnesota town have been reported missing and because the victim's face is damaged, she can't be identified without the help of a forensic artist. When she finally is recognized as Sarah Yoder, a young Amish woman, the police have difficulty investigating the case because the Amish believe in forgiveness rather than prosecution, and no one in the community is talking.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Corporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture - the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day. Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men.

SFX: Ker-flush "That's the sound of my career going down the toilet. Three months ago, I was the freelance reporter to call for full-color images of an international crisis. Now? I'm stationed at the far edge of the Chicago flyover as a disappointing mother-sub to my eight-year-old niece and the babysitter for a newsroom College Boy. One photo of the lifeless man was all I needed to see - there's more to this story than anyone wants to admit."

Amelia Simpkins may be a great cook, and have a head for business, but sweet treats are out of her league and the owner of the Irish Blessings Cafe says it's because she adds the tart to the Sweet Shop's new dessert that Katie Chupp insists is only filled with lemony goodness. The two shop owners' constant bickering sends sparks flying through Abbott Creek's usual calm...and this is one mystery Katie wants no part of, but working for Mrs. Simpkins may put her in the middle - whether she intends to take sides...or not.

Jessica McLean opens shop to find a man has been left for dead on the floor of her diner. With very few clues left behind, Jessica becomes the prime suspect. But Amish twin sisters and amateur sleuths, Beth and Anna, wonder if the crime could be related to Jessica’s new relationship with their beloved Matthew Beiler. It soon becomes clear that things aren’t always as they seem. Will the sisters step in and solve the mystery, bringing justice to Little Valley yet again?

Hazel Thompson is found dead in Little Valley’s now-famous Amish Inn, and there’s a long list of suspects with plenty of motive. Much to the dismay of the Amish community, the sheriff’s prime suspect is Eva Zook, the owner of the new Amish bakery. Twin sisters, Anna Miller and Beth Troyer, find themselves once again faced with clearing their family’s name. But things become even more complicated than ever before since the murder weapon has Eva’s prints all over it.

Sheriff Serenity Adams journeys to a northern Indiana Amish settlement to search for a missing girl, and discovers a young outsider has also vanished into thin air. Serenity suspects the cases are connected, and joins forces with an unlikely ally to find answers. When she goes undercover, the sinister truth of the girls' whereabouts begins to unravel, and she finds herself in a race against time to save the girls, and a desperate fight for her own survival.

Quando un tornado si abbatte su Painters Mill dissotterrando dei resti umani, spetta al capo della polizia Kate Burkholder la responsabilità di effettuare i primi rilievi e comunicare il ritrovamento delle ossa alla famiglia. Da subito la vicenda appare più complessa di quanto non sembri: emergono alcuni dettagli inquietanti, indizi che portano a pensare che quella morte non sia stata accidentale. Dietro al macabro rinvenimento si nasconde qualcosa d'indecifrabile, un mistero che risale a molti anni prima e affonda le radici nel cuore della comunità amish cui anche Kate una volta apparteneva.

Die junge Rachel Esh wird tot im Wald gefunden. Sie war fünfzehn und erfror jämmerlich. Offenbar wollte sie weg von zu Hause. Schon längere Zeit machen böse Gerüchte die Runde über diese isolierte Amisch-Gemeinde im Bundesstaat New York. Aber niemand will offen sprechen. Deshalb bittet die örtliche Polizei Kate Burkholder um Hilfe. Allein und auf sich selbst gestellt soll sie herausfinden, was sich dort wirklich abspielt. Kate gibt sich als trauernde Witwe aus und taucht ein in eine Welt, die voller Verbrechen und Grausamkeit ist.

Rumspringa è il periodo in cui gli adolescenti amish sperimentano la vita fuori dalle regole della loro comunità, un momento di scoperte personali e di crescita. Ma un giorno una ragazza scompare senza lasciare traccia, e la paura si diffonde come un contagio. Un figlio scomparso è l'incubo di ogni genitore, tanto più in una società in cui i legami familiari sono così stretti, e quando la ricerca finisce tragicamente col ritrovamento del cadavere, il dipartimento di investigazione criminale è costretto a intervenire.

Britt Wolfe has it all. Fame, fortune, and a fulfilling career as the front man for one of the most popular rock bands in the world. But he also has a vengeful stalker, bent on ruining him in the most painful ways possible. What starts as harmless pranks quickly turns serious as acts of sabotage almost take his life.

A young Amish widow turns up dead in Blood Rock and Sheriff Serenity Adams investigates in this gripping whodunit mystery.