Gone Missing (Kate Burkholder, #4)

by Linda Castillo

'Becca slogged through a deep drift and stumbled toward the front of the shanty. A padlock hung from the hasp, but it wasn’t engaged. Shaking with cold, she shoved open the door. The interior was dark and hushed. The air smelled of kerosene and fish. Out of the wind, it was so quiet she could hear the ice creaking beneath her feet.

Her breath puffing out in clouds of white vapour, she pulled out the candle and matches she’d brought from home and lit the wick. The light revealed a small interior with plywood walls and a shelf covered with fish blood and a smattering of silver scales. A lantern sat on the shelf. A coil of rope hung on the wall . . .’

Three teenagers have vanished from Ohio’s Amish country. The only thing they have in common, other than their religion, is they are keen to leave the Plain Life. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to consult by Agent John Tomasetti as her Amish roots will be invaluable in an investigation involving this sectarian society.

They travel to the small town of Monongahela Falls to investigate the latest disappearance – that of seventeen-year-old Annie King. The only evidence left behind is a satchel – and a pool of blood. The case moves closer to home for Kate when a young relative, Sadie Miller, vanishes. With her own past resonating, Kate delves into the lives of the missing teens. Soon, a sinister pattern emerges along with a vital clue that changes everything. While following up on a lead, Kate makes an appalling discovery and unearths a secret no one could have imagined—thrusting her into a fight to the death with a merciless killer.

• ISBN10: 0230760236
• ISBN13: 9780230760233
• Publish Date: 21 June 2012 (first published 19 June 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Macmillan
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

This one kept me up well past my bedtime. Kate consults with Tomasetti on missing amish girls around Ohio, This brings them into a complicated mystery and the end was a shock.

Another good book in the series. This was better than the third book, so the author is still going strong in the series.

I liked this crime and the ending of it. It was finished but with the option to continue on in another book down the road.

What makes these books good is the characters in them. I love the building romance between Kate and Tomasetti. There relationship is getting stronger. I've said it before in another book review, but I love the pace of there building relationship. It wasn't fast with I love you's or let's live together. It feels natural.

We didn't get much of the usual characters or town this book but that didn't take away from the feel of the books.

I'm not on to read the next book in the series.