The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

The Dead Will Tell (Kate Burkholder, #6)

by Linda Castillo

Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time-and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave.

On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide-an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and Kate finds herself chasing a singularly difficult and elusive trail of evidence that somehow points back to the tragedy of that long ago incident. Meanwhile, Kate has moved in with state agent John Tomasetti and for the first time in so long, they're both happy; a bliss quickly shattered when one of the men responsible for the murders of Tomasetti's family four years ago is found not guilty, and walks away a free man. Will Tomasetti be pulled back to his own haunted past?

When a second man is found dead-also seemingly by his own hand-Kate discovers a link in the case that sends the investigation in a direction no one could imagine and revealing the horrifying truth of what really happened that terrible night thirty-five years ago, when an Amish father and his four children perished-and his young wife disappeared without a trace.

And, as Kate knows-the past never truly dies . . . in The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo . . .

Reviewed by sleepseeker on

4 of 5 stars

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It was a good book to read. I liked the crime and the story behind it. I guessed quite a few things, with some stuff thrown in that I didn't think of.

As usual, what makes these books good, is the main character Kate. She is unique, interesting and her drive to protect her town and figure out how to stops the killers is the driving force to the success of the books.

The secondary characters and the town the Author created, is also great to read. I enjoy reading about all the characters.

I'm happy that Tomasetti and Kate have become serious and she moved in with him. It's good that Kate didn't fight her doubts to hard, like in the last book.

There was some things taken care of in this book, about Tomasetti's past. I'm hoping that now, he can leave things in the past and look to the future, with Kate.

I'm kind of sad, that there is no other books to read in the series and I'm going to have to wait for the Author to come out with more.

I would recommend these books to anybody. They are light crime mysteries, that don't go to dark. I prefer these kind of novels, to the ones, that can become too real.

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