Michelle M. (jade19721) reviewed on 8/8/2013 + 115 more book reviews

I think I have learned a few things while reading Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder series. They are as follows:

1. If Painters Mills is a real town, I don't want to go anywhere near it. There is way too much death and deceit going on there and I'm not sure if the police department would be able to keep my ass safe.

2. I think I have established an un-natural fear of the Amish. No seriously...

3. I will never pass by any abandoned farmhouse and not think of someone strung up in a dirty smelly room.

4. I will never look at the Underground Railway and tunnels the same way.

5. Everytime I pass a farm and smell manure I think of manure pits and how easily someone could be pushed into one.

6. Two words...Abandoned Silos

Now about the Book(s) - Kate has more baggage attached to her than a whorehouse full of ex nuns. WTF is wrong with this woman? As the books go on she seems to fall deeper and deeper into despair. She seems to be one of those people who does not learn from her mistakes. She figures out what went wrong at the end, but doesn't figure out how not to eff up the next case. She puts the Amish of Painters Mills on such a high pedestal that she seems to forget that they are people just like the rest of us who make mistakes and are capable of committing all kinds of heinous acts of crime. She may have physically left the faith, but mentally she never left. That is what she seems to struggle with in every book. Don't get me wrong, I love the flawed character. I think that is what makes these book so exciting. However, I'm hoping to see Kate grow a bit if more of these are to be written

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