Review: Rage

Rage by Linda Castillo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



17 books -16 years. Wow!

We are back to Painters Mill and one of my very favorite Chiefs of Police, Kate Burkholder. It saddens me to think that our Amish communities suffer from the same things our large cities do, but as we learn from this novel, nobody is safe. No town is small enough, no clannish community is safe enough. Crime is everywhere, and Kate and Tomasetti are going to have their hands full this summer.

I'm not going to recap the whole book for you; others have already done so, and you can get the recap from the description of the book!

The only thing I didn't get from the book's description was the actual meat of the mystery/crime. And that is a very good thing. For a while, Ms. Castillo had me thinking that this was some kind of Mafia hit...then things started to fall into place.

Kate takes chances with her life, as if she had nine lives like a cat! But I have come to expect that in this series. And she almost meets her maker twice in this book!

These are very realistic characters with realistic lives -I can connect with them, and I think you will be able to do so also.

*ARC was supplied by the publisher, Minotaur Books/ St. Martin's Publishing Group/Macmillan Publishers, the author, and NetGalley.



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DESCRIPTION -"In this gripping new 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 Eicher, 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 Eicher’s best friend. What could these two young Amish men have done to deserve 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?"