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Case Closed Podcast Season 3: A Murder in Amish Country—Listen Now!

By Crime HQ

October 20, 2020

Criminal Element is thrilled to share that the Case Closed podcast from Macmillan Podcasts is back with a new season! For the past two seasons, we’ve shared true crime stories that have been solved, so you always walk away feeling satisfied—no frustrating cliffhangers or ambiguous endings. Based off of A Killing in Amish Country by…

Book Review: Outsider by Linda Castillo

By Janet Webb

July 6, 2020

Outsider is the twelfth Kate Burkholder Amish-set mystery. Linda Castillo published Sworn to Silence in 2009: since then the series has gone from strength to strength. Readers who are curious about Kate’s early police career will relish Outsider. A wicked snowstorm in Painters Mill, Ohio doesn’t deter Amish widower Adam Lengacher from taking his rambunctious…

Book Series Binge: Linda Castillo’s Introduction to Sworn to Silence

By Crime HQ

June 16, 2020

Sworn to Silence is set in the fictional town of Painters Mill, which is located in the heart of Ohio’s Amish Country. I grew up in small-town Ohio, but I didn’t know much about the Amish. It wasn’t until I conceived the idea for Sworn to Silence that I became fascinated by this rich and…

Book Review: Shamed by Linda Castillo

By Doreen Sheridan

July 18, 2019

Shamed is the gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo. Kate Burkholder is on the case when a devastating murder exposes an Amish family’s tortured past. The eleventh book in the critically acclaimed Kate Burkholder series finds our formerly Amish chief of police racing against time and operating on a severe lack…

Shamed by Linda Castillo

Shamed: New Excerpt

By Linda Castillo

In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo, a devastating murder exposes an Amish family’s tortured past.

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