Shamed: A Kate Burkholder Novel Audiobook (Free)

With this gripping thriller from NY Occasions bestselling author Linda Castillo, a devastating murder exposes an Amish family’s tortured past.

The peaceful town of Painters Mill is shattered when an Amish grandmother is brutally murdered with an abandoned farm. When Chief of Police Kate Burkholder gets there on the scene, she learns that the woman’s seven-year-old granddaughter is gone, abducted in plain sight. Kate knows time is normally against her-the longer the girl is missing, the less likely her about Shamed: A Kate Burkholder Book safe return turns into. The girl’s family members is a pillar from the Amish community, well-respected by all. But Kate soon realizes they’re keeping secrets-and the sins of their previous may be coming back to haunt them. What exactly are they hiding and why?

Kate’s investigation brings her to an isolated Old Order Amish negotiation along the river, a community where family is everything and custom is upheld with an iron fist. But the killer is certainly close behind, sketching more victims right into a twisted game of revenge. Left out at each brand-new crime scene are cryptic records that business lead Kate to a haunting and tragic key. What she uncovers threatens to improve everything she thought she knew about the family she’s fighting for, the Amish community like a whole-and her own beliefs.

As time to get the lacking girl runs away, Kate faces a harrowing choice that may check her convictions and leave one particular family forever changed.

Praise for Kathleen McInerney seeing that Kate Burkholder:

‘McInerney’s masterly technique makes aural feeling of the simple and kind Amish people bewildered with the assault, thuggery, and corruption that have come included in this. McInerney’s people are alive, all human being and believable.’ – AudioFile Magazine on Among the Wicked

‘Kathleen McInerney does an excellent work of portraying this varied cast, especially the Amish, who she instills using a shy, noiseless dignity, and she deals with the Pa Dutch language with the simple a indigenous.’ – Web publishers Weekly on Pray for Silence