Down a Dark Road: A Kate Burkholder Novel (Kate Burkholder, 9)

**AN INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER (July 2017)** A dark memory from the past has come home to find revengeor redemptionin Down a Dark Road from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo. "Murder in Amish country has a certain added frisson, and Castillos the master of the genre. People magazine Two years ago, fallen Amish man Joseph King was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison. Now King has escaped from prison. . .and is headed for Painters Mill. For Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, this case is personal. As a thirteen-year-old Amish girl, Kate had worshiped the ground King walked on. Still, Kate never could have imagined the nightmare scenario that becomes reality when King shows up to take his five children hostagearmed, desperate, and with nothing left to lose. Fearing for the childrens safety, Kate agrees to meet King face to face. His only request: to help him prove his innocence. Though skeptical, she agreesonly to discover that the facts and the evidence of Kings case dont align, and that someone may have set him up to take the fall for murder. Someone who wants to keep a terrible secret buried foreverand is willing to kill again. Castillo weaves the particularities of the Amish mindset into a complex mystery that will leave you crying with pity or seething with rage. Kirkus Reviews (starred)