The Hidden One: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo

Publication:  July 5, 2022

St Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books

NetGalley, arc, fiction, digital, suspense, mystery

Book series, Amish mystery suspense

Kate Burkholder #14

8/14/22-8/14/22

Thank you NetGalley and St Martin's Press/Minotaur Books for providing this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

I had no idea when I chose to read this book that it was knee deep into a series I haven’t read. I guess I will see how well I can follow. If there were less than 13 books before this I would have read them! From other reviews it seems this book can be a standalone novel. 

I did find this novel to present enough information that it can stand alone. It centers on Chief Police Kate Burkholder of Painters Mill, Ohio. She is asked by town elders in Belleville, Pennsylvania's where Kate was raised to look into the case. She lived in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Amish Country until she was 18 years-old. She is asked to help find the killer of Amish bishop, Ananias Stoltzfus, a dark, complex man who was brutally killed. Although this occurred in another state when she is told the main suspect is Kate's first love, Jonas Bowman she knows she needs to be involved even though she hasn't seen him since she left. Due to conflict of interest, Kate is asked to step back but when she is threatened she thinks that she might be closer to this case than she realized. 

It is filled with suspense with reflections to the past and present secrets. I can imagine the previous books must add to the backdrop of the characters development and history.

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Gone Missing, book 4

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After the Storm, book 7

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