"Two years ago Joseph King was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison. He was a "fallen" Amish man and, according to local law enforcement, a known drug user with a violent temper. Now King has escaped, and he's headed for Painters Mill. News of a murderer on the loose travels like wildfire and putting Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and her team of officers on edge. A nightmare scenario becomes reality when King shows up with a gun and kidnaps his five children from their Amish uncle's house. He's armed and desperate with nothing left to lose. Fearing for the safety of the children, Kate leaps into action, but her frantic search for a killer leads her into an ambush. When King releases her unharmed, asking her to prove his innocence, she begins to wonder whether the police are hiding something, and she embarks on her own investigation to discover the truth"--
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ISBN:1250121299
ISBN:9781250121295 (paperback) :
Physical Description:print viii, 390 pages ; 19 cm.
Publisher:New York, NY :St. Martin's Paperbacks,2018.
Baker & Taylor When an Amish man convicted of murdering his wife eight years earlier escapes from prison and kidnaps his five children, Kate Burkholder rushes to the scene only to be ambushed by the man, who implores her to prove his innocence.
McMillan Palgrave <p><b>**AN INSTANT</b><b> <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>AND <i>USA TODAY </i>BESTSELLER (July 2017)**</b><br><b><br>A dark memory from the past has come home to find revengeâor redemptionâin <i>Down a Dark Road</i> from <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Linda Castillo. <br></b><br><b>"Murder in Amish country has a certain added frisson, and Castilloâs the master of the genre.â â<i>People </i>magazine</b><br><br>Two years ago, âfallenâ 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 hostageâarmed, desperate, and with nothing left to lose. <br>Fearing for the childrenâs safety, Kate agrees to meet King face to face. His only request: to help him prove his innocence. Though skeptical, she agreesâonly to discover that the facts and the evidence of Kingâs case donât align, and that someone may have set him up to take the fall for murder. Someone who wants to keep a terrible secret buried foreverâ¦and is willing to kill again.<br><br><br><b><br>âCastillo weaves the particularities of the Amish mindset into a complex mystery that will leave you crying with pity or seething with rage.â â<i>Kirkus Reviews </i>(starred) </b></p>
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