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| A Hidden Secret |
Like any other novella,
A Hidden Secret (#6.5 in the Kate Burkholder series) is a short and quick read. And very Amish too, as you might have by now come to expect from the authoress. One moment, you are reading what happens to be a case of a barely newborn baby left on the doorsteps of a bishop's home to be taken care of, leading to chief of police Kate Burkholder following a trail of clues to unreel the mystery of who abandoned the baby girl and why. And the next moment, the case is all but solved, albeit too neatly for a mystery, if I may add.
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| After the Storm |
Castillo has better luck with her seventh Burkholder novel
After the Storm, which plays out rather intriguingly in the aftermath of a storm that rips through the Amish rural town of Painters Mill, unearthing human dead remains in an abandoned hog pen, once again leading Kate, amidst all that relief efforts and the roller-coaster of emotions she experiences after she realises she is pregnant with John Tomasetti's child, to painstakingly follow the cold trail of what may be a case of cold-blooded murder. The mystery in itself is quite hard to put down and cleverly revealed, although I felt Kate's personal circumstances to be distracting and frustrating at best.
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