Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo

Her Last Breath

A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo

Minotaur · Print & ebook · July 8, 2014

An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in Linda Castillo's Her Last Breath, a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere.

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Who it’s for
A Kate Burkholder novel with a hard-edged, sustained read.
Genres
Police Procedurals, Women Detectives, Suspense
Published
Minotaur, July 8, 2014

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An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in Linda Castillo's Her Last Breath, a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere.

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What at first seems like a tragic, but routine car accident suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental. But who would want to kill an Amish deacon and two of his children? He leaves behind a grieving widow and a young boy who clings to life in the intensive care wing of a hospital, unable to communicate. He may be the only one who knows what happened that night. Desperate to find out who killed her best friend's husband and why, Kate begins to suspect she is not looking for a reckless drunk, but instead is on the trail of a cold blooded killer amid the residents of Painter's Mill. It is a search that takes her on a chilling journey into the darkest reaches of the human heart and makes her question everything she has ever believed about the Amish culture into which she was born.

Hard Case

A Kate Burkholder novel with a hard-edged, sustained read.

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  • A steady procedural pulse
  • Edgy, case-driven immersion

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  • Police-work focus
  • Amateur-sleuth tension

Where it sits

Police Procedurals71%
Suspense30%
Women Detectives28%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Police Procedurals
  • Women Detectives
  • Suspense
Authors
Linda Castillo
Publisher
Minotaur
Published
July 8, 2014
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Police Procedurals