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Cute cozy mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4.5⭐️

It's hard to believe that Fallen is Linda Castillo's 13th book in the Kate Burkholder Series. Castillo still manages to captivate me. I did figure out the culprit before the end, so I dropped 1/2 star for that.
Kate Burkholder is the Police Chief of Planters Mill, Ohio. She gets called to the scene of a homicide. Burkholder realizes she knows the victim. She babysat Rachel Swartz when Rachel was 6 and Burkholder 14.

4.25

Outsider is the 12th installment in the Kate Burkholder Series by Linda Castillo. Kate's past comes back, and she doesn't know if she's being played or not. Kate's old roommate is running for her life and needs help, who to help her but Kate Burkholder, Police Chief of Planters Mill, Ohio. There's a blizzard coming, and Kate is called to an Amish man's home.
Love this series.

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Introduction
Mystery guest
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
Queen James: A New History About the Life and Loves of Britain‘s First King, James Stuart by Gareth Russell
Shark Girl by Kate Beaton
The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp
O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Emma by Jane Austen

Short Novella in the Kate Burkholder Series by Linda Castillo. Two boys, an Amish and Englisher, go missing during a snow storm. Burkholder, Tomasetti, and her team look for them. Can they find them before the weather gets worse? Quick good read.

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I love this series. This is the 12th installment which follows Chief Kate Burkholder as she inadvertently becomes involved with a case of corruption in a neighboring department. I loved the more procedural-heavy tone of this story and the way Kate‘s beginnings with the police force were told. It gives more insight into why she is the way she is.

I also love the way the cold, snowy weather played into the story, since it‘s so hot where I am.

Kate Burkholder #11.5, less than 2 hours in length.

Two young boys go missing-one Amish and one English-and Chief Kate Burkholder is racing to find them before the bad weather claims their lives. Nothing added to the series at large in terms of plot, but these shorts are always enjoyable reads or listens while I‘m out running errands.

The thing I love about the Kate Burkholder Series is that Catillo always seems to grab me pretty quickly. The way she has developed Kate and John Tomasetti is extraordinarily well. Though she does make me laugh when Kate says how safe her job is. It cracks me up because she's the Police Chief of Planters Mill, Ohio, with a small force. I enjoy that she writes about the Amish, and I get to learn a little something about them. Planters Mill ⬇️

⭐️⭐️⭐️a decent go at looking at small town America during some tough times. I think there is a greatness in there somewhere, but couldn‘t connect to characters and felt it was overwritten in places.

4.5⭐️

I'm listening to Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder Series in order this year because somehow I missed some. I enjoy this series, and even though this is only the 4th book, Kate has grown so much since the first one. She is definitely a bad ass and so much harder on herself than others are. Book 4 looks at missing teenage Amish girls on Rumspringa. Kate is asked to help BCI by Tomasetti. He thinks that with her background, she'll ⬇️