Kevin Tipple read Linda Castillo’s latest Kate Burkholder short story a little sooner than I did, and sent me his review. I’m happy to share it here, since I’m in the middle of a big nonfiction book right now. (I loved “Dark Storm Rising”, though). It was a little more complete than some short stories, and picked up where her last novel, An Evil Heart, left off. The short story is available on Kindle through Amazon.
Thank you, Kevin.
It has been a long time coming, but it finally happened as Dark Storm
Rising: A Kate Burkholder Short Story by Linda Castillo begins. Kate
Burkholder and John Tomasetti are married. The two are on their
honeymoon and are going to spend time at an area on the shores of Lake
Erie. It is a rare stretch of time off from their jobs as Chief of Police
Painter’s Mill, Ohio, and BCI agent respectively.
On the drive in, both note that there are abandoned farms in the area.
When Kate was last here, back when she was twelve, it was a thriving
Amish community. Now twenty years later, not so much. The burnt
remnants of a cabin on the property they will be staying at is also a sign
that something bad recently happened.
Fortunately, their particular cabin at “Sugar Maple Cabins” is fine and
awaiting their arrival. Mrs. Lovina Nisley and her husband, Enos, are
wonderful hosts. Mrs. Nisley remembers Kate, as does Kate remember her,
so soon they are getting all the news about what is going on in the area.
They are also the first people Enos contacts just a few hours later when
Lovina goes missing during a snowstorm.
What follows is a fastmoving short story where Kate Burkholder and John
Tomassetti do more than just help find Lovina. Readers learn a bit more
about Kate and a certain summer when she was twelve. Events of that
summer helped shaper her into the woman she is today. Readers long
familiar with the series are sure to enjoy Dark Storm Rising: A Kate
Burkholder Short Story as it is a good one.
The read closes with excerpt from this summer’s release, The Burning: A
Novel.
My reading copy came by way of a purchase using funds that were recently
donated via the PayPal widget on the left side of my blog.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2024
