A review by klew
The Hidden One by Linda Castillo

4.0

This new Kate Burkholder book is as crisp, suspenseful and intriguing as earlier books on the series. Told in alternating scenes in the present and flashbacks to the summer Kate was 15 and her teenage crush Jonas was 19, the story has Kate leaving her Police Chief job on Ohio to go to an Amish community in Pennsylvania at the request of its elders. Human bones and a musket belonging to Jonas have been found id a scallop grave and he’s been arrested for murder. Seeing Jonas after 20 years brings up old feelings and a determination to help him and get to the truth of the murders and who committed it. The flashbacks are full of teenage angst, the sweetness of first love and thoughts of the path not followed. The present day murder investigation has a surprising twist that the is clever and surprising.
Thanks to #Netgalley for and advanced copy of the audiobook.