The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Story by Linda Castillo opens with boys being boys. In this case 12-year-old
Aaron Kuhns and 11-year-old Kevin Dennison. Aaron is Amish, Kevin is not, and
the respective families have had enough of their friendship and hanging out together.
Each family has told their son to stop and keep away from the other kid. The
boys, on the other hand, have a plan to address that problem and a couple of
other things.
As will happen, things go wrong, and soon the boys are
lost in the Ohio wilderness somewhere outside of Painters Mill. For Chief of
Police Kate Burkholder and her small police force, the hunt is on to find the
missing boys before the worsening winter weather turns their mission into one
of recovering bodies.
This recently released short story includes an excerpt
preview of the upcoming novel, Outsider. That preview consists
only of the prologue of the next book and does nothing at all to promote it.
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Story is a solidly good short story that uses a frequent theme of this
series—kids in danger. It ties into another frequent theme of the series regarding
how it is to young and Amish in this day and age. Both are at work in this fast-paced
mystery short story.
Nearly everyone central in this
series makes an appearance as does a potential new character that very well
could have a solid place going forward. An enjoyable and fast read, The
Pact: A Kate Burkholder Story is well worth your attention.
Picked up to read and review using funds in my Amazon Associate account. I am a big fan of this series and do have the new one, Outsider, on my hold list at the local library. However, with the library system remaining shuttered as it has been since the middle of March, I do not have much faith in being able to get the read through them.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2020
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