Outsider
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4.4 • 48 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Linda Castillo follows her instant New York Times bestseller, Shamed, with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.
While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate Burkholder for help, and she is surprised to recognize the driver: fellow cop and her former friend, Gina Colorosa.
Years before, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy and patrol officers in Columbus, but time and distance have taken them down two very different paths. Now, Gina reveals a shocking story of betrayal and revenge that has forced her to run for her life. She’s desperate for protection, and the only person she can trust is Kate—but can Kate trust her? Or will Gina’s dark past put them all in danger?
As a blizzard bears down on Painters Mill, Kate helps Gina go into hiding on Adam’s farm. While the tough-skinned Gina struggles to adjust to the Amish lifestyle, Kate and state agent John Tomasetti delve into the incident that caused Gina to flee. But as Kate gets closer to the truth, a killer lies in wait. When violence strikes, she must confront a devastating truth that changes everything she thought she knew not only about friendship, but the institution to which she's devoted her life.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
Praise for Kathleen McInerney as Kate Burkholder:
"McInerney's masterly technique makes aural sense of the plain and kind Amish people bewildered by the violence, thuggery, and corruption that have come among them. McInerney's characters are alive, all human and believable." — AudioFile Magazine on Among the Wicked
"Kathleen McInerney does an excellent job of portraying this diverse cast, especially the Amish, who she instills with a shy, quiet dignity, and she handles the Pennsylvania Dutch language with the ease of a native." — Publishers Weekly on Pray for Silence
Customer Reviews
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
I’ve read a ton of Amish books and this was horrible. I listened to this one on audio and the narrator was atrocious! She read the parts of the Amish with too much slow deliberateness, as if they were uneducated (which they aren’t!) it made it hard to listen to. There was far too much unnecessary cursing, which ruined the story and sounded fake. It wouldn’t have made it any better to read the book on my own, as I typically do, because she repeated thoughts WAY too many times! We got it. It was like she couldn’t find anything else to say. This story could have been far better, but it seemed rushed and thrown together. Do yourself a favor and skip this one. I probably won’t read another book by this author.