A Kate Burkholder Novel. The peaceful town of Painters Mill is shattered when an Amish grandmother is brutally murdered on an abandoned farm. When Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on the scene, she learns that the womans seven-year-old granddaughter is gone, abducted in plain sight. The girls family is a pillar of the Amish community, well-respected by all. But Kate soon realizes theyre keeping secrets - and the sins of their past may be coming back to haunt them. Kates investigation brings her to an isolated Old Order Amish settlement along the river, where tradition is upheld with an iron fist. The killer remains close, and one step sakriti opis