Pray for Silence

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Call Number: Mystery, Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Castillo, Linda
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Castillo, Linda	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Castillo, Linda	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Very similar to book #1 submitted by willow on August 25, 2016, 11:10am It is always kind of strange to read murder mysteries (or watch mystery tv shows) set in small towns where complex murders, including serial killings, take place, especially when the police or citizens talk about what a nice, safe place the village is. I don't know about you all, but if Ann Arbor were a hotbed of serial killings instead of summer game players, I sure wouldn't describe it as safe or charming. I would just move, and consider the traumatic loss of a good library system the price I would have to pay to keep my internal organs safely within me.

In the first book in this series, Sworn to Silence, young women were tortured and raping before being eviscerated, leaving large amounts of blood and scenes where hardened police officers vomited on arrival at the scene. In this series, set a few months later, two other young women are violently raped, killed, and eviscerated, leaving large amounts of blood, along with the rest of their family. Both books are really quite bloody and contain quite a bit of sexual violence. I don't know if rural = bloodletting, but I think city life is looking good. This book also contains references to snuff films.

Chief of police Kate Burkholder, who was presented in the first book as having had minimal exposure to homicide investigations, has now (a few months later) become experienced with homicide in all its forms, or so she claims. (All its forms?!) She continues to be haunted by her past and tempted by a male officer from out of town.

As in the first book, there is some attempt to infuse the town with diversity, which misfires. There is a boy here who is described as having mental retardation and although I think she was trying to be gentle in her terminology, it isn't. Also, descriptions are amusing: in just one single page (81), one employee at a funeral home is described as an African American young man, and another is referred to as a middle aged woman.

As in the first book, a character from Ann Arbor makes a cameo appearance. In this case, it is an ill-behaved photo-snapping tourist in a U of M sweatshirt. Hooray!