Her Last Breath / Linda Castillo / 308 pages

Linda Castillo continues to create a great series with her excommunicated Amish small town police chief Kate Burkholder.  In Her Last Breath, the reader is focused on Kate, a tragedy from her past that weighs heavily upon her, and her ambivalence about whether to act on her feelings for John Tomasetti.  There are plenty of twists and turns to the plot as Kate investigates the brutal hit and run murder of an Amish father and two of his children.  As usual Castillo notches up the action until the nail-biting conclusion and lets readers in on the emotional baggage of her main characters.