Blog Tour: Lamb to the Slaughter By Karen Hopkins | Review | Giveaway | Interview

Lamb To The Slaughter
Book One of Serenity’s Plain Secrets.
Author: Karen Ann Hopkins
Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Suspense | Mystery | Adult Fiction
Released:  March 18, 2014
Review Source:  Blog Tour
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Some Amish communities aren't so cozy.
Lamb to the Slaughter is a story about the intertwining lives of three unlikely people in an Indiana Amish Community and the devastating results when a rebellious teenage girl is found shot to death in a corn field during the harvest.

Serenity Adams is the newly elected young sheriff in the country town of Blood Rock and besides dealing with the threatening behavior of her predecessor, she now has a dead Amish girl on her plate. At first glance, the case seems obvious. The poor girl was probably accidentally shot during hunting season, but when the elders of the Amish community and even the girl’s parents react with uncaring subdued behavior, Serenity becomes suspicious. As she delves deeper into the secretive community that she grew up beside, she discovers a gruesome crime from the past that may very well be related to the Amish girl’s shooting.

Serenity enlists the help of the handsome bad-boy building contractor, Daniel Bachman, who left the Amish when he was nineteen and has his own dark reasons to help the spunky sheriff solve the crime that the family and friends who shunned him are trying desperately to cover up. Serenity’s persistence leads her to a stunning discovery that not only threatens to destroy her blossoming romance with Daniel, but may even take her life in the end.

Then came Karen Ann Hopkins, with her beautiful and engaging Temptation series, that kept me reading all night.  Her sincere personality and love for her fans and book followers is shown through her Facebook and Twitter posts.  She allows her readers to enter her life; horseback riding, raising animals, and the world of Amish living.   Readers wait patiently for the next book to be published, we are showered with pictures that remind us of why she loves the Amish so much.  It’s the simple life that keeps me fascinated even more in this ever growing genre of Amish fiction.  I think I have made it perfectly clear over the years that mysteries are not my favorite genre to read, however on occasion I will throw one into the TBR pile and see where it takes me.  So when Karen told me that an adult mystery was coming out, I cringed and then thought everything that Karen has written has been amazing this will be no different, and was I right!

Simply put Karen Ann Hopkins, takes her readers to a new level of Amish fiction and suspense.   The main character Serenity is the nucleus of the story.  Through my lens everything is centered around her.  A new sheriff , determined to follow processes and procedures.  However, faced with the death of a young Amish girl, wrapping up a case of accidental death, proves to be not so easy.  Sure there is help along the way.  Even a little bit of romance sprinkled throughout.  But what really makes this mystery stand out, is even when you think you know the answer, Karen has crafted a twist thrown at you that makes that theory disappear and a new one come to light.  Her shift from Young Adult Literature to Adult is amazing.  My 5 tree reviews are never given without a lot of thought.  No questions asked, 5 it is.   The writing style is on point with what the components of a good mystery should be.   Readers are engaged from the very first chapter until the very end.  That by far is an example of awesome writing.  I’ll pick up her next mystery any day!  

   

{PODCAST) EPISODE 02: A CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR KAREN ANN HOPKINS

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A native of New York State, Karen Ann Hopkins now lives with her family on a farm in northern Kentucky, where her neighbors in all directions are members of a strict Amish community. Her unique perspective became the inspiration for the story of star-crossed lovers Rose and Noah. When she’s not homeschooling her kids, giving riding lessons or tending to a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats, she is dreaming up her next romantic novel.

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