Funeral for a Friend: A Jonathan Stride Novel (Jonathan Stride series, Book 10) (The Jonathan Stride Series, 10)

Product Description

You’re safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.
Jonathan Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull.
Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Seven years ago, an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Back then, the police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole called the Deeps but the discovery of the body changes everything. Now Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable question: Did you kill him?
Stride is obviously hiding things. He was the last person to see the reporter alive. And he admits lying to Maggie about that meeting, but won’t tell her why. With suspicion in the murder pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the case and on leave from the Duluth Police.
His only ally in clearing his name is his wife, Serena, who retraces the reporter’s investigation into the explosive allegations. The clues all point to a hot Duluth summer years earlier that everyone in town would prefer to forget.
Someone was willing to kill rather than let those long-ago secrets come out, and the suspect with the strongest motive is Stride.

Review

”[Stride] is in the company of Bosch, Thorne, Tennison, and Skinner, some of my other favorite detectives time has not mellowed.” —
Minneapolis Star Tribune, praise for the series

”Excellent…A cleverly constructed, page-turning plot and fleshed-out primary and secondary characters make this a winner.” —
Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Alter Ego

”A fast-paced and riveting drama that I could not put down until the last sentence was read…The best book in this grippingly thrilling series.” —
Dru Ann’s Book Musing (Raven Award Winner) on Marathon

”Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling,
Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you’ll find anywhere today.” —
Jeffery Deaver, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Immoral

”Brian Freeman is a first-rate storyteller.
Stalked is scary, fast-paced, and refreshingly well written. The characters are so sharply drawn and interesting, we can’t wait to meet the next one in the story.” —
Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Stalked

”Brian Freeman is masterful in setting up the pace and suspense.” —
Bookreporter

”Brian Freeman proves once again he’s a master of psychological suspense.” —
Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author

”Freeman skillfully weaves together diverse story lines…with twists that build suspense, in this fine, character-driven addition to a strong series.” —
Booklist (starred review) on Goodbye to the Dead

”If there is a way to say ‘higher’ than ‘highly recommended, ‘ I wish I knew it. Because this is one of those thrillers that go above and beyond.” —
Suspense Magazine on Goodbye to the Dead

”My discovery this year has been crime writer Brian Freeman…Fleshed-out characters, high tension, and terrifying twists put him up there with Harlan Coben in the psychological crime stratosphere.” —
Daily Mail (London)

”This guy can tell a story.” —
Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Brian Freeman is an internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense novels, including Immoral, Stripped, Stalked, In the Dark, The Burying Place, The Bone House, and Spilled Blood, which won the 2013 ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel.