A woman has been kidnapped. Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back... dead or alive. After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it's time for him to come back. Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who...

In this gripping follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated mystery The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman tells the story of Rebecca Colder, a young sheriff's deputy who faces the most excruciating choice a mother can make.I know you'll never forgive me for what I did. I'm sure you've asked yourself that question many times over the years.Why? Why did I do it?Well, sweetheart, this is the answer.I was only twenty-six years old when the monster came back...

Turn to Stone takes place in the days immediately preceding the events of The Cold Nowhere, the sixth book in Freeman's thrilling Jonathan Stride series. On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.This novella from master of suspense...

When he finds the daughter of a woman he failed to protect from a violent husband years ago hiding out in his lakeside cottage, Duluth PD Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is driven by guilt and duty to help her.

Brian James Freeman's first full-length collection features twenty-nine stories that deal with both real and supernatural terrors. These tales are populated by characters who seek answers to deeply troubling questions. They are haunted by horrors they think are out of their control, but sometimes the source of their greatest fears is closer to home than they ever imagined. As William Peter Blatty notes in his introduction, "Freeman writes like someone...

A lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone, Jason Bourne engages in a cat-and-mouse game across the British countryside with the assassin known only as Lennon--a mission that calls into question everything he thought he knew about the past.