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jmj697mn's review against another edition
5.0
Excellent read. Finished it in just a few hours. This series is one of my favorites.
whaney's review against another edition
5.0
Hadn't read one of Freeman's books in a while. Finished the two short stories today (5.5 and 5.6 in series). This book had me wondering for some time. Lots of potential suspects. Couldn't put it down.
skikatt68's review against another edition
5.0
I had cold 'pricklies' during several scenes and was feeling cold when visiting the cemetery with Stride, oh, but I was actually sitting in the very warm sun. That's a good writer, my friend! I felt the cold of Northern Wisconsin, the chill of terror, and all while safely holding the Kindle.
ker95's review against another edition
4.0
Duluth detective Stride stops in the small Wisconsin town to visit his mother's grave.. and witnesses a cop commit suicide.
And murders happen, and intrigue happens, and the novel kept my interest.
Doesn't hurt that I drove Highway 29 between Wausau and Green Bay many times in my past :)
I remember really liking 'Stalked' by the same author, so will add a few more of his to my wish list!
And murders happen, and intrigue happens, and the novel kept my interest.
Doesn't hurt that I drove Highway 29 between Wausau and Green Bay many times in my past :)
I remember really liking 'Stalked' by the same author, so will add a few more of his to my wish list!
ericwelch's review against another edition
4.0
I have enjoyed previous entries in the Jonathan Stride series and it was a pleasure to return to another. Lt. Stride of the Duluth Detective Unit decided to pause on his way back home at the small town where his mother was buried, to briefly visit her gravesite. Just as he finished, a sheriff’s car pulled up to the cemetery. Thinking someone in town had seen his flashlight and called the police, he headed over toward the car only to watch in horror as the deputy stands in front of the car and blows his brains out.
Turns out the dead deputy, Percy Andrews, was a local hero, having rescued a woman he subsequently married from a particularly vicious man after being kidnapped and tortured for a week..
Stride, being Stride, can’t leave well enough alone. Despite the Sheriff’s unequivocal request to leave the investigation alone, Stride is a bit taken by Percy’s widow who is soon charged with the murder of Greg Hamlin. Percy had been investigating Hamlin’s disappearance. His body is soon found in Percy’s RV out in the woods. He, too, had been tortured. Stride is soon unraveling a tangled web of interconnections leading to murder that had their genesis decades earlier. The victims had the word Teufel carved on their chests. Was the Devil involved? Very enjoyable read that lead in an unexpected direction.
One thing. The last paragraph leads directly into the next book, Cold Nowhere. I sometimes find that irritating.
Turns out the dead deputy, Percy Andrews, was a local hero, having rescued a woman he subsequently married from a particularly vicious man after being kidnapped and tortured for a week..
Stride, being Stride, can’t leave well enough alone. Despite the Sheriff’s unequivocal request to leave the investigation alone, Stride is a bit taken by Percy’s widow who is soon charged with the murder of Greg Hamlin. Percy had been investigating Hamlin’s disappearance. His body is soon found in Percy’s RV out in the woods. He, too, had been tortured. Stride is soon unraveling a tangled web of interconnections leading to murder that had their genesis decades earlier. The victims had the word Teufel carved on their chests. Was the Devil involved? Very enjoyable read that lead in an unexpected direction.
One thing. The last paragraph leads directly into the next book, Cold Nowhere. I sometimes find that irritating.
skinnypenguin's review against another edition
4.0
An enjoyable read. It starts with a seemingly spur of the moment decision to go visit a mother's cemetery plot and then becoming a witness to a police officer's suicide. The main character then goes to visit his uncle and becomes involved in finding out why the cop committed suicide, finding a missing person (who ends of dead), what really happened when a woman was kidnapped and tortured many years earlier and a bunch of other stuff. Was surprised by the ending and still some questions weren't really resolved.
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