What We're Reading: Edward

Burying Place

by Brian Freeman

The weather in Grand Rapids, Minnesota around Halloween portends the coming snows of winter. Detective Jonathan Stride is still off the job on sick leave as the result of his falling off a bridge in the third novel in this series, In the Dark. He is called back early to handle a kidnapping. The daughter of a renowned surgeon is missing from a locked house. The surgeon's wife's sister was a partner of Stride's. Neither of the baby's parents is perfect. They both have had affairs. In fact most of the characters in this novel have their own private demons. Stride has to get people to reveal their secrets to trace the kidnapped baby. A baby is found in a shallow grave, but it is a boy. Will the girl be found alive? Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in the sparsely populated northern lakes area. A rookie policewoman just happens to interrupt the serial killer. He escapes but now they share a dark secret. He begins to stalk the officer. Stride's lover is working the serial killer case. Will they both become victims of the serial killer? Will the two cases be solved before there are more deaths?

The atmosphere of this book will make you shiver even if you are reading it at the beach!