Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 10/4/2021 + 1182 more book reviews

This is the fourth book in the Jonathan Stride series...I've read the last three in order and I'm liking these a lot! This one deals with Stride's past and what happened to him and his wife, Cindy, and her sister, Laura thirty years before. A woman from the past named Tish comes to Duluth. She is attempting to write a book about what happened to Laura on the 4th of July, 1977. Laura was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat. The crime was never satisfactorily solved but was blamed on a black drifter going by the name Dada. Dada fled when he thought he was going to be charged with the crime and was never prosecuted. But did he kill Laura? And if so, why? Or was he a witness to what really happened? Others in the town could possibly have committed the crime including the owner of the baseball bat, a young rich boy who wanted Laura for himself. Was his involvement covered up by the police? Stride gets immersed in this 30-year-old crime but at the same time a peeper is terrorizing young girls in the community. Could this be related to the death of Laura?

Another thrill ride from Freeman that kept me turning the pages. Excellent character development as usual and some unexpected twists to the story that I didn't expect. I have one more in this series that I will read next, The Burying Place, then I will probably take a break and move on to something else but I'm sure I will be back to the series at some point.

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