The Zero Night by Brian Freeman
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The Zero Night
- A Jonathan Stride Novel, Book 11
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Series: Jonathan Stride, Book 11
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Publisher's Summary
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 kidnapped his wife. Now they’ve disappeared with the cash, and she’s still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate to find her—but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime.
Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage.
His wife, Serena, is struggling after the death of her mother, the abusive woman she hadn’t seen in 25 years. When she loses control at a crime scene and draws her gun on a fellow cop, Serena finds herself kicked off the Webster case. Alone at her desk, she begins hunting through old police files and starts to ask questions about a mother’s death that was written off as suicide. That death haunts Serena like an echo of her own childhood—but her obsession with it takes a terrible toll.
As Serena shuts him out of her despair and his own investigation grows increasingly tangled, Stride wonders whether going back to his detective work was the right decision. But all he can do is keep moving forward. Because Stride fears the Webster kidnapping may be only one part of a horrific murder conspiracy.
And it’s not over yet.
©2022 Brian Freeman (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
Cindy Wellington
Loved it
This is the best book I’ve read in a long time. I am glad that Serena had a good part and more of her story is being told. I can’t wait for the next book in the Stride collection. Let’s keep it going
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Mike
Interpersonal Drama Won…Crime Solving didn’t bother to show up
actually looked forward to the book, downloaded with anticipation similar to taking a great steak off the grill, but instead of steak I got liver…. I listened to about 3 hours of it before I couldn’t stand it. if the world is depressing enough for you watching the conflict in Serena lead to her drinking at bar put me over the edge. I have known plenty of real life people that struggle with substance abuse and I know their struggle. In one sense Serena’s struggle is melodramatic hooey, in another sense it is real. If you like watching train wrecks, read this. I held on thinking the mystery would return to center stage. The only mystery to me several hours in is why this isn’t Serena Stride #1 but rather Jonathan Stride #11. I get the title now, and hopefully Serena turns it around. but if I want to be in the head of people throwing away 8 yrs of effort – I don’t need fiction. Reading for me is enjoyment, not self flagellation.