The Cold Nowhere

A CHILLING PAGE-TURNING MYSTERY FROM NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRIAN FREEMAN

An edge-of-the-seat thriller that begs to be read in one sittingBookPage

An outstanding mystery thrillerSan Francisco Book Review

Jonathan Stride is back, and unravelling a decade of secrets will prove to be murder...

Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife butchered her mother and a bullet killed her father.

Now, a rough-sleeping orphan, Cat arrives at the house of Detective Jonathan Stride, pleading for protection. Covered in blood and drenched in the icy waters of Lake Superior, she claims to have narrowly escaped a cold-blooded killer.

Strides raw instinct is to protect Cat, whose late parents case - and his personal guilt associated with it - still sends a shiver down his spine. As a result, he takes the troubled teenager under his wing without as much as a second thought.

However, Strides partner Maggie Bei is not convinced. She doubts the sincerity of this beautiful young streetwalker who has so easily won Strides trust, and now sleeps in his house with a butchers knife under her pillow.

As Stride continues to care for Cat, Maggies suspicions solidify, and a single question occupies the void between them: should Stride be afraid for, or of, this terribly damaged girl?