I loved this book! The Burying Place has everything. A missing baby, a psychotic killer, and several romantic entanglements. The suspenseful, eerie descriptions of the lonely rural countryside, the suffocating fog, and the abandoned school! Oh my God! Brian, were you doing research inside a creepy building, or did you make all that up? The dripping water, broken glass, rotting wood, and the smells. It all gave me the creeps. Besides the tremendous descriptive writing, the plot was a mind-blower. I can usually figure out where the author is going at some point, but this one was very twisty and very surprising. My one complaint was Jonathan Stride's macho attitude. Yes, he was having PTSD panic attacks. I've experienced them myself, so I know how debilitating they are, but when you are going through something like that, you run to someone for help. You can't handle that stuff on your own. With that said, I still love this character and this series. ( )

Jonathan, Maggie, & Serena are working cases that are seemingly unrelated. Stride is still having problems from his accident & isn't dealing with it well while driving a wedge between him & Serena. A kidnapped child, farmland murders, & an emotionless surgeon with a handful of mistresses. Suspects & mystery intertwine while Stride tries to decipher why women are being murdered & their bodies are missing, Serena is trying to get to the bottom of the missing child case, & Maggie is burning both ends. Surprising revelations and twists & turns had me guessing through the entire book ( )

Spannend en onderhoudend. Met een aantal plotwendingen die ik niet zag aankomen. Ik vond het aan het einde een beetje rommelig. maar was een prima verhaal. ( )

To be honest this is the first book I have ever read by Brian Freeman. I happened to pick it up on a whim and am so glad I did. I will not go through the whole synopsis of the book because that can be read in the description.

What I didn't realize until I got home that this was a series, which concerned me at first. Lo and behold this is a fantastic novel as a stand-alone. Granted there is an obvious back story with Stride but enough was mentioned that it didn't interrupt the flow of the read. Once you realize that it is an absolute fantastic fast-paced read.

I loved the fact that it took place in Northern Minnesota- being from Minnesota really added to the way I read the book. I could actually visualize all the settings and was able to put together the destinations (i.e. Highways) easily.

Brain Freeman was able to balance both cases wonderfully, you were never lost as it switched from one case to the next. He also was able to develop a character that I HATED with all the passion in the world- and I HATED this character till the very end, actually I think the husband will NEVER be forgotten by me. Did I mention that the husband was meant to be despicable?

I spent the whole book trying to figure out the "whodunit" in both cases and it wasn't until the last few chapters when all was revealed that I got blindsided. Yes! Blindsided to the point that I thought I missed a bunch of chapters and actually went back a few chapters to reread them just to make sure. I ended the read by closing the back cover and my jaw still on the floor. Blew my mind that I had not figured anything at all out and the ending well just.. an ending that I will never recover from.

I adored this book and the twists that it took. I will surely pick up the rest of the series, along with anything written by Brian Freeman.

*Personal Sidenote* I hated returning it to the library- One because I wanted to keep the book and Two because the frigging copy was also a SIGNED edition! ( )

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