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A review by paulabrandon
The Burying Place by Brian Freeman
4.0
Jonathan Stride and his partner Serena Dial get involved in the case of baby Cassie Glenn, who has disappeared from her home. The prime suspect seems to be her arrogant surgeon father, Marcus Glenn. On the same night, young cop Kasey Kennedy gets lost in the fog and stumbles across a woman on the run from a serial killer. Despite her attempts to save the woman and catch the killer, the victim winds up dead and the killer still on the run...and now he wants Kasey to be his next victim!
Great thriller maintains its suspense from start to finish! The characters are well-developed and the dialogue is down-to-earth and realistic. These all felt like real people. There are plenty of exciting moments, particularly as the killer stalks Kasey. The plot delivers some good twists, a couple that I didn't spot coming at all! My only real complaint is in regards to Stride's post-traumatic stress relating to events in the previous book. I've read the previous book, but that was close to a decade ago and I can't remember a thing about it. No real details about what happened are given here, so it was hard to get my head around exactly what was so traumatic, and it meant Stride sometimes came across as a bit of an ineffective sadsack.
Otherwise, this is a terrific thriller, perfectly paced, reminiscent of a time before every other book in the genre centered around a silly, paranoid, unreliable female narrator.
Great thriller maintains its suspense from start to finish! The characters are well-developed and the dialogue is down-to-earth and realistic. These all felt like real people. There are plenty of exciting moments, particularly as the killer stalks Kasey. The plot delivers some good twists, a couple that I didn't spot coming at all! My only real complaint is in regards to Stride's post-traumatic stress relating to events in the previous book. I've read the previous book, but that was close to a decade ago and I can't remember a thing about it. No real details about what happened are given here, so it was hard to get my head around exactly what was so traumatic, and it meant Stride sometimes came across as a bit of an ineffective sadsack.
Otherwise, this is a terrific thriller, perfectly paced, reminiscent of a time before every other book in the genre centered around a silly, paranoid, unreliable female narrator.