Stride is Back This Year

My readers all know that my first five books -- Immoral, Stripped, Stalked, In The Dark, and The Burying Place (which was a finalist for Best Novel in the International Thriller Writer Awards) -- feature Duluth police lieutenant Jonathan Stride.

After the hell I put the poor guy through in those books, I thought he deserved a vacation. So my two most recent books, The Bone House and Spilled Blood, introduced readers to new characters.

But the vacation is over. Readers have been clamoring to meet Stride again, and they'll get their wish later this year. My 2013 novel will be THE COLD NOWHERE, and it's another Duluth-based drama featuring Stride and the two women in his life, Maggie Bei and Serena Dial. A lot of readers had questions about the next steps in Stride's life after the end of The Burying Place...and all those questions will be answered! But as is typical of Stride, not without a lot of drama in between.

The UK edition of THE COLD NOWHERE is due out on 9 May. I don't have an exact release date in the US yet, but I will share it when I know it. In the meantime, start re-reading those early books in the series, and get ready for Stride's return!

As for all of you who are Cab Bolton fans (from The Bone House), Cab will be back in a new novel next year.