Catch Up

My first five books -- Immoral, Stripped, Stalked, In The Dark (also known as The Watcher overseas), and The Burying Place -- all featured Duluth police lieutenant Jonathan Stride and the two strong women who make up a triangle in Stride's life: Serena Dial and Maggie Bei. In addition to the twists and turns of each story, the novels took the heroes on an emotional roller-coaster ride.

Stride, Serena, and Maggie have taken a break for the last three years. In the interim, I've written The Bone House and Spilled Blood. The most recent, Spilled Blood, is a pure stand-alone and one of my own favorite books. Although The Bone House began as a stand-alone, the Florida investigator in the novel -- Cab Bolton -- became so popular that readers demanded his return. So I'm in the midst of a new Cab Bolton novel right now, and that book will be out in 2014.

However, I don't want anyone to think that I've forgotten about Stride & Co. The new Stride novel THE COLD NOWHERE will be released in the UK on 9 May and in the US later this year (details to follow soon). For those of you who already know Stride, it's a long-awaited return.

For readers who are new to me in the last two books -- or to your reader friends who haven't discovered me yet -- this is a great time to catch up on Stride. Even though the books are part of a series, I write them carefully so that you can read them in any order. I've had new readers discover me with each of the books (and most people didn't even realize they were in the middle of a series...which is exactly what I want). However, many readers enjoy watching the characters develop throughout the books, so if that's what you like, start at the beginning with Immoral.

So help me get the word out to new readers about Stride...you can tweet (find me on Twitter @bfreemanbooks), use Facebook (like my fan page at www.facebook.com/bfreemanfans), or share my books with your friends on Goodreads (I'm a Goodreads author so link to my page).

Then you'll be ready to enjoy THE COLD NOWHERE!