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The Zero Night

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"Freeman's Bourne novels might get more publicity, but his Stride novels are where his skills as a storyteller are really showcased. First-rate." — Booklist

A woman has been kidnapped.Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back ... dead or alive.

After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it's time for him to come back.

Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash, and she's still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate to find her—but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime.

Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage.

His wife, Serena, is struggling after the death of her mother, the abusive woman she hadn't seen in twenty-five years. When she loses control at a crime scene and draws her gun on a fellow cop, Serena finds herself kicked off the Webster case. Alone at her desk, she begins hunting through old police files and starts to ask questions about a mother's death that was written off as suicide. That death haunts Serena like an echo of her own childhood—but her obsession with it takes a terrible toll.

As Serena shuts him out of her despair, and his own investigation grows increasingly tangled, Stride wonders whether going back to his detective work was the right decision. But all he can do is keep moving forward. Because Stride fears the Webster kidnapping may be only one part of a horrific murder conspiracy.

And it's not over yet.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 26, 2022
      Thriller Award winner Freeman’s strong 11th Jonathan Stride novel (after 2020’s Funeral for a Friend) finds the Duluth, Minn., cop, who once headed major crimes before he almost died from a gunshot wound, returning to work after more than a year of medical leave to help his old partner, Lt. Maggie Bei, with a kidnapping case. Attorney Gavin Webster contacted Maggie to report that his wife, Chelsey, had been abducted several days earlier; he complied with the kidnapper’s demands to pay a $100,000 ransom and to not involve the police, but, despite that, he’s heard nothing further, and Chelsey remains missing. Maggie suspects Gavin may not be telling her the whole story, indeed may have faked the abduction as a way of ending his marriage. Meanwhile, Stride must contend with the struggles of his wife, Serena, also a cop, after she learns that her abusive mother has died, reviving fraught emotions and threatening her hard-won sobriety. Freeman makes the inner lives of the Strides accessible even for newcomers, and perfectly balances plot twists and character development. Those who like their crime thrillers infused with humanity will be rewarded. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider ICM Partners.

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