Immoral: A Novel

Brian Freeman

Apr 2010 · Jonathan Stride Book 1 · Sold by Minotaur Books

About this ebook

In a riveting debut thriller, Brian Freeman's Immoral weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last.

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn't be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen.

And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually charged, a wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions. And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers. Secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies, death, and illicit desire. Secrets that are chillingly...immoral.

Ratings and reviews

The story started out promising, but I soon found myself bored. I had picked out two scenarios for "who dunnit" and turns out I was right within the first few chapters. I found that this writing attempted to put too many twists that ultimately wound up coming off as trying too hard to confuse the plot. The backbone of this is an interesting story line but it failed to deliver on the follow through. Just too much going on and no real direction. The ending was stupid , it was like it was time to end the book so there it was, not to mention the fact it totally abandoned who the main characters were and what they would have done. All in all, just not a great read.

My sister bought a book of this from a book sale, and I thought it deserved more than the price she paid it for. I feel bad for the injustice of Rachel's death tho, despite the fact that she had been a bad girl.

This is the first book I ever read cover to cover and it was worth every penny and page.

About the author

Brian Freeman is the internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense novels featuring detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. His books have been sold in forty-six countries and eighteen languages. Immoral was his debut thriller, and it won the Macavity Award and was a nominee for the Edgar, Dagger, Anthony, and Barry awards for best first novel. His other novels include The Bone House, The Burying Place, In the Dark, and Stalked. Brian is drawn to complex characters, and says, "My stories are about the hidden intimate motives that draw people across some terrible lines." Brian and his wife, Marcia, have lived in Minnesota for more than twenty years.