Author: Brian Freeman
Published: January 16th 2018 by Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Genre: Suspense
Series: Frost Easton #2
Frost Easton, ex-cabbie and current San Francisco homicide detective, will never come to terms with his sister’s death, but he is determined to move closer to the truth.
Rudy Cutter is serving a life sentence for the murders of several young women, one of which was Katie Easton.
Cutter’s felony conviction is about to be blown wide open when it comes to light that Frost’s boss, and occasional lover, Jess, planted the evidence that convicted Cutter. With his sister’s murderer released and a ticking clock before the next body shows up, Frost is determined to put all of the pieces together to get Rudy Cutter back behind bars where he belongs.
Yet life is not that simple. There are multiple factors distracting him, one of which is his brother’s newest girlfriend, and a second, Eden Shay, a well-known author that is writing a book on the Cutter murders and is doing her best to get closer to Frost. What Frost does not realize is that he is only a player in this game. A player that does not realize that he is being played, within a field of pawns, to be taken down when the time is right solely because he cannot see the rest of the players on the board.
I had always been a fan of Brian Freeman’s Jonathan Stride novels and for some reason I did not want to take a chance on another series by him. Odd, I know, but for me, when I like a series by an author, I have a hard time liking a second. I think that it is a comparison thing. That is why Frost Easton surprised me so much. There is a deeper level to this character, a darker relentless feeling of trying to play catch up and to not lose the last parts of his sole while doing it.
Rudy Cutter is serving a life sentence for the murders of several young women, one of which was Katie Easton.
Cutter’s felony conviction is about to be blown wide open when it comes to light that Frost’s boss, and occasional lover, Jess, planted the evidence that convicted Cutter. With his sister’s murderer released and a ticking clock before the next body shows up, Frost is determined to put all of the pieces together to get Rudy Cutter back behind bars where he belongs.
Yet life is not that simple. There are multiple factors distracting him, one of which is his brother’s newest girlfriend, and a second, Eden Shay, a well-known author that is writing a book on the Cutter murders and is doing her best to get closer to Frost. What Frost does not realize is that he is only a player in this game. A player that does not realize that he is being played, within a field of pawns, to be taken down when the time is right solely because he cannot see the rest of the players on the board.
I had always been a fan of Brian Freeman’s Jonathan Stride novels and for some reason I did not want to take a chance on another series by him. Odd, I know, but for me, when I like a series by an author, I have a hard time liking a second. I think that it is a comparison thing. That is why Frost Easton surprised me so much. There is a deeper level to this character, a darker relentless feeling of trying to play catch up and to not lose the last parts of his sole while doing it.
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