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  • Funeral for a Friend: A Jonathan Stride Novel

  • The Jonathan Stride Series, 10
  • By: Brian Freeman
  • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (145 ratings)

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Funeral for a Friend: A Jonathan Stride Novel

By: Brian Freeman
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Summary

“You’re safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.”

Jonathan Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: He protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull.

Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Seven years ago, an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Back then, the police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole called the Deeps...but the discovery of the body changes everything. Now Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable question: Did you kill him?

Stride is obviously hiding things. He was the last person to see the reporter alive. And he admits lying to Maggie about that meeting but won’t tell her why. With suspicion in the murder pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the case and on leave from the Duluth Police.

His only ally in clearing his name is his wife, Serena, who retraces the reporter’s investigation into the explosive allegations. The clues all point to a hot Duluth summer years earlier that everyone in town would prefer to forget.

Someone was willing to kill rather than let those long-ago secrets come out, and the suspect with the strongest motive...is Stride.

©2020 Brian Freeman (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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What a great writer

I have been so pleased to have been able to listen to this fantastic writer through all his books leaving me desperate to get to the end to find I was wrong on all my guesses as to what happened. Great

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Enjoyable book

I enjoyed listening to this story and look forward to more Johnathan stride novels. I thought the narrator was very good too

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Complicated

I found this rather complicated meaning concentration had to be high. Since I listen to relax I didn’t get full pleasure but it was a good yarn well read. I would suggest that anyone reading it does not have interruptions in order to sort out the characters and plot.

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Took me a while

Didn’t like narrator at first but he grew on me. Good story and enjoyed this one.

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Love this series

Stride series is fantastic! I love the twists and turns - and well done the Narrator.

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very good

I thought this was a very good stride novel, very enjoyable and the narrator is spot on.

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Rare 5☆ review..

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Another good story

I enjoyed the story. Too many interlinked lives for me to find it believable.

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Great story

Really enjoyed this book. Great story, great characters , good narration, meaningful themes and a good mystery.

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