Funeral for a Friend: A Jonathan Stride Novel

The Jonathan Stride Series, 10

By: Brian Freeman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

“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

Excellent

A very good story and I love the narrator. I am probably alone in this, but I’m ready for Cat to grow up and move away. Far away.

Excellent!

This story gripped me from the first page and kept me engaged the entire time! Lots of twists and turns and never would have guessed the outcome! Highly recommend!

Great story!

All of his books should be made into movies such great writing!
Read all of his books you won’t be disappointed!

funeral for a friend

The best of the stories yet. I loved it, so much going on, lots of twists and surprises right to the end.

great plot with lots of twists

kept me guessing till the end; lots of "oh my gosh" moments. love all the main characters.

great storyline. Narration too.

Love the whole Jonathan stride series. looking forward to all the rest of the series.

love the stride series

Finished it 3 days. The story was great with some surprising twists but some predictable ones too. Overall, very much enjoyed

Great catalogue plus

I love Joe Barrett as a narrator for the Brian Hage Sean Drummond series do not miss it it is worth the credit and laugh your heart out.
This author is not an automatic download for me so I buy his books by narrator e.g. January Lavoy and Joe Barrett but author has this series set in Minnesota and it’s not my preferred accent to listen. However this was a very very clever story and well worth the listening time. I felt some of it was too wordy and too emotional but that is this author’s style and his fans seem to love him.
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Bravo

Once again Brian Freeman has done a fabulous job! Funeral for a friend was a great listen! With all the sad there was still joy in the story. Cat has a stalker closer to her than anyone knows while Stride Serena and Braden all try to protect her. Doctor Steve’s bedside confession really hit Stride hard in this one. Once again everything going on in the story comes together so neatly at the end!! Joe Barrett once again does a wonderful job narrating

Meaningful Cop Story

Very satisfying story. Many characters, well-developed. It all ties together. Everything makes sense. Great.