The Cold Nowhere (Jonathan Stride)

By Brian Freeman

Book Overview

Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife butchered her mother and a bullet killed her father. Now, a rough-sleeping orphan, Cat arrives at the house of Detective Jonathan Stride, pleading for protection. Covered in blood and drenched in the icy waters of Lake Superior, she claims to have narrowly escaped a cold-blooded killer. Stride's raw instinct is to protect Cat, whose late parents' case - and his personal guilt associated with it - still sends a shiver down his spine. As a result, he takes the troubled teenager under his wing without as much as a second thought. However, Stride's partner Maggie Bei is not convinced. She doubts the sincerity of this beautiful young streetwalker who has so easily won Stride's trust, and now sleeps in his house with a butcher's knife under her pillow. As Stride continues to care for Cat, Maggie's suspicions solidify, and a single question occupies the void between them: should Stride be afraid for, or of, this terribly damaged girl?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085738323X
• ISBN13: 9780857383235
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Quercus
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.1" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

#6 in series

Stride has a blast from the past when a 16 year old appears at his house needing his help. Cat is he daughter of a friend who was murdered 10 years ago, Cat is traumatized and may or may not have murdered someone and now someone may be after her. As Stride gets involved with the case he starts uncovering a prostitution ring involving some of the cities politicos and not all is what is seems. Meanwhile, Maggie is having a fling with a fellow officer in another town to offset her feelings for the mistakes she & Stride made in their relationship and Serena is still gone from Stride's life. Another seemingly straight forward case from the past rears it's ugly head combining with the current case and it's all hands on deck. Stride has to get to the bottom of Cat's trauma from her parent's suicide/murder to tie in with what is currently happening all while trying to reconcile with Serena. Will Maggie & Serena get over past hurts and will Stride be with his love and solve the cases?