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This ambitious follow-up to Brian Freeman's debut novel, Immoral, which Michael Connelly called "a page-turner of the highest caliber," delivers non-stop action and gut-wrenching intrigue on the streets of Sin City—where you can hit the jackpot, or you can get…
STRIPPED
They looked like isolated cases: a hit-and-run and a celebrity murdered during a fling with a prostitute. No one could ever imagine they'd be linked to a brutal crime in the city's steamy past…and that the race to corner a determined serial killer would stir up secrets long thought buried with the dead. When detectives—and lovers—Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are called to investigate, they have no idea that they're stepping into a world of sex and money, glamour and vice—where desperate ambition rules and loyalties know no bounds…
"Freeman fuses character and plot expertly."
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Strong…rife with sex and violence."
—Publishers Weekly
"Riveting."
—Sun-Sentinel
At the start of Freeman's solid second thriller (after 2005's Immoral), detective Jonathan Stride has left his job in Duluth, Minn., for Las Vegas, Nev. The action begins with a flashback to Sin City in the 1950s and the murder of a famous exotic dancer, a case never fully resolved and having a lot to do with the present-day brutal assassination of a rich young "trust fund baby," MJ Lane, whose dad may have been involved in the earlier murder. As Stride and his new police partner, Amanda Gillen, investigate, they plunge deep into the roots of the city. Freeman depicts his characters well, especially the good-natured Stride; his cop girlfriend, Serena Dial; and his partner, Amanda. Freeman has crafted a strong narrative, rife with sex and violence, though the complex plot at times gets bogged down by overly extensive backstories and a prose style that shades toward the purple. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Morlene Cohn
reviewed Stripped on November 19, 2012 Stripped
I devoured Freeman's first book Immoral in short order. From beginning to end I was completely absorbed by it. Stripped is just as addicting and fantastic as the first novel.
The second novel places Stride in Vegas. He's now a police officer in the LVPD and is still in his relationship with Selena Dial whom he fell head over heels in love with during the course of Immoral
As the book opens, Freeman makes the reader witness to a 40 year old murder of a popular Las Vegas show girl. Flashing to the present we have two totally unrelated crimes. Or so it seems. A hit and run on a young boy and the murder of a trust fund playboy during a dalliance with a hooker. Serena draws the hit and run case and soon finds that there's more to it than just a cowardly driver. Stride draws the trust fund baby murder and to his trained eye he knows it's much more than a random act of violence in a city that has no shortage of violence.
Is everything related? How could these two seemingly unrelated crimes be tied to a 40 year old murder? Leave it to Brian Freeman to make something that seems a stretch of the imagination at first glass something totally plausible.
Brian Freeman is a master of writing deep, rich characters. The relationship between Stride and Dial is a story unto itself and is as compelling as the plot of the book. Their relationship, along with the clues they uncover in their own separate cases are equally addictive. What's more, Freeman delves deeper into each of them. We learn more about what makes Stride tick and we learn a great deal more about Serena and her past. She's not just a supporting character or love interest to spice things up. She's a main character unto herself. Even the minor players, pop off the page and are a joy to read.
I can't praise this book or Freeman enough. His stories are compelling with twists and turns that will have you biting your nails until you hit the last page. The characters are as real as can be and the subject matter is always compelling and handled well. Nothing for pure shock, nothing just as filler. Everything has its purpose and its done well.
You'll be thinking about this book long after you've turned the last page.
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