Immoral

In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first minute to the last.

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of deja vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota, gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn't be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet 16. And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually charged, a wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions. And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers. Secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies, death, and illicit desire. Secrets that are chillingly immoral.

©2005 Brian Freeman (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks

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"Who is Brian Freeman? This guy can tell a story. Immoral is a page-turner of the highest caliber. It has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end." (Michael Connelly)

Immoral Is An Apt Title

This is an okay book, but it gets lost in the side plots a couple of times and even decides to introduce a new set of characters and locations more than halfway through the book, which I seldom find to be a good sign. You can find prime examples of at least six of the seven deadly sins here, missing only gluttony. We have people committing murder, kidnapping, rape, adultery in several forms including with their "minister", their stepdaughter, and their coworkers. There is a woman that pulls the getting pregnant trick twice to force men to marry and take care of her. Lust, envy, wrath, and pride run rampant. Lots of misdirection and lapses in logic to annoy those that like their books to make some sort of imperical sense mean slight deductions to the overall score.

This is an okay story and the good reader make this worth purchasing. Do NOT listen to it on the car radio with young listeners or unrelated members of the opposite sex in the car. There are some rather graphic scenes of a sexual nature that would embarrass those with a semi developed sense of morality.

It may be immoral, but its also a great read!

Sometimes when I start a book, circumstances cause me to lose track and become disinterested in the book. So I return it, only to forget about it months or years later and repurchase the book. In the case of Freeman's first Jonathan Stride novel, Immoral, I am so thankful I gave it another chance.

There are two wonderful characters that are both vulnerable and driven ace detectives. And they both happen to have two equally charasmatic, sharpwitted, funny and insightful partners to keep them humble. The result is characters you will invest emotionally in.

You should read the synopsis, but let me assure you this is a first rate mystery.

Joe Barrett is the perfect choice to bring out the wit and irony in Freeman's work.

Now that is a well written mistery/thriller!

Loved it! I listen to a lot of books in this genre and "Immoral" was very enjoyable from beginning to end! Characters, story line, locations, all very well developed and described! A believable story that took me through a range of emotions! I hope I can find another book by this author! The narrator is perfect for this author/story! I'll look for other books that he's narrated as well!

Request to Audible, when a large number of listeners loved a book, but hated the narrator (and left a review), I won't buy the book! I wish you'd have the book re-recorded by one of your popular narrators! It's disappointing to listeners when we love an author/series, but can't buy another one of his books because the narrator is not up to par! You also lose quite a bit of sales! Thank you!
....thriller addict

good characters, I didn't guess ending

new author to me, good detective, not too violent. I will listening to many more.

Decent story, weird narration.

The plot is a bit on the convoluted and log winded side, but it’s engaging and pulls you along well enough. My biggest issue was the narrator. He does a decent read, for the most part, but he has a Tom Bodley reading letters to Hustler magazine on the sex scenes. It’s like listening your grandfather give you details about sex with your grandmother. This needs a more dynamic narrator that doesn’t sound like a little House on the Prairie character.