The Voice Inside

This reads a bit like a high action movie. Frost is the ultimate boy-scout police officer. After getting a serial killer released and hanging a fellow officer out as being dirty, Frost inserts himself into trying to get the serial killer back behind bars. Except he shouldn't be within a mile of the case - because the serial killer is blamed for killing his own sister.

There are 2 POV - the serial killer recently released and Frost, the detective that got him out. It was good to have them both, to help push the drama and the storyline. The ending was pretty shocking, not one I anticipated. I liked the twists and look forward to the next one.

This starts off as a classic detective story but then viers into a whole new genre, psychological thriller. Really enjoyed the descriptions of San Francisco as I grew up in the Bay Area and was familiar with much of what was described. I listened to the audio version and even though the narrators voice was somewhat annoying I still enjoyed it immensely. Highly Recommended.

Frost gets new evidence in the case of the serial killer who killed his sister. This evidence seems to indicate that there's been police corruption in leading to the apprehension of the killer. Now the killer could be released from prison. Frost has to find more (legal) evidence for the case and starts working with a true-crime author who invested years in research.

I like Frost's character. He's a good thinker. We get more of his family dynamic in this book and that's interesting. He seems real compared with other characters in mystery books. There're some relationship issues that I'm curious to read about in the next book.

Received from NetGalley.com for review.

I like Brian Freeman and this audiobook was read by one of my favorite readers. Generally, I am not a fan of police-procedural-type novels where the events become personal; and even though I found the motivating events for the killer to be tenuous, it's still a very good listen.

Frost is faced with damaging new evidence that will set Cutter, a serial killer free (his sister Katie's killer) implicating one of his close friends in the process. Turning in the evidence sets the killer free and Frost has his work cut out for him to get Cutter convicted again. His own family and the victim's families are upset with him creating a rift between Frost & his brother Duane. Duane is seeing Tabby who was best friends with one of the victims and complicates things for Frost with their uneasy attraction. Journalist Eden Shay has studied and followed Cutter from the start and is just coming off of her own published story of her attack that was similar to the serial killers when she offers all of her information to Frost as show more long as she can tag along and embed herself in the investigation. Frost doesn't trust the journalist but there's a pull of attraction that starts to cloud judgements. A shocking murder happens and Frost has to prove Cutter is responsible while also being taunted by him at the same time. Delving deeper into the past, there are some things that still don't make sense of Katie's death and trying to tie all of the victims together at long last brings Frost, Cutter, Eden, and Tabby on a collision course with disaster and death. An explosive outcome with surprises galore. show less

Another winner

I love Brian Freeman’s books. The characters are well developed and I love when the cat plays a major role. My favorite Minnesota author.

That ending!