Goodbye to the Dead by Brian Freeman, New in Bookstores during March 2016

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2016 is …

Goodbye to the Dead by Brian Freeman, a Jonathan Stride Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Quercus

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Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride's life.

At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Gorgeous, brilliant Janine Snow — a surgeon transplanted to Duluth from Texas — was the prime suspect in the shooting death of her husband. Cindy believed her friend Janine was innocent, but Stride thought all the evidence pointed to the surgeon — even though the gun was never found. Despite Cindy's attempts to help Janine, the case led to a high-profile murder trial in which Janine was convicted and sent to prison.

During the current investigation, Serena finds a gun used in the murder of a woman connected to an organized crime syndicate — a gun that turns out to be the same weapon used to kill Janine Snow's husband. Two unrelated cases years apart suddenly have a mysterious connection. As Stride investigates the possibility that human traffickers are targeting women in the Duluth port, he begins to question whether he made a terrible mistake eight years ago by putting an innocent woman in prison. And whether he will ever be able to make peace with the memory of his beloved wife and give his heart to Serena.

— Goodbye to the Dead by Brian Freeman

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2016. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.