The Bone House

Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now a teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach, and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.
Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but she's on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain she's throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilary's story.
Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden-and to make sure Mark doesn't get away with murder. With each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freeman's first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout. Title Info. Dedication. Verse (Lewis Carroll) Prologue: Six Years Ago
Pt I. Death's Door. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
"Freeman is an excellent purveyor of psychological suspense…Freeman expertly links the back stories of the Bones and the Bradleys and keeps the suspense at fever pitch."
"Scorching suspense…In this book, [Freeman] has
surpassed himself."
"The Bone
House more than lives up to its evocative title."
"It's one of those books, one that is so good you
hate to see it end. The Bone House is
being marketed as Freeman's first stand-alone work, but I would be the first to
lobby for more Cab Bolton."
"Solid…Well-developed characters and a thrilling climax."
"Freeman does a nice cat-and-mouse routine concerning Mark's guilt or innocence, which keeps the suspense high."
"Captivating…A book that presents sufficient twists, turns, and traps to intrigue any devotee of the thriller genre."
"As tension mounts, Barrett quickens the pace,
unfolding a riveting whodunit with a suspenseful narration. A 2012 Audies finalist."