The Burying Place, Freeman - B+

                          Stride is still recuperating from his plunge off a bridge into Lake Superior. He broke bones in the fall, but more importantly, he is fearful and suffering from anxiety attacks. Some are so bad that he passes out.  He locks up and keeps Serena at arms length. He is dreading going back to work when he is drafted by a neighboring jurisdiction to help solve the case of a missing 11 month old. Simultaneously, Maggie is trying to do Stride's job as chief in Duluth, where three, now four, woman have disappeared and are presumed dead. Serena is hired to help on the kidnapping case. Slowly, the investigations begin to merge and frighteningly and dramatically come together. As the case is solved, Stride's personal life unravels and Serena walks away. He and Maggie are back running the department and dealing with a new complexity in their decades old, complicated relationship. This series gets better and better.