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Frost Easton

by Brian Freeman

The Frost Easton series by Brian Freeman has 3 books and is best read in publication order, starting with The Night Bird (2017).

Books
3 books
First published
2017
Status
completed
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Start here: The Night Bird (2017) — then read straight through in publication order.

Cover of The Night Bird, the first book in Frost Easton

Reading order

The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.

  1. The Night Bird

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  2. The Voice Inside

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  3. The Crooked Street

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About the Frost Easton series

Frost Easton is a San Francisco homicide inspector who lives on a houseboat with a three-legged cat and has an almost supernatural gift for pattern recognition — the ability to spot the one detail in a crime scene that unravels everything. Brian Freeman moves his usual Duluth sensibility (guilt-soaked investigators, atmospheric setting, psychologically damaged antagonists) to a very different, fog-and-hills backdrop across this trilogy. The Night Bird (2017) pits Frost against a killer targeting people who all shared the same experimental hypnotherapy treatment for phobias; The Voice Inside (2018) and The Crooked Street (2019) continue the pattern of tightly-plotted, psychologically driven San Francisco mysteries with a strong forensic-psychology bent.

Freeman wrote the trilogy in the same period as his ongoing Jonathan Stride novels, giving Frost Easton fans a shorter, complete arc rather than an open-ended series — three books that stand together as a unit rather than an ongoing commitment.

How to read this series

Read in publication order: The Night Bird (2017), The Voice Inside (2018), The Crooked Street (2019). The trilogy is a complete, self-contained arc with no further installments announced, and each book builds on Frost's personal life and recurring cast from the one before.

Frequently asked questions

How many Frost Easton books are there?

Three: The Night Bird (2017), The Voice Inside (2018) and The Crooked Street (2019), forming a complete trilogy.

What order should I read the Frost Easton books in?

Publication order. The three books were written as a connected arc and reference earlier events.

Is there a fourth Frost Easton book coming?

No further installments have been announced; Brian Freeman has continued instead with the Jonathan Stride series, Shelby Lake, standalones and the Jason Bourne continuation novels.

Is Frost Easton connected to Jonathan Stride?

No, they are separate series with different settings (San Francisco versus Duluth, Minnesota) and no shared characters.

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