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Frost Easton

by Brian Freeman

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

Books
3 known books (3 novels)
Published
3
First published
2017
Status
completed
Shelved under
Thriller
Start here: The Night Bird (2017) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of The Night Bird
The Night Bird (2017)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. The Night Bird

    Novel
    The Night Bird opens the trilogy in 2017 at 350 pages, pitting San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton against a killer targeting people who all shared the same experimental hypnotherapy treatment.
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  2. The Voice Inside

    Novel
    Published in 2018, The Voice Inside is the middle installment of this complete, self-contained trilogy, continuing Frost Easton's forensic-psychology-driven casework in the fog-and-hills San Francisco backdrop Brian Freeman built as a counterpoint to his Duluth-set Jonathan Stride novels.
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  3. The Crooked Street

    Novel
    The Crooked Street closes out the trilogy in 2019 at 360 pages. With no further installments announced, it completes Frost Easton's arc as a shorter, self-contained counterpart to Freeman's ongoing Jonathan Stride series, written in the same period but designed to stand as a finished unit.
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Key facts about the Frost Easton series

The Frost Easton series has 3 books on our list. Since all 3 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with The Night Bird, since it opens the publication order in 2017. The Voice Inside is book 2, from 2018. The Crooked Street is book 3, from 2019.

Each title links to its own page, while the list keeps them in date order. Each book page shows its dates and editions. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.

The books came out between 2017 and 2019, while their length runs from 350 to 360 pages. That is a run of 2 years.

Brian Freeman has 33 books on our list. Additionally, they write Jonathan Stride, Cab Bolton and Shelby Lake. We shelve the books under psychological thriller.

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.

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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