His newest Jonathan Stride novel "Marathon" just hit shelves yesterday and yet best-selling author Brian Freeman still had time to join us on this week's podcast for a candid chat.

Duluth News Tribune reporters Brady Slater, Tom Olsen and editorial editor Chuck Frederick, who has a long history with Freeman and is even mentioned in some of this novels, pick Freeman's brain to find out why he picked Duluth as the focus for his popular mystery-thriller series, where his ideas come from and if he would ever kill off a beloved character.