Cold Heart Creek
In the stark light of dawn, the young couple are laid out on their backs by the dying campfire, their hands clasped between them. Their eyes are open, but their hearts are cold…
When a park ranger stumbles across the bodies of Valerie and Tyler Yates by a creek in the small town of Denton, Detective Josie Quinn is first on the scene. Still reeling from the news that her abusive mother is dying, Josie suspects this is more than just accidental poisoning, and she’s right: someone jammed a crudely carved pendant necklace down Valerie’s throat before she died.
Combing the area, Josie’s team discover a third sleeping bag indicating there could have been an extra guest around the fire that night. A lucky escape? A missing victim? Or a suspect on the run? Finding this person is the key to the entire investigation…
Trawling the couple’s photo albums for clues, Josie can’t imagine why anyone might want to harm these smiling, carefree young lovers. Until a face in one of the pictures stops her in her tracks and leads her to a farmhouse hidden deep within the forest – a special place where people go to escape, and to hide. There they meet a young girl with frightened eyes and bandaged wrists who knows more than she is saying. But the next day she’s found dead, choked with a matching necklace…
With her mother’s life hanging by a thread, Josie has an impossible decision to make. But first she must find the meaning of the pendant and catch this twisted killer before another innocent life is taken. Is she already too late?
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Lisa Regan
Lisa Regan’s journey as a writer began in the quiet corners of her childhood home, where she developed a fascination for stories that linger long after the last page is turned. Born and raised in the United States, Regan’s love for crime fiction and psychological suspense runs deep. Over the years, she honed her craft with an unwavering commitment to creating characters who aren’t just caught in dark situations—but who thrive within them, testing their resilience in the most gut-wrenching ways.
Detective Josie Quinn
In the heart of Lisa Regan's Detective Josie Quinn series, there lies a woman who’s as relentless as she is empathetic, a detective whose fight for justice is driven not just by duty, but by a personal quest for redemption. Josie Quinn isn’t your typical detective. With a past full of secrets and scars, she’s determined to solve cases that not only test her intellect but challenge her emotional limits. Each case she faces pulls her deeper into a world of danger and deception, but it’s her vulnerability, her humanity, that makes her more than just a crime solver—she’s a beacon of hope for those who’ve been overlooked, discarded, or lost.
Detective Josie Quinn consists of twenty-four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
