Breathe Your Last: An addictive and nail-biting crime thriller (Detective Josie Quinn Book 10)
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Josie is certain there’s a critical clue in the ivory hair comb delivered to Trinity just days before she went missing. But as more bones surface, each set more likely to be Trinity’s than the last, time is running out to find her alive. Can Josie’s team trust her instincts in a case that is so deeply personal? Can she find her sister without putting other innocent lives in danger?
An unputdownable crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author that will have you sleeping with the light on. This gripping rollercoaster ride is perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine. Prepare to be totally hooked!
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Save Her Soul
Detective Josie Quinn Book 9
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Josie flinches as she takes in the faded blue sports jacket wrapped around the girl they just pulled from the water. Josie knew someone who’d once owned that jacket. He had died in her arms five years ago.
Heavy rain pours on the small town of Denton causing the riverbanks to break and the body of a young girl to float quietly to the surface. With no crime scene to examine, the odds are against Detective Josie Quinn and her team. Mercifully, the victim’s body is perfectly preserved, right down to the baseball patch on the jacket she was wearing. Josie can’t hide her devastation—her dead ex-husband, Ray, owned one just like it.
Following the trail back to her high school, Josie identifies the girl as Beverly Urban, a troubled student rumored to have been dating Ray before she left town for good. It looks like a tragic accident until the autopsy reveals a bullet in her head and the heart-breaking secret she was keeping.
Josie visits the salon where Beverly’s mother used to work, believing she was at the heart of a terrible scandal around the time her daughter’s life was taken. With the Denton wives remaining tight-lipped, Josie’s only hope is a secret meet-up with a terrified woman willing to talk. But she is murdered moments before giving Josie crucial information. It’s clear that someone is prepared to keep on killing to stop the truth from getting out.
Digging deep into memories of her own past with Ray is the only advantage Josie has on this twisted killer… but at what cost?
Another jaw-dropping crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author that will have you absolutely gripped from page one. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine.
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Acknowledgements
Lovely, amazing, devoted readers, you are simply the best! I cannot believe how your passion for this series grows with each and every book. It is truly a privilege to write these stories for you. I am so grateful for your enthusiasm and loyalty that I find it difficult to express it in words. Saying thank you doesn’t seem like enough, but I’ll keep saying it anyway. Thank you!
Thank you, as always, to my husband, Fred, who goes hours and sometimes days without my attention while I’m “in the book” and is somehow still my biggest supporter. I think you are now prepared to write your own book, my love, titled: The Care and Feeding of the Author. Thank you to my daughter, Morgan, for all your patience, good humor, and for giving up mom time so I can do this author thing. Thank you to my first readers: Dana Mason, Katie Mettner, Nancy S. Thompson, Maureen Downey, and Torese Hummel. Thank you to Cindy Doty. Thank you to my Entrada readers. Thank you to Matty Dalrymple and Jane Kelly for helping keep me focused and for being ready on a daily basis to help me with even the smallest writing issue. You ladies are a Godsend! Thank you to my grandmothers: Helen Conlen and Marilyn House; my parents: William Regan, Donna House, Joyce Regan, Rusty House and Julie House; my brothers and sisters-in-law: Sean and Cassie House, Kevin and Christine Brock and Andy Brock; as well as my lovely sisters: Ava McKittrick and Melissia McKittrick. Thank you as well to all of the usual suspects for your unwavering support and for always spreading the word—Debbie Tralies, Jean and Dennis Regan, Melisa Wolfson, Tracy Dauphin, Laura Aiello, Ann Bresnan, Karen Powell, Amy and Starkey Quinn, Claire Pacell, Jeanne Cassidy, the Regans, the Conlens, the Houses, the McDowells, the Kays, the Funks, the Bowmans, and the Bottingers! I’d also like to thank all the fabulous bloggers and reviewers who read the first nine Josie Quinn books or who have picked up the series somewhere in the middle. I really appreciate your continued enthusiasm and passion for the series!
Thank you so very much to Sgt. Jason Jay for always being there at a second’s notice to answer all of my crazy law enforcement questions without ever getting tired of me! I am so incredibly grateful for you. Thank you to Lee Lofland for putting me in touch with any expert I needed to help with research for this book. Thank you to Kevin Brock and Michelle Mordan for so patiently and thoroughly answering each and every one of my very detailed questions about EMTs, paramedics, and life-saving procedures. Thank you to Elizabeth Trostle for answering my many college swimming questions at all hours of the day and night, and for teaching me the word natatorium! Thank you as well to Geoff Symon for helping me work out the drowning scenario!
Thank you to Jenny Geras, Kathryn Taussig, Noelle Holten, Kim Nash, and the entire team at Bookouture for making this endeavor so smooth, so exciting and so damn much fun. Last but never, ever least, thank you to the incomparable Jessie Botterill for holding my hand during the writing of this entire book; for shuffling the schedule around so many times; and for talking me down whenever I went into a panic! I could not ever write a book without you now, and I would not want to! You are the most brilliant and patient editor in the world and also one of the most fabulous human beings I have the privilege to know!
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