Cold Heart Creek

Detective Josie Quinn, Book 7

By: Lisa Regan

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

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?

An addictive and gripping crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. Those who love Robert Dugoni, Angela Marsons, and Rachel Caine will be sleeping with the lights on after this roller-coaster.

©2019 Lisa Regan (P)2019 Bookouture

Love this series!

I have read the first six books of the series in e-book. I love them all and decided I was finally ready to buy a book! Josie is a very interesting character and with each book we find a little more out about her past. Yes, some of it is upsetting, but it makes this character so interesting!
With each book Lisa Reagan calls back another layer of Josie for us. The mysteries are wonderful and getting to know Josie and what makes her react the way she does holds my interest greatly! If you like Lisa Jackson, or even a good police procedural series, try one of these books! I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

Another awesome book. But the narrator...

I love these books, but the narrator has issues with pronouncing words correctly. Isn't there a production editor??!! My next listen through, I'm going to make a list! It's ALL THE BOOKS! I'm in the medical field, so those words are super important to get correct. The meaning can change if you aren't correct!

Great book

Another great book by Lisa Regan I'm gonna be downloading the next one in the Ceres

cold heart creek

great mystery, loved it a must read narrowrator was excellent also I really like this author.

A great book.

Really enjoyed this book. It just kept you going on and onr. Could not stop reading.

Did not care for this book

So drab listening to it that I stopped about chapter 4 could not listen another minute. Too many “he said” “she said”

Stunning story

thanks Lisa, we loved the whole series, they were all gripping stories. There is just one thing that offended us, was the blasphemy of Jesus as a swear word, you could have used “Oh Buddha” or “f###hammed” or “holy crap” but I guess you can only curse the True AND ONLY God! But we did enjoy the stories overall.

Good story but...

It felt slow and sluggish. I liked the story but I am unsure if it was the length or the narrator but i felt every min of listening to this book. Most audible books I listen to are similar in length but this one felt it. I enjoyed it enough though. Won’t be reading the next books though.

Love Josie

I read every book she writes. Enjoy the stories and the Josie is so well written into the tale. You feel like you are walking with her as she discovers the clues.

Disappointed with this story

The narrator was boring. The story was okay. I feel asleep listening to the book. Just only having Josie Quinn doesn't work. Noah, who from the first book was always interesting, this book boring. Her twin was not in the book, she was always interesting. I would like her to have more of a role, not less.
Lisa Regan took all the characters that helped with the Josie Quinn stories, not put them in or made the boring. I hope the next one to back with the story of the victim or killer and make the other characters interesting or in the story again.

Disappointing

I really like this series, but although this story it started well it just got boring. I got really fed-up with all the psychobabble and every time a character said “what does that even mean?” I waited in vain for an explanation. I hope the next one is more interesting!

Still listening

There’s not much to say except I’m still enjoying them, Josie is less annoying, the crimes remain complex and the characters have developed so well throughout that I’ll miss them when they’re gone.

A great series of books!

I’ve listened to all 7 of these books and hope I don’t have too long to wait for the next one! Very easy to listen to and excellent narration.