The Girl with No Name

Detective Josie Quinn, Book 2

By: Lisa Regan

Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

"Absolutely gripping… blew me away… Words can’t describe how good this book is." (Heidi Lynn's Book Reviews)

The USA TODAY top 100 best-seller you won’t want to miss! 

The high chair lay on its side, a toy elephant and a crumpled green blanket scattered across the floor beside it.

“She had a baby? Is it-?”

“The baby’s gone.” 

When Detective Josie Quinn is called to a large house on the outskirts of the small town of Denton, she’s horrified by the viciousness of the attack - smashed glass, splintered furniture, and blood spattered across the floor. The owner, a single mother, is fighting for her life, and her newborn baby is missing. 

A beautiful young woman caught fleeing the scene is Josie’s only lead, but when questioned it seems this mysterious girl doesn’t know who she is, where she’s from or why she’s so terrified....

Is she a witness, a suspect, or the next victim?

As Josie digs deeper, a letter found hidden in the house convinces her the attack, the missing child, and the nameless woman are linked to a spate of killings across the county, and Josie is faced with a heart-breaking decision....

Should she risk the life of one child to save many others? Or can she find another way to stop this killer before any more innocent lives are taken?

Nail-biting, twisty, and impossible to put down. If you love gripping thrillers from Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni, and Rachel Caine, you’ll be absolutely hooked! 

©2018 Lisa Regan (P)2018 Bookouture

Critic reviews

"Anyone who knows me gets that I really like a strong, female, kickass main character and that’s exactly what I got in Josie Quinn.... The plot motors along at breakneck speed often leaving me holding my breath. I’ll be waiting impatiently for the next instalment." (Angela Marsons, best-selling author of Silent Scream)

Horrible Narration

The storyline was interesting but I had to flip to reading as much as possible. I cannot continue this series with the same distracting narration.

She cannot pronounce her words. Just a sampling (I started writing them down for kicks). The first word is her pronunciation, the second word is the actual word:



Halster holster
Bean Been
Eastrogen estrogen
Toosled tousled
Pratest protest
Enything anything
Linth length
Holf half
Figger figure
Scrawling scrolling
Enythin anything
Transfurred transferred
Arer area
Noaher Noah
Shawn shone
Ider idea
Lunch launch
Awthority authority
Cocky khaki
Et ate

The narrator almost became the story.

My Book Review

The story and details were great, but the narrator needs to learn to pronounce words correctly.And if she's using local colloquialisms, they absolutely need to be correct. I have lived in rural western PA for over 20 years, and my son went to camp near Emlenton, so I'm familiar with that area of the state.

English

The story was very good. The narrator needs to learn the English language. She mispronounced words by dropping vowels and sometimes just mispronouncing them. It was annoying.

Distracting pronunciations - good characters

I started counting and negatively reacting to the narrator pronouncing “ate” as “et” and “anything” as “enah-thin” and “nineteen” as “niteen”. It distracted me from the content.

Plot line is good; hard to get past narrator

I enjoyed the plotline of this and the first book. But the narration is distracting; the story is set in Pennsylvania but the narrator is clearly not from the United States and uses a regional dialect from elsewhere that is inconsistent with American English (pronouncing been as “bee-n”) and full on mispronouncing other words (Nike is mispronounced as if it rhymes with Mike). Were this set outside the US, this wouldn’t bother me as its part of setting the stage; however, when the narration sounds Canadian it’s hard to have to keep reminding yourself you’re in PA. If there are more books in the series, I hope someone else is used.

Awful

This is a ridiculous, convoluted story with an unrealistic heroine made more frustrating by a very poor narrator. Her voice was poorly matched to the main character and included so many oddly pronounced or outright mispronounced words I gave up counting. I fault the audio director who must have slept through the whole project. Get your money ey back on this one. Wow

This one is OK for me.

Let me start by complimenting Eilidh Beaton on her narration of the story. She takes the reader on an exciting ride. Her voice works for the characters. I enjoyed her performance.

The story

Like the first book in this series, there are aspects of this story that I love. Lisa Regan is an excellent writer who builds tension and suspense. For that reason, I expected to like the story more than I did. I love a good dark character and Josie Quinn fits that bill. She is flawed and trying to figure things out.

I'm crazy about good support characters with many layers. Ms. Regan delivers there. Josie Quinn is continuing as chief. ( I wonder why the series is Detective Josie Quinn.) She is building an interesting new police force. Gretchen Palmer, a new detective has a lot of promise. I love Noah. He is developing into a great partner and friend to Josie.

What turns me off is the direction that the author is taking Luke. This decision isn't what I expected and I can't wrap my head around the author's decision here. I get that Josie isn't in the relationship 100% but this isn't the Luke we met in book1. It is the reason my rating is 3 stars instead of 4 or higher.

There are returning characters that I didn't expect, Misty for one. I didn't like her in book one and I like her less in this story. That isn't a negative for me because I enjoy a story that has characters that I love to hate.

In summary, Lisa Regan does an excellent job pulling me into the story. Ms. Beaton does an excellent job making the story and characters come to life. I'm not sure where Ms. Regan is going to take the series in general, and Josie in particular so I am going to stick with the series, at least for the next book to see if we see character growth.

Very poor performance

This performer was really awful. Mispronunciations all through, that made it annoying to listen to. Was glad the ending came so I knew what happened & could stop hearing her.

The narrator is horrible

This narrator is so poor with her mispronouncations and absurd accents that it really detracts from the story. I find myself disliking the lead character because the narrator makes a sheriff sound whiny. there is a 3rd book in this series, I think I will read it instead.

Narrator:

The narrator mispronounced so many words…ate, Nike, & the list goes on. It was pretty frustrating!

A steady character development.

With this book the main characters are further developed and filled out. The underlying childishness of the main character, is still my biggest problem with the series, but there is a underlying quality to the story.

Thoroughly enjoyable!

I was hooked from the start of the book. There are many twists and turns and a lot of characters involved to complete the story. I listened on Audible and the narration was very easy to follow. I look forward to reading the next book by this Author.

many twists and turns

enjoyed the story, a new author for me. Good plot, lots of characters with interlinking stories. Looking forward to more from this author. book brought to life by the narrator.

Very good

Very enjoyable, I hope this narrator reads the whole series. I’m going straight on to the next book.

There were many issues with the recording though.

*Secrets and Lies*

This instalment sees Detective Josie Quinn dealing with Misty who is the woman that her deceased husband Ray not only cheated with but he also fell in love with.

Josie is called to the scene of a vicious attack and Misty is the victim. The scene is full of carnage and completely viscous why? Not only is she a victim but her newborn child is missing.

Josie decides despite the conflict of interest that she can handle the case, but can she? At the same time her fiancé Luke who was shot is making slow recovery, she soon discovers he is also missing.

One conflict is that the house belongs Luke and Josie spots a woman fleeing the scene and upon questioning her the woman cannot remember who or why she was there. Josie is not buying her reasoning for a minute.

Lots of things about this case stink and it seems powerful people at the top are using all they can to cover-up mistakes as they call it from getting into the public eye. Young people are disappearing and Josie despite opposition from the Major is not going to let anyone stand in her way.

We get a slight reference to Josie’s past but this continual defensive stance she has begs the question, what makes her the way she is? Secrets and lies tend to catch up with you….

fantastic book

Great read . well worth the money really enjoyed another one of her books.

Fantastic story

Josie really has a rough deal in life such a fantastic story ad didn’t see that angle coming

Fantastic

Love this series, new Arthur but fast becoming brilliant,
Again kept me on my toes, Andorra like you get to know the background in the people in your he books, love Jose you know she is a strong woman, that’s got everything covered