Watch Her Disappear

Detective Josie Quinn, Book 14

De: Lisa Regan

Narrado por: Kate Handford

Lying on the ground, the girl’s prom dress, the color of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist. She is perfectly still, like a delicate china doll, trapped forever in a sleep from which she will never wake....

When a call comes in about a young girl found dead at a high school prom—her life drained away from a fatal stab wound—Detective Josie Quinn drops everything to attend the scene. Taking in the girl’s neatly braided hair, Josie feels a flicker of recognition. But no one comes forward to identify this innocent child, murdered on what should have been the happiest night of her life.

Trawling missing-persons files, Josie realizes where she has seen the girl before. Gemma Farmer disappeared a few months ago, shattering her family. But why would her body appear now, on her 16th birthday? Josie’s only clue is the five neat little cuts on Gemma’s pale arm. Days later, another missing girl shows up, tucked neatly into her bed on the morning of her birthday, her favorite teddy beside her, her skin as cold as ice—and the autopsy reveals scars on her arm matching Gemma’s.

Her head spinning, Josie’s fears the marks are a serial killer’s twisted way of counting his victims. How many other innocent lives have already been lost, and how many more could follow? The case takes a terrifying turn when a local girl goes missing just days before she turns 16.

With the clock ticking, Josie turns the town upside down in search of answers. But when her own chief comes forward with the missing piece of a devastating puzzle spanning decades, will it be enough to get inside the mind of the most unexpected and elusive killer she has ever encountered, or will another precious life be taken?

An absolutely heart-stopping crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. You will be up all night biting your nails and listening! Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni, and Rachel Caine.

©2022 Lisa Regan (P)2022 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Exciting! Suspenseful!

Watch Her Disappear was so suspenseful that it was hard to stop reading so I could sleep! Took less than 2 days to read/listen!

another great one

I love how Josie is growing from her pain, last book was a tear jerker. This one had me tearing up when all the action happened. If you been following the series then you will learn more about the chief. He opens up to Josie.

All About Chitwood

the setup…
Detective Josie Quinn and the team are called to a high school prom where the body of a young girl is found. She’s dressed for the occasion except for the stab wound. But, she’s not a student and though she looks familiar, they can’t identify her. A few days later, they find another young girl of similar age posed in a church pew with similarities in her wound and other patterns. Before the team gets into the investigation, Police Chief Bob Chitwood intervenes and links the two to a cold case from many years ago that’s personal.

the heart of the story…
Since he first came on the scene, Bob Chitwood has been taciturn and an enigma. We finally get his backstory and he makes it abundantly clear how much he trusts Josie’s skills as an investigator. The return to his hometown was illuminating in so many ways and opened up not only the cold case but the two new ones. The procedurals were excellent, eclipsed only by the new dynamics between Chitwood and Josie.

the narration…
I’m continuing to enjoy Kate Handford’s storytelling but her mispronunciation of “femoral” (emphasis on the second syllable) was a bit jarring, especially since it was cited repeatedly.

the bottom line…
Another baffling case with exceptional procedurals but it was Chitwood being front and center that I found most interesting. I’m curious now that his relationship with the team has shifted how he will interface going forward. This just might be my favorite to date. 4.5 stars

Good story but…..

I rarely review a book that I’ve listened to,
However, The mispronunciation of the word
‘femoral’ every it was used nearly put me over the edge! Then there was ‘rifling’; same objection!
Please have the narrators familiarize themselves with rarely used words.

Best one yet!

It’s always nice to be familiar characters, story line was excellent. Up to end didn’t know who or how? Great ending