Her Silent Cry is the 6thBook in the Josie Quinn series written by Lisa Regan.
I have been lucky enough to have been on board with this series from the start, and I’ve loved every book. So could this one live up to my expectations. Definitely.
The main character Josie Quinn has had a rough ride, from childhood to Detective, and that story alone would be worthy of its own book, but you won’t be left behind if you read this as a stand-alone.
Lisa Regan has a way of writing that I rarely come across. She manages to make the read comfortable, whilst covering the most horrific of crimes. This is never “cosy-crime”, but the stories always slide by really quickly.
Her characters are amazing, Quinn is feisty, pretty, stubborn, and a hell of a good cop.
Her partner Noah is a bit of a mystery to those that don’t know him, and there’s a good reason for that, but Quinn knows him, and they spark together brilliantly
The victims suffer, and boy do some of them suffer, at the hands of some of the best criminals in fiction at the moment.
The setting is perfect Denton, a small town in the US surrounded by forests and mountains means Regan can set just about any crime she wants in a realistic surrounding, but the best part is the isolation she finds in scenes set in the wilds. If it was a film I’d be watching from behind the sofa
So here’s my review of Her Silent Cry, book six in my favourite American Crime series
Her Silent Cry Lisa Regan
For once Detective Josie Quinn is having some time off and has taken a friends young son to the park for a day out. The piece is soon shattered when a 7 year old girl goes missing, right from under her parents noses, in the same park.
Off duty or not Josie is soon directing operations to try to find the girl. Joined by her team, and a good proportion of the local community the search proves fruitless.
Against her boss’s best wishes Quinn calls in a specialist FBI team that specialise in investigating the abduction of children.
The FBI and Quinn’s team are at a loss to identify the abductor, until a phone call to the parents strikes fear to everybody’s hearts. Their demand, or lack of it, is chilling, and would be every parent’s nightmare.
Quinn has formed a good relationship with the family and the FBI begin to rely on this, but is she getting all the information she needs from them.
This is a cracking story.
One simple crime, an abduction, strikes fear into the community, but things start to get worse.
Lisa Regan has built a strong community of characters in this series. She uses their emotions and feelings to permutate through the story and build up the suspense.
Unlike most series any of these books can be read as a stand-alone. The reader will learn bits of the back stories of the main characters, without being left wondering what is going on.
The setting is perfect. A small City with plenty of isolated rural areas, which allows Regan to set parts of the book in a built up area, whilst having all the suspense of settings in remote country areas.
This book, and this series, ideal for fans of crime series written by the likes of Angela Marsons, Patricia Gibney, Carol Wyer and Graham Smith.
Publishing Date: 14thAugust
Publishers: Bookouture
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