#Book Review #Local Girl Missing (Detective Josie Quinn Book 15) By Lisa Regan #Bookouture Publishers #Crime Thriller #Mystery Novel

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW

Wow! I absolutely loved this crime mystery novel. It can be read as a stand alone novel from the series. This is my first book I have read of Lisa Regan's murder mystery. Detective Josie Quinn and her husband lieutenant Noah worked for the Denton police department, among the mountains in Central Pennsylvania. She and her husband was travelling from their honeymoon back home for twelve hours in the fog on widow's ridge road, they had to pull off their car seeing the figure of a girl running through the fog into the woods in front of their car followed by a scream. She was injured and bleeding. What was she running from? They found another teenage girl being attacked and murdered at the same spot and a man trying to run away from this scene. The suspect jumped into the roaring creek. The crime scene is secured by officers along with a vehicle they start to search for the man. The vehicle is registered to Guy Hale, Dina's father. From the girl's driving license was picked up from the location, Josie finds the names of the two girls. One murdered is "Dina Hale", Eighteen years old, lived in Denton, the other one is Alison Mills, Seventeen years old, also from Denton. The novel begins when a strange man had emerged from the fog on a winding mountain road and suspected to have attacked two girls. Gretchen, the homicide detective, Noah and Josie prepares to investigate the crime. 

Alison and Dina were kind of best friends met at the hotel they worked together. Josie and Noah interrogates Dina's and Alison's family. Josie gets to know that Diya took drugs regularly in the past. A copy of the driver's license of the man Josie saw running and jumping down roaring creek belonged to Mr. Elliot Calvert's. Searchers found his phone and cufflinks on the bank of the creek.  What was he looking for doing attacking the teenage girls all the way out in the wood? He was a married father of a newborn. After the morning events, lives were shattered. Why didn't  the girl Alison Mills flag down anyone she saw or call the police? 

Dr Feist, confirms to the detective that cause of Dina Hale's death is strangulation with such a force that he fractured her hyoid bone. With all these findings and evidences, there are missing gaps still to reach and find Dina's perpetrators. Will Josie and her search team find the missing girl Alison Mills? With plenty of twists and turns in the plot, the story will keep you guessing till the end. I highly recommend this novel for crime mystery readers. I would rate it 5 star!!

I just reviewed the novel Local Girl Missing (Dectective Joise Quinn Book 15). Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture publishers for an advance copy for my honest review.

Book Description

On a winding mountain road into the small town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the body of a local teenage girl, Dina Hale. The sight of plum-colored bruises gathering around the girl’s neck pierces Josie’s heart, but the discovery of a second girl’s empty purse in the dirt nearby gives her a flicker of hope that one person, at least, made a lucky escape.

Dina’s parents are grief-stricken as the town rallies together in a desperate search for the second girl, Alison Mills, who waitressed with Dina at a local hotel. The two best friends were on their way to a shift when they were attacked. Josie was too late to save Dina, but she won’t rest until Alison is home safe.

Hitting a dead-end with interviews, Josie thinks she’s on to something when a photo surfaces suggesting Alison was romantically involved with one of the hotel staff. But when Josie arrives at the man’s house to find a bullet in his head, and the house ransacked, the case comes crashing down.

Evidence of frantic searching at both crime scenes has Josie convinced a twisted killer is on a hunt for something very personal and precious. And that they won’t stop until they find it. But how many innocent lives will be destroyed before Josie can uncover the missing piece at the heart of this deadly puzzle? And what sacrifices will she have to make to find Alison alive?

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bookouture (August 11, 2022)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 11, 2022
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 1779 KB

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 421 page