This is book one in a promising new series featuring Detective Josie Quinn, Set in Pennsylvania where girls are going missing and Josie is suspended from her job. A strong female character with ongoing personal problems of her own to contend with. The plot felt a bit familiar at times but overall, this is an author to watch out for. Thanks to Net Galley for my copy. I reviewed on Amazon, Goodreads and Facebook.

Fans of Lisa Regan will be delighted to see a new series, featuring Detective Josie Quinn. If you haven't read anything of this author, this would be a good place to start.

Detective Josie Quinn is a strong, independent woman, secure in her own skin and her job. That is, until she screws up and batters a woman in her custody. She's on unpaid leave, waiting for a hearing to see if her career will stand.

Two girls have recently gone missing in recent time. They found one of the girls ... a girl they hadn't even known had been missing. Of the other girl, nothing has been seen since. Josie wants in on the search, but the Chief of Police has denied her request.

She's been bugging Ray, her soon to be ex-husband and also a detective, for information. She also has questioned Luke, a State Police Officer and her brand new fiancee. They are all warning her to stay away, she can only hurt her own career by doing her own investigating. But she's stubborn and one-minded and wants justice ....

"The trail leads Josie to another victim, a girl who escaped but whose case was labelled a hoax by authorities. To catch this monster, Josie must confront her own nightmares and follow her instinct to the darkest of places. But can she make it out alive?"

This is not my first book read by this author. I like her writing style and her story-telling abilities. Her characters are memorable, and more importantly, credible. I so enjoy the way her characters all interact with each other .... with love, anger, remorse, sorrow .... all the emotions are always exposed.

This new series has twists and turns that start to feel like being on a roller coaster. The plot is definitely an attention -keeper. The ending is exciting ,, maybe just a touch overblown, but riveting, nonetheless. I look forward to following more adventures of Josie.

Many thanks to the author / Bookouture / Netgalley for the digital copy. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

I really enjoyed this book. There is a lot packed into the story. Josie is currently suspended from the police force. When a girl goes missing she is determined to help in any way possible whether she is allowed to or not. The case is complicated and other girls have been missing in the past. I do not want to give away any spoilers. The perpetrators are a surprise and how many people are involved are a total shock. The plot and the short chapters make this book really gripping from the start and definitely worth reading. I hope there are more books about Josie.

Josie Quinn is not the type of girl that takes no for an answer. When a local girl vanishes from her small home town of Denton, Pennsylvania; Josie a member of the local police force, springs to action. However, Josie, recently placed on paid leave is quickly dismissed by the chief and told to keep her nose out of it. But, again Josie never takes no as an answer - she is the type of character that kicks ass and asks questions later.. As she continues her investigation, Josie is lead down a dark, twisted, Ill path to which she will be lucky to escape with her life. 10 stars for this sick tale - ok Goodreads 5 stars. It's a must read! Thank you, NetGalley for this Arc and to the talented author, Lisa Regan - I look forward to more adventures with Josie Quinn! ❤️

Gripping from the offset, and keeps you guessing all the way through.
Who can you trust, when the whole town seems to be hiding something?

This is the first book in a new series featuring Detective Josie Quinn. A teenage girl goes missing and Josie has to conduct her own investigations as she has been suspended from her duties due to an assault. Josie is a very gritty character. She is in the middle of divorcing her ex husband Ray, who was also her childhood sweetheart, whilst engaged to her current partner Luke. More girls disappear, with no clues as to what has happened to them until one of the girls turns up. She is traumatised but Josie is determined to find the most recent missing girl and also what had happened to the girl who has turned up.
This is a brilliant start to a new series, I was racing through the book not wanting it to end. It was well written, plenty of tension, twists and turns and left me guessing right to the end. Can’t wait for the next book.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

First of all, thank you Netgalley for giving me the chance to read this ARC. Sexondly, I have a lot of feelings. A lot. I liked this one. There wasn’t a lot of twists and turns but it was a great thriller. The main character was troubled but likeable. The side characters all played their roles well. Everything fit well together. What this book managed to do that not a lot of other things accomplish is it made me feel for the characters. I just liked it a lot. Read it.

If you love reading books with a strong female lead, you’re going to love this one! Josie Quinn is a hard-ass detective in a small town in central Pennsylvania. Suspended from active duty for failing to rein in her temper and still struggling with the end of her marriage, Josie finds herself drawn into weird happenings going on her in small town in central Pennsylvania. Women are disappearing and the only clue Josie has is a name…Ramona.

Luke seems like a good man and he makes her happy, but there’s something missing. Will Josie have a new love interest soon? I’m so glad that this is just the start of a series. I will be eagerly looking forward to the next book. Lisa Gardner fans should not miss this one!

This mystery thriller of a novel captivated my attention when it began somewhere in the past, rather than starting in the present. The protagonist of this story is a female detective named, Josie, who has recently under investigation from an incident that occur while she was n duty. Already into a great start am I right? Already in the middle of something troubling when I started this novel and It’s one thing I like how the story goes. you just dive right in. You get to learn more about her in bits of pieces while trying to uncover the missing girls investigation.
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A dark and twisted story featuring a strong female protagonist with little regard for the rules. It keeps your attention and has some great twists towards the end. What took me out of the story a little was how completely unrealistic some parts were. In the real world, I seriously doubt Josie would still have a job or any colleagues left that still liked her. Details about those plot points would be considered spoilers, so I'll just say I'd recommend some suspension of disbelief for this story.

Quiet Denton, Pennsylvania has been rocked by the disappearance of a teenager. With little to go on, they're not getting far... but they do find another girl who's been missing. This one was assumed to have run away, so she didn't get nearly the same amount of media attention as the latest girl. She's clearly traumatized and refusing to speak to anyone. The only thing they manage to get from her (in a very strange way) is a name: Ramona. Detective Josie Quinn is convinced this girl can lead her to the one still missing, but she's on suspension and isn't supposed to be working the case... as if she'd led that stop her from investigating.

Still using connections she shouldn't be and disobeying the orders of her chief, Josie isn't letting her suspension for use of excessive force slow her down. She's convinced they won't find the girl in time without her help, and if they don't want it... she'll work it on her own. It isn't long before she connects the cases to one from years ago: a woman who was taken and then dumped a couple of weeks later, naked and bound. It was dismissed as a hoax, but Josie isn't convinced. Her co-workers aren't getting anywhere, but can she figure it out before it's too late?

This series has a lot of potential, and I think Josie has a whole lot of room to grow. I'll certainly read the next one. This is a twisted tale for sure.

I received a copy of this book from Net Galley and Bookouture, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

Bold and striking: two words that describe the cover perfectly. And these words apply to Vanishing Girls itself as well, because this new detective series goes all out and buries you under a mountain of intense and action-packed scenes. I picked up this thriller on a Saturday afternoon and found myself to be so utterly engrossed I completely forgot I had other things to do. The writing style is engaging and allows you to jump right in. There is a lot going on in Vanishing Girls and there is not one boring minute with the non-stop action and plot twists getting thrown right at you. That said, I almost felt there was too much going on and I started to doubt about the credibility of it all. I’m not saying I didn’t love this story, especially since I like my thrillers dark, intense and suspenseful, but still… Especially the final part felt a little bit too close to the credibility border. The main character Josie Quinn is without doubt another interesting one and a perfect example of a kick ass female detective. The fact she is on a suspension and doing her own investigation anyway adds a little something extra, and I like how well fleshed out and rounded her character felt. There are a few cliches involved, like the complicated and dark past and personal life in general, but Josie Quinn is mostly forgiven for those cliches as she bulldozers through the secrets and lies and gets things done. I do wonder how things could continue on the same level after such an explosive ending, but I’m definitely curious and will be coming back for more. Intense, fascinating, disturbing, suspenseful… Thriller fans, read this book!

Every once in a while, I come across a writer that I have never read before, I read the book and wonder ‘how the devil have I not read books by this writer before?’ This is just such an occasion. ‘Vanishing Girls’ is the first book by Lisa Regan that I have read but going by how much I enjoyed it, it certainly won’t be the last. I LOVED ‘Vanishing Girls’ but more about that in a bit.
Detective Josie Quinn is the main character in the book and what a character she is too. She is currently suspended from her role as a detective following an incident. As the book progresses, we gradually find out more about what happened and Josie’s reaction to it. Whilst she is on suspension, a girl called Isabelle Coleman goes missing and the town’s small police force begins to investigate. Detective Quinn so wants to join in the search but as she is on suspension she is unable to join in officially, so she conducts her own unofficial investigation. Detective Quinn does not like being told that she cannot do something and it has the opposite effect of making her even more determined to do it. Josie is certainly a rebel and then some. During the course of the investigation, a girl is rescued but the problem is that nobody has reported her as missing. Quinn tries to piece together the rescued girl’s story, whilst trying to find Isabelle Coleman. Quinn is a courageous woman, even if she does sometimes place herself in unnecessary danger, which she frequently does. Quinn seems very angry at the world and most people in it. There’s no doubt that Detective Quinn has issues and that she has experienced some traumatic events throughout her career. She seems to have used alcohol as a coping mechanism, which is a mistake. Quinn’s investigation sees her investigate a third disappearance, which was cruelly dismissed as a hoax at the time. Quinn comes to some shocking conclusions and leads her to question what she thought she knew. Will Detective Quinn ever be able to trust anybody again? Will Quinn be able to solve the mystery of the disappearing girls? Will any lives be lost? Will Quinn ever have her suspension lifted? Well for the answers to those questions and more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves as I am not going to tell you.
My initial thought on finishing the book was ‘blooming heck (or words to that effect) what a fantastic story and rollercoaster ride that was’. The story hits the ground running and maintains the pace throughout. To say I was addicted to the book from start to finish is something of an understatement. The book reeled me in from the very first word on the very first page and kept me hooked until the last word on the last page. It was almost as if the book had me under a spell. For me ‘Vanishing Girls’ really is a ‘CPID’ (can’t put it down) book. It was almost as if the book was glued to my hand because it came everywhere with me. I usually have the attention span of a gnat and I am easily distracted but not in this case because I was able to shut out any other distractions, just so I could concentrate on the story. I would say that reading ‘Vanishing Girls’ is much like being on one of the scariest rollercoaster rides because there are lots of twists, lots of turns and several moments where you just want to shout out a rude word and put your hands over your eyes because you fear what is going to happen next. Well I was the same with this book. I almost had to read through my fingers because I feared what was going to happen next but I also knew that I had to read on because I needed to know how the story ended. There were also times when something happened that was so unexpected and shocking that I couldn’t believe I had just read it and I had to read that section again. The story could be pootling along and then bam, an incident happens which is so unexpected that reading it feels like a punch to your stomach and it knocks the breath out of you.
In short I totally LOVED reading ‘Vanishing Girls’ and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series featuring one of my favourite female detectives Josie Quinn. Here’s hoping that I don’t have too long to wait. I would definitely recommend this book to others. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is an easily well deserved 5* out of 5*.

Thank you NetGalley for the copy of Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan that I read and reviewed.
This is the first book in a new series that I thought was excellent. If it was anything like what any of the books that are going to be in the rest of the series Lisa Regan has has a hit on her hands.
Detective Josie Quinn the main character is a great lead for the series. She is spunky and is the full package for what I am looking for when I am reading a book with female detective lead. She was willing to do what she had to to get to the answers and she had did not care whose toes she stepped on to get her answers.
This book was an excellent read and I highly suggest it because it one of those books that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Vanishing Girls gets five out of five stars.

Girls are not the only thing vanishing when you open Lisa Regan’s book. Time ceases to matter, dogs get neglected, thirst is forgotten, hunger is a vague memory. Your condition as a human being disappears. Only the reader is left. A reader with awfully gripping chapters at the tip of their finger.

Don’t let the title mislead you. This book isn’t about your usual missing girls. You thought those were scary and right out of a nightmare? Haha, how innocent are you! Vanishing Girls takes the tragic, heart-stopping, unbearable and cold event of girls going missing and turns it into a tragically realistic and gruesome story around one of the most fascinating female police offer I’ve met since Angela Marsons’ Kim Stone.

I took a liking in Josie Quinn, our main character, very quickly. Her stubbornness and her bossy way reminded me of myself when I’m in work-mode (poor coworkers!) and her frustration about being left out of the pending missing girl case was palpable, it was too real not to feel genuine. Being suspended is difficult enough, but when things happen and you get caught in the middle, knowing you could actually help your coworkers, this is pure torture!

For the second time in the last five minutes, she felt like a stranger in her own world.

Having Josie stuck on the side, a cop with handcuffs, having to rely on herself, her connections, and her brain instead of being on the field, with a team and a complete access to the investigation was a great idea, but it would only have made an okay story hadn’t the writing been so personal, so spot-on and captivating. The combination of a lonely cop and a detailed, clever writing that doesn’t let anything to chance makes Vanishing Girls a story you devour faster than a baba au rhum! I was on Josie’s side, and Lisa Regan made sure it felt a lot like us against the world!

There are so many things I need to praise in this story that I don’t know where to begin. Hints are everywhere, but you need the right light to see them. A bigger picture is set for you and a chess game starts, with you wondering who are the other players. I was going to mention an OMG moment, but the book itself is an “OMG what the hell?!?” thing! The intricate but so plausible web the author weaved around Denton made me queasy and naively hope this would stay locked in the pages of the book and not happen in real life!
So, the OMG award is given to Vanishing Girls for maintaining a high writing quality throughout the entire book, a strong array of secondary characters, emotional moments that can’t leave you stone cold, and one of the most wicked plot I have ever read which makes me want to suspect everyone and move on the moon on my own!!!!

Love, loss, holes left by people who have been and gone, darkness, emptiness, hope, strength, guts, blood. You want it, you have it.

Another thing that makes Vanishing Girls special is the way the case envelops and smothers Josie in a professional and personal way. No part of her life is left untouched and it makes things personal for the reader too, making it even easier to fall for Josie Quinn. The barrier between the woman and the detective is blurred, forgotten even, as you go deeper into the investigation, deeper into the darkest places on Earth.

Lisa Regan offers a stunning characterization that makes you build an opinion on every protagonist you meet. You are bound to feel something, no matter which feeling it is, and your emotions evolve with the story, like a roller coaster, just as in real life. Actions and reactions, feelings on the spot, emotions after a good night of sleep, you get the difference, you get the burn of words spoken too fast, or sentences left unsaid. There is a weight to every relationship Josie has which brings a layer of authenticity to the book and takes Vanishing Girls on the highest rank of my book list.

Vanishing Girls is a hell of a book, a true crime story focusing on the right spots to make you beg for more! My first new favorite series of the year!

Thank you to Bookouture for letting me take part in this tour. With my new love for Crime books well and truly taking hold this was a book not to be missed.

The story follows Detective Josie Quinn as she tries to locate missing girl Isabelle Coleman. I was very confused when I first began reading as Josie is actually on suspension and I kept wondering how she was going to do this while she was not technically working but it played out better than I could have imagined. Josie is bad ass! She also has a lot of layers. She has had a troubled past and I cannot wait to delve into those layers and unearth more about her. She is going to be a fascinating character as the series progresses. 

There are  a few side characters that I really enjoyed. Lisette is awesome. I  have noticed recently that I love old people in books. In some ways they are like children where they aren't afraid to say it how is it. The difference with old people is they have the experience that children lack. This experience has taught them that you can't please everyone so you should be true to yourself.  The other character I really liked was Noah. At first he seemed like a bit of a wet fish but as the story progressed he became one of my favourites. 

Lisa's writing is gritty but not explicit. This book deals with some real dark crimes but Lisa manages to do so without shoving it in the readers face which is quite a skill. I really struggled with guessing where this was going and I really had to rely on Josie to figure it out for me.  I cannot wait to see what Lisa brings for book two!

The first book in a new series never fails to be exciting for me - especially when I get to the end and am disappointed that I don't have the next one at hand. Such is the case here, and I'm already hoping the author is well into the writing of book No. 2.

The star of this show is Josie Quinn, a detective with the Denton, Pa., police who's been put on leave following allegations of use of excessive force (where she lives is of some relevance to me since in about 15 minutes we can be in the Keystone State). There's not a lot of question that Josie did the deed; but it's also true that she had a traumatic childhood that has left her with serious emotional scars, so I suppose it's understandable that she's got a hair-trigger temper. She's still married to childhood sweetheart and fellow cop Ray, but only because he refuses to sign the divorce papers; in fact, she's now engaged to hunky state cop Luke (thus jumping from the frying pan to the fire a bit too fast for me to have much sympathy should things go wrong).

As the story begins, Isabelle Coleman, a beautiful and popular girl from town, goes missing. Not long thereafter, Josie narrowly misses being struck by a car that's occupants are being shot at - a car filled with gang-type guys and a local history teacher, the latter of whom lives long enough to utter the name "Ramona" as Josie tries to help.

Next comes another stunner: Another girl turns up, unresponsive and near death - a girl no one realized had been missing. Even more confusing, she's got a tongue piercing exactly like Isabelle's. Does that mean the two cases are related? Could Isabelle still be alive? Who in blazes is Ramona? Wondering minds, especially Josie's, want to know; but since she's currently prohibited from taking part in any official police investigation, she's got to figure out how to get away with on-the-sly sleuthing.

She does try to convince the police chief to let her work the case, but her pleas fall on deaf ears every time. So, she relies as best she can on Ray, Luke and an ethically challenged TV reporter - at least, until some buried facts come to light that change everything she's believed about the case - and about many of the people she's known and loved. Worse, what she's learned puts her square in the crosshairs of some people who will stop at nothing to keep their long-held secrets secret.

There's no shortage of action (sometimes a bit over the top), so the whole thing kept me pretty much on the edge of my seat throughout. Many thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review it.

"You can't always be all roses and sweetness...that don't get shit done."

Detective Josie Quinn of the Denton, Pennsylvania police, has a bit of a temper and is on suspension after using excessive force during a call out for a disturbance of the peace in the rural town of about 30,000 people. So, she can't get involved in the search when teenager Isabelle Coleman is apparently abducted even though the department is stretched thin, especially after a highway shooting leaves 3 apparent gang members dead at the Stop and Go gas station. Of course Josie won't sit this out, especially after she discovers that there may have been other instances of kidnapped girls that might be linked to this case -- a girl that no one even knew was missing is found in a catatonic state. The only real clue is a name -- Ramona. Who is Ramona?

This fast-paced police procedural is full of surprising revelations as the full scope of the "vanishing" girls is discovered. That small town has many secrets. NO SPOILERS.

There is a lot of room for character development in the future episodes in this series, and I hope that Josie becomes her own person rather than a copy of all the other female detectives in books of this genre -- let's "un mess" her up, OK? Women can be great cops without being so damaged, can't they? Another issue for me was the romance with Luke (and leave out the sex scenes -- a pet peeve of mine) as Josie needs to get her head on better before she's too deep in another relationship.

I enjoyed this debut in this crime thriller series and am eager to see what case comes next as Josie assumes her new role in the department.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the e-book ARC to read and review.

Vanishing Girls is an entertaining, gripping and suspenseful story that had us lost in the untamed, dense woody coulee. Things started off quite quickly as the unexpected emerges from that one-laned windy road and our main character Detective Josie Quinn is thrust into the middle of some action. With a case on her mind that isn’t supposed to be on her mind, she is determined to find answers. Answers become more questions for Josie and for us. Things started to slow down for us as we get to know Josie and follow her search for answers.

We felt a little cold in the coulee shortly after meeting tough and flawed Detective Josie Quinn. It took us awhile to warm up to her. It was her relationships that won us over. We became quite invested in her relationships and found ourselves cheering for Josie and her high school sweetheart Ray. This was a bit surprising for three of us non-romantics who quickly usually roll over to the eye-rolling Coulee at any sign of romance. Lisa Regan does such a great job drawing us into their relationship and allowing us to care so much for them. We grew to really like Josie as we got to know her more and of course when we found out why she was suspended we like her even more.

Things really started to pick up as Lisa Regan takes us down that an intense, heart pounding fast one-lane windy road in the coulee filled with secrets and lies and shocking moments that left us resting in the grassy, tamed lush coulee. We are looking forward to more from Detective Josie Quinn and the next book in this series.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Bookoutoure and Lisa Regan for the opportunity to read and review a copy of this book.

Pub date January 17, 2018

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I’ve always been a fan of Lisa Regan’s ‘Claire Fletcher’ series, and was delighted at the release of a new series by this author.

Book one starts out with a massive bang!
Josie, her marriage disintegrated and her career on hold from a suspension, finds herself in the middle of not one but two murder scenes. For tough as nails Josie, taking a step back for personal problems is not an option, even though she’s risking everything!
As young women keep disappearing, Josie takes it upon herself to investigate. The stakes are rising as people around her are getting seriously hurt. Someone has something to hide...somebody wants to keep her away from the truth!

Lisa Regan takes you down a dark road of lies and deception. It will leave you breathless and questioning who you can trust? And is anyone in this small town safe?

Short chapters with a storyline that flows easily. The characters are all portrayed vividly, giving you a strong sense of who to root for (and who not to!!). The ending leaves you knowing this is just the first for a great new series! I’m already looking forward to reading Lisa Regan’s next release!

A wonderful & exciting Traveling Sister read!:)

Thank you to NetGalley, Boutouture and Lisa Regan for an ARC to review in exchange for an honest review.

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3.5 stars

This was an action-packed crime thriller that follows Detective Josie Quinn on her journey to uncover hidden truths and secrets surrounding the disappearance of several local women. Quinn is on a work suspension when the novel starts, but she just can’t seem to stay away from her police departments’ investigations.

I love Lisa Regan’s “Claire Fletcher” series so I was excited to start this new series. Unfortunately, this book fell short for a few reasons. I wasn’t a fan of the main character, Josie Quinn. I couldn’t connect with her or invest myself in any of her relationships. I found several parts of this story were highly unlikely. The implausibility largely took away from my overall enjoyment. This novel also took me a while to get into. Once I reached the 50% mark, the story picked up and was more of a fast-paced, page turner.

I read this with my Traveling Sisters Brenda, Norma, Kaceey and Susanne which was a pleasure. They all enjoyed this one more than I did and I strongly suggest checking out their reviews on Brenda and Norma’s fabulous blog at:

https://twogirlslostinacouleereading.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/vanishing-girls-by-lisa-regan-travelingsistersread-bookreview-lisalregan-bookoutoure-blogtour/comment-page-1/#comment-1157

A big thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and Lisa Regan for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review!!