This series keeps getting better and better. You never know where the Author will lead you but you know it will be a wild and crazy ride. I love the characters. My heart was in my throat a few times on this ride. You know there is a murderer. No way will you guess who that is. That is how great this Author is. I wish the Author and publisher could have multiple books ready to read at the same time. It is very hard to wait for the next instalment. Many thanks to NetGalley, Bookoutre and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.

Wow this book had a moment that's almost heart attack inducing. The murders/killer aspect of the story is creative. Josie has come a long way and is finally acknowledges that she has a rather large family now both by blood and friendships. She is tenacious when on a case and stops at nothing until solves the case even if that puts her life in danger. Another great addition to the series and cant wait to see what's next.

This is book #10 in the Josie Quinn series. Whilst it is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone, although I would recommend reading the other books in order for better understanding of the stories. Now, in my review for book #9, Save Her Soul, I believe I said it was the best book of the series! Well...I was wrong, it's the second best as this book is definitely up there in first place!!!

We are back in the US town for Denton where Detective Josie Quinn is investigating the death of a young woman in a swimming pool. It's a strange case - the woman was a strong swimmer and there doesn't appear to be anyone else involved, yet Josie and her team are struggling to understand how Nysa Somers ended up fully clothed at the bottom of a swimming pool. When more incidents happen in mysterious circumstances around the town, Josie can only assume they are all linked somehow.

This was such an original storyline, so completely different to anything I've read before. I'm so amazed at how authors come up with these ideas!!! I love Josie's character and have followed this series right from the first book! It really does feel like I'm visiting an old friend!! Josie has, in previous books, met her fair share of crazy killers but none matches this book! The story is fast paced, enthralling and completely mesmerising, grabbing me at the first page and not letting go until the very last. The storyline is unusual but its definitely raised my heartbeat and had me biting my nails at every turn of the page. There seemed to be no links to any of the victims, and the author kept me guessing the whole way through the book. I had no idea who was responsible for the attacks and despite trying to work it out I didn't know until the author was ready to tell me!!

I love Josie's story in this book also. You get to find out much more about her character!! We get to see a vulnerability to her which we haven't seen much of and I have to admit to shedding a few tears along with her. Her relationship with Harris, her ex husband's young son is particularly heartwarming and I couldn't help but think what a good mother she would make. Equally her relationship with her partner, Noah is great and you can definitely feel her love for him. Noah does though, in this book, seem preoccupied with other matters of his own...

There was so much action in this book that I spent most of my time with my heart in my mouth!! We had drowning, fires, crashes, rescues, bridge jumps...the list goes on. Just when you begin to recover from one part, you find yourself right in the middle of another. But that's certainly not a bad thing, quite the opposite, it's absolutely brilliant!!!! I didn't want to put this book down and found myself reading into the early hours just to squeeze in a few more chapters.

Of course, Josie is joined by other characters, most whom we already knew. Her team are all back together and work so well together- Gretchen is yet again a Superstar in this book!! We meet her sister, Trinity again, and her younger brother Patrick is around to cause havoc with her laundry (you'll understand!!) I've still not quite made up my mind about Sawyer, so I'll wait and see what happens in future books! They are all though, a great supporting cast and complement the story so well.

It's definitely one hell of a rollercoaster ride, with so many twists and turns it'll make you dizzy!! It's energetic, exciting, thrilling and nerve-wracking!! Look no further if you want a police procedural thriller that will have you shouting O.M.G. at every page!! I love Josie and I loved this book!! Highly recommended!!!

Once again Lisa Regan delivers a cracking read!

Josie is easily one of my favourite detectives. She has gone through so much in her life, but she still always shows kindness and resilience.

The story itself is very interesting. I would recommend this!

Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan is a powerhouse Josie Quinn novel that builds on the greatness that is this series! You open each book in the series never quite knowing what to expect, and that’s one of the things I love about Ms. Regan’s writing. When Breathe Your Last opens, you are immediately creeped out, and you can’t help but love every single word of the killer’s prologue. There is nothing I love more than getting into the head of the killer and Ms. Regan does that with a steady, creepy hand throughout the whole of the book.

The book opens with Josie dropping Harris off at his new 4-year-old kindergarten class and then heading to her brother’s college to read him the riot act for being careless with his laundry. When she arrives at his work, the school pool, she forgets about her anger at him when she finds a young college student floating in the pool. When her revival efforts fail, Josie’s new case is never more apparent. How did the university’s top swimmer drown in a pool wearing her street clothes? Josie, Mett, Noah, and Gretchen set out to discover if it was a tragic mistake or if there was something more sinister behind it. Let’s face it, this is a Lisa Regan book, of course, there is something more sinister behind it!

As is always the case with Ms. Regan, every single word matters to the twisting, turning, loop-de-loop mystery that is a Josie Quinn book, and this one is no different. Once again, Josie finds herself in situations that are life and death on a daily basis. First, she must rescue a young girl from a burning house that, if you believe the girls who escaped the fire, their grandfather set. Their grandfather who was a celebrated Denton firefighter. Something was amiss in Denton and it all revolved around a baggie full of brownies, and a sticker that no one could decipher or attribute to anyone.

It’s smart to never count Josie out, though. Even without any leads, she will keep fraying at the end of the rope until that single thread she needs shows itself. In this case, she’s able to use the people closest to her to get the lead she needs. Surprisingly, it comes from her brother Patrick, a Denton University student who has inside knowledge of the things that have gone on there the past few years. I truly enjoyed this part of the book because it was nice to see Josie getting to know Patrick as a sister, and not a cop. She’s listening to him and seeing that he’s a good kid who even when he does bonehead things like turn her shirts pink in the wash, is smart, capable, and this time had the break she needed to find that thread to unravel.

I loved seeing Josie grow and move forward in her personal life in this book. The reader got to see a little bit of her vulnerability when things weren’t going right, both with the case and with Noah. Josie likes to pretend she’s a robot, but in the end, she’s not, and it was nice to see that she’s starting to admit to herself that she needs people around her who love and support her.
Breathe Your Last has such an intricate plot of connections that you won’t guess this one until Ms. Regan starts unraveling it for you page by page. The ending will shock you, and leave your heart pounding until the final page! Well done, Ms. Regan, once again you’ve written a can’t put it down thriller that elevates this series to the likes of Sue Grafton, Michael Connelly, Karen Slaughter, and James Patterson.