Face Her Fear is a chilling, heart-pounding addition to the Detective Josie Quinn series by Lisa Regan. In this nineteenth installment, Josie Quinn is reeling from the recent loss of a beloved team member, struggling to recover from the trauma. In an attempt to heal, she and her husband Noah retreat to a secluded trauma center in the Pennsylvania mountains. However, what was meant to be a peaceful escape quickly turns into a nightmare.

At the retreat, Josie and her fellow patients, each battling their own demons, find themselves trapped by a fierce snowstorm. When one of the retreat’s guests, Meg Cleary, disappears, Josie’s instincts as a detective kick in. As the days drag on and Meg’s body is discovered, Josie realizes that this is no ordinary death—it’s murder. To make matters worse, the killer is likely someone within the retreat, and Josie is stranded without backup, trapped with a group of strangers, each with their own secrets and dark pasts.

The suspense in Face Her Fear is palpable. Regan masterfully builds tension as Josie uncovers hidden cameras, a growing sense of paranoia, and mounting danger. The isolation of the retreat, the eerie snowstorm, and Josie’s vulnerability without her usual team make this case especially intense. With food supplies running low and no way to contact the outside world, Josie must rely on her wits and instincts to unmask the murderer before anyone else falls victim.

Josie Quinn continues to be a deeply compelling protagonist, grappling not only with the immediate danger but with the emotional scars of her past. Regan's pacing keeps readers on the edge of their seats, balancing intense moments of terror with Josie’s internal struggle as she fights to regain control in a situation where she is both physically and emotionally at her most vulnerable.

Face Her Fear is a twisty, gripping thriller that will keep fans of the Detective Josie Quinn series (and fans of psychological suspense in general) eagerly turning the pages. With its high stakes, nail-biting tension, and a cast of intriguing, mysterious characters, this book is a must-read for anyone who loves a good mystery that’s as emotionally charged as it is suspenseful. Regan proves once again why she is a master of the crime thriller genre.

This is the nineteenth book in the series featuring Detective Josie Quinn. Josie is still reeling from the death of one of her team, her partner Mette. Then when she receives more devastating news her partner Noah persuades her to join a retreat to attend a PSTD course for a few days. It is being held in a remote mountain location with no phone or Wi-Fi access. When one of the other six members of the group is found dead, Josie realises that she cannot trust anyone. They are also in trouble as they cannot leave due to the heavy snowfall and she is not sure that their food and heating will last for many days. This book was a little different from the other ones in the series and was not one of my favourites but still an entertaining read. I look forward to the next book in the series.
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Another excellent novel by Lisa Regan featuring Josie Quinn. She heads for a trauma retreat in the mountains of Pennsylvania where a snow blizzard hits the area and cuts them off. Then a dead body is discovered of a woman called Meg Cleary. The reader is led through a series of twists and turns until the final pages.

Poor Josie Quinn.
In this latest book, number 19 in the series no less, she again finds herself in some scary and challenging situations...
I love getting back with these characters, it's like welcoming them home after a long break.
Josie goes to a retreat to try and recover from recent events, and arrives head first into a murder mystery.
I enjoyed the change of setting, away from the 'usual' crime scenes we have previously seen. The characters and suspects all had something about them that interested me, and I was completely wrapped up in the story.
Another fabulous read.

MY FAVORITE SERIES OF ALL TIME!!!!! Book 19 in the Josie Quinn series WAS A RIDE. Let me tell ya Josie Quinn in a secluded cabin in a retreat SIGN ME UP I could go on and on and on about how much I love this series. I LOVED How JQ had to manage life without Noah or her team and how to survive life on her own. You could really feel how much love Josie and Noah have for eachother. The twists and turns were AMAZING I kept turning the pages and my jaw hit the floor at the conclusion!!

I always look forward to the latest Josie Quinn book, I can't believe we are already on book 19 series. Through Lisa Regan's writing I feel totally connected & engaged with the characters in this series & I enjoyed that this one was a little bit different from the 'norm'. It was great seeing Josie a little bit out of her comfort zone and not directly supported by her normal network. A great addition to the series.

I have loved all of the books in the Josie Quinn series. The author does a wonderful job of character development and I have come to care so much for Josie and her husband, Nathan. The focus of this particular book was a little different than the typical police procedural that you experience with Josie. But you will still discover that she is one tough bird while learning to handle the trauma of her childhood and the horrible things have happened since that time. The individuals who have joined Josie on the retreat to help with her PTSD are each unique and watching Josie discover who they really are and what traumas they have experienced will keep you invested in the story. There are twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat drama until the last page. If you have not had the chance to get sucked into the life of Josie Quinn, I encourage you to go back to the first book in the series and discover what has brought her to this point in life. It is a journey worth taking.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookoutre for my advanced review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

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I was looking through my unread Kindle books and realised I had not read this one. What a lovely surprise! Lisa Regan never disappoints, and this was well written with a cast of well excellent characters and a plot with lots of twists and turns.
I would thoroughly recommend and a 5 star rating from me.

Slowly catching up with this series but this one was slightly different...Josie was on her own!! It felt very much like a locked room mystery because Josie was locked in the snow up a mountain.

So much to unpack with this one, but Mets...Oh, sweet Mets..... that's all I will say.

Noah and Josie have had a falling out - blasphemous indeed! She goes on a retreat but the snow comes down and then the bodies start to come out. Noah is trying to get to Josie, but he has been prevented... it was intense!

This had a different feel to it, Josie being secluded, forced her to look at things differently, and more into herself. This self-reflection is definitely what she needed. I re-read my review for Book 18 and I ended it by saying I hope Josie goes on her retreat, boy do I regret that now!!!

It was completely messed up, and I'm not sure we got all our answers but it was a sad tale, aren't they always? But riveting!

As always Kate Handford knocks it out of the park with her narration of everyone, and she amplifies the fear and tension as we are in a race against time with the elements! Boy did I feel it!

Not my favourite in the series but it was good for Josie to get Josie time and self-reflect and I am intrigued to see how this will change her!
Not a fan of the newbie either, but I do hope he turns that around!!!!!

This one was a nice change up from the usual Josie Quinn adventure!

Josie goes to a retreat for people with trauma and oh boy does some crazy stuff happen! But of course because crazy things seem to follow her along her adventures! This one is more about Josie and her peers at the retreat. Who is telling the truth and who is lying....

This is my book #19 in the Detective Josie Quinn series by Lisa Regan. I have loved this series and can’t wait to see what happens next, I highly recommend the read and the series😊

Detective Josie Quinn is just recovering from the devastating loss of a team member when she is called to investigate another case. A woman has gone missing at a local retreat.

Josie will find herself in peril, along with the other retreat members when they are stranded due to inclement weather. Can she find the killer before anyone else falls victim?

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

4.5★s
Face Her Fear is the nineteenth book in the Detective Josie Quinn series by best-selling American author, Lisa Regan. Plagued by insomnia since the death of her close colleague, Finn Mettner, Josie agrees to go on a therapy retreat at a mountain hunting lodge in Sullivan County with psychologist Sandrine Morrow and five strangers. Perhaps it will help her overcome the trauma she has been carrying from her troubled childhood and also cope the grief over the death of her beloved grandmother.

Sandrine aims to provide a safe space for all of them and offer multiple ways in which they might process some of the life trauma they’ve all endured. She engages her clients in a number of therapies, about most of which Josie is rather sceptical: her insomnia hasn’t really improved much. She’s also troubled by the tension that ensued, just prior to leaving, after she told her husband Noah the result of recent medical tests.

But most concerning: it’s December, the lodge is isolated, there’s no wifi and very patchy reception for the cell phone she snuck in, and a snowstorm is threatening to cut them off from civilisation when their supplies of food, wood for the fires, and fuel for the generator are all running low.

And even that might be OK were it not for five other troubled souls processing extreme trauma, whose psychological issues are now perhaps distilled by Sandrine’s techniques and therapies: guided meditation, body scans, rage room sessions, yoga, flashback halting, to name a few. Or perhaps the fact that more than half of those present have not been honest about who or what they are.

Because on day six, with the caretaker off down the mountain to get supplies, one of the attendees is missing, and a search finds her halfway down the mountain, in the snow, dead. Josie can’t help but go into detective mode. She manages to get a few messages out to her Denton colleagues, and learns that Noah is already on his way.

With a blizzard in progress, Noah is determined to bring Josie to safety, but the challenges he faces include more than extreme weather: he’s unaware that there’s been an unexplained death on the mountain, and that the dangerous stalker of one of the women on the retreat is on the loose.

As well as improvising to try to preserve the scene, Josie doesn’t know who can be trusted: has she picked the right person in whom to confide? As she turns it over in her head, speculating and second guessing and theorising, she hears the voice of her late colleague, Finn advising, admonishing and encouraging her.

This instalment certainly provides quite a bit of tension, action, drama and several twists before the final reveal to keep the reader engaged, while the colleague newly installed in Finn Mettner’s desk promises to provide a bit of friction in future instalments. Another Lisa Regan page-turner.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Bookouture.

This is book number 19 in the series. Still going strong. This one is so much different from her other books. I love a book set in the snow so I very much connected to it. The setting was what I loved the most.

As always, when i get my hands on the newest Josie Quinn, I immediately dive in. This installment was so different from the previous books in the series! It was atmospheric and so tense! Josie was essentially working alone in this one and it was a powerful read. While I missed the rest of the crew, I enjoyed this installment and bringing the focus back to Josie. I loved it and can’t wait for the next book!

This is another fantastic story about Detective Josie Quinn! This series is one of my favorites, and I couldn’t put this one down. This story follows Josie as she goes on a retreat to help her process all of the grief and trauma she has been through. While she was out in the middle of nowhere with strangers, a storm rolls in and someone dies. To Josie’s trained eye, she knows it wasn’t an accident. Now she has to figure out who did it, while realizing it has to be someone she is stuck amongst.

I cannot wait until the next story! I highly recommend this series if you enjoy detective and “whodunnit” stories.

** I was given a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review **

This book was Amazing, I love Josie and the gang!! The mystery was top notch in this new installment of the series, and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole book!! I would highly recommend this book to everyone!!

After 18 books in this series you’d think Ms Regan would run out of plots but once again she out did herself.
This story was less of Noah and more about Josie and her mental health and ability to solve a case.
I was definitely going back and forth throughout the whole book on who was the killer.
I honestly wasn’t sure until the end of the book.
Can’t wait for book 20!
Keep them coming Lisa Regan!

Definitely a "can't put it down" kind of book, and a scarier setting I can't even imagine!

Josie is off to a retreat in the mountains, for people with complex PTSD, and it isn't easy to get there. Once a snowstorm occurs though, Josie and her fellow retreat members discover it is impossible to get off the mountain altogether. Unfortunately, they have a killer in their midst so this ratchets up the tension a couple of thousandfold.

A tense read but Josie's team and husband provide her with a soft place to land.

4.5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture.

I always love the Josie Quinn books. This one I have to think was one of my absolute favorites. It had me hanging by my toes through some parts. Lisa did not disappoint. Can't wait to read more!

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to receive an advance readers copy of Lisa Regan, Author’s newest Josie Quinn novel, Face Her Fear!

I have been blessed to receive the last 10 books as ARC’s from NetGalley, and I’m so thankful to be one of the first to read and review the book!

If you know me at all, you know that Josie Quinn novels are my favorite, and I usually take my time with them over a couple days to process. This one was different. I think I read the book in under 15 hours, I could not put it down! This time I did not have time to reread the last couple books - I used to reread the entire series before taking on the next novel but with this being #19, it’s just not possible anymore. I do enjoy rereading 1-8 every now and then.

Join Josie on another adventure - this time to a secluded mountain resort for a therapy retreat. She is one of six patients, and each has their own story to tell. One of the patients of the therapy group goes missing, and Josie is immediately thrown back into detective mode. This time, it’s completely different - there is a blizzard, no communication, no help. What will Josie do?