The next installment of the Josie Quinn series book 22 is not to be missed! Lisa Regan can write a story that grips you from the first page and takes you on a journey that is a thrill ride you never want to end. Although Husband Missing is a standalone story, I recommend reading the previous books to fill in the background of all the characters in this series, but it does not prevent you from enjoying this fantastic read.

Josie discovers her home broken into, blood along the walls, and a trail of debris that shakes Josie to her core. Noah is GONE. She knows what she needs to do, but her instincts are telling her something else. She cannot lose Noah. Rallying the troops, the investigation begins. Josie focuses on another crime scene that happened earlier to keep her mind busy, but of course we know Josie is unable to let the inkling in her gut go. She works with Trinity, her twin, behind the scenes when she discovers a connection between her past and missing Noah. We discover more about Josie's past and some answers come to light, but is it enough to find her husband in time? What about their chances for their adoptive child? The twist at the end left me speechless.

Lisa Regan keeps you guessing until the very last page. The way she weaves her stories with her characters keeps you invested in the journey. The series just keeps getting better and better if that is possible. I can't wait until the next book. Highly recommend this book and all of the wonderful works by this author. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the Arc of this book.

This is my 1st but definitely not last Josie Quinn book! I was in the edge of my seat. Ms. Reagan draws you in from the 1st chapter. Josie and her husband are painting the nursery for a baby they hope to adopt.

Then Josie gets called into work. While she is at work her husband is abducted. She arrives home to find him missing and her house ransacked. She can’t work the case. She can’t be anywhere near the case. But it’s her husband.. She won’t rest until she finds him. She and her sister try to find clues. Josie notices a clue Noah left to her. Hand prints to lead her to the one person that can even haunt her from the grave. Can they take the clues and Find Noah? Thru a series of back tracking of people who were associated with Lila Jensen. The are led to the Lila’s child. She is scared and is afraid to tell the truth. Can the police get her to tell the truth. Will it help them find Noah? You won’t be able to put this book down!!

Amazing!!! Another pulse-pounding thrill ride!! Just when you think you know what’s going on another twist throws for a total loop!! Just when I thought the specter of Lila Jensen was finally done and put away for good she rears her ugly head.!!! The flashbacks had me thinking it was one character’s memories but nope it’s someone totally different!! This is a fast-paced rollercoaster of a novel that Lisa Regan fans will devour!!

The title of this book made me hesitant to read it - Noah should not be missing, or worse! Josie doesn’t need anymore trauma! However, knowing how much I love Lisa Regan’s writing and this series, I had to read this book immediately. I savored every moment, and funnily enough, the title being what it is helped me handle my emotions throughout the book better than if the title was more innocuous. Pulled back into her painful past yet again, Josie must face memories and process more of her history in order to find her husband and track down a killer. Tense, emotional, and captivating - this novel takes you for a wild ride and end up leaving you ready for more!

Thank you to Bookouture, Netgalley, and the author, Lisa Regan, for early access to entry #22 in this amazing series.

Imagine this: You step into your home after a long day, expecting warmth, normalcy—maybe even a moment to breathe. Instead, your world tilts. The furniture is wrecked. Your life, your memories—scattered like forgotten confetti. And then, the worst part: blood. Not just anywhere, but smeared along the walls, marking a path. Your husband is gone.

This is exactly where Lisa Regan throws us headfirst in Husband Missing, and trust me, once you’re in, there’s no turning back.

Detective Josie Quinn is no stranger to danger, but this time, it’s personal. Noah, her husband, is missing, and every instinct screams at her to find him. The catch? Her team thinks she should stay out of it. (As if that’s going to happen.) But the deeper Josie digs, the more twisted the case becomes—because this isn’t just about Noah. A murdered woman from a powerful family, a robbery, and a box of painful childhood memories are all tangled together in a way that makes your pulse race.

Regan masterfully tightens the tension with each chapter, leaving you breathless as the mystery unfolds. The stakes? Sky-high. The emotions? Raw. And Josie? She’s relentless, as always—but this time, the answers she’s chasing could cost her everything.

If you love a thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go, Husband Missing is the latest installment of the Josie Quinn series and is the book to pick up. Just don’t plan on getting any sleep—because you will be reading this in one sitting.

Thank you Bookouture for this copy via NetGalley for my honest and voluntary review.

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I read almost all the books in this series but this is the more intense, heartbreaking, tense. It kept me on the edge and made me feel for Josie.
The story is fast pace, full of growing tension and surpring twists that made me gasp and turn another page.
There's something in the past affecting the present, power, abuse, and a woman who fight for her man.
A twisty, dark, and gripping police procedural that talks about abusive people and the power of love and friendship.
Highly recommended
Many thankts to Bookouture for this digital copy, all opinions are mine.

Husband Missing by Lisa Regan is a police procedural featuring a police officer, Josie Quinn, who has been removed from the investigation into her missing husband because of her relationship to him. That also removed her from another murder as it turned out they were ultimately related. A woman is stabbed to death in front of a construction site belonging to her family’s company. There are no leads, at first, just questions. This is Josie’s case and she is on it. When she returns home that night she finds her home destroyed, although nothing is missing except her husband. She is nuts with worry. Her friends on the police force support her, but they have no information either as Noah is a police officer so they can’t investigate, but rather have had to call in the state police. After a sleepless night, Josie returns home, ostensibly to start cleaning up but also to follow clues Noah left for her and her alone. Where they led opened a lot of doors from Josie’s past, but more for other folks.

Josie Quinn is an excellent character who has shown growth and maturity through the masterful writing of Lisa Regan. She had a horrible childhood but with the help of many has grown beyond it. Noah has helped that happen. There were some touching moments in this story but the best one, although not really touching, was when Josie’s birth mother flew over a table to strangle Noah’s sister for disparaging Josie once too often. Made me laugh. The mystery was convoluted and there were many threads to pull, but with the help of her sister, Trinity, they uncovered the whole gruesome tale. Love Josie Quinn. Thanks, Lisa Regan!

I was invited to read Husband Missing by Bookoutre. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #Netgalley #Bookoutre #LisaRegan #HusbandMissing

Lisa Regan has written twenty two books in this series, this being the twenty second one. The main characters are that of Josie Quinn who is a detective, and her husband Noah Fraley who is a lieutenant. Detective Gretchen Palmer, and detective Kyle Tucker.

Josie and Noah are getting a spare room ready for a baby. No,she's not pregnant, but they are going to adopt a baby. At least that is the hope. They can't even pick a paint color at the moment so who knows how the heck this is going to go.
That's when Jose's phone rings. I guess that's what happens when you are on call. It is Det. Gretchen Palmer and she was tied up with a shooting and there was a body at the build site of the children's hospital. She couldn't get a hold of Det. Tucker so she needed someone over there ASAP. The next Josie knows she can't get a hold of Noah. She stops by the house and it has been ransacked. She finally finds their dog Trout but no sign of Noah. She calls in the Calvary. Needless to say she is off the case and they hand it over to a Heather Loughlin. She is a Detective with the state police Criminal Investigation Division. While everyone is trying to put all the pieces together she and Trinity, Josie s twin sister, do a deep dive into Lila Jensen, which was the woman that raised or should I say terrorized Josie until she was fourteen. Why you might ask? Well, due to the fact that certain things in the house were missing that led Josie to suspect that the Missing Husband has everything to do with this, although dead, woman!

Things as you can imagine get very exciting in this book. I have read all twenty two of these wonderful books and if I have to say it this is my favorite! I think it's because it has tied everything up and give everyone such rich history. Good and bad.
Thank you Lisa for another amazing read!

Happy Reading!

Wow! Wow! This is my first Lisa Regan book but it won’t be my last. If you want a captivating story with lots of action, you will not want to miss this story. This starts out exciting as Josie and Noah are preparing for their first baby by adoption. Then one day, Josie comes home to find their home in disarray with lots of blood and Noah is gone. Josie’s world is turned upside down. Now she has to put her feelings aside and put on her detective hat. However, due to Noah’s disappearance case and her recently assigned case, the two cases seem to be connected. Therefore, she has been banned from the investigations. But that doesn’t stop her from doing her own investigating. To say this story will keep you at the edge of your seat, is an understatement. Thank you NetGalley for ARC for my honest review.

I am definitely a fan of this series. And truly feel that it could be a Netflix series without a doubt.
This one opens with a happy beginning. Josie and her husband Noah are working on a baby nursery. They are trying to get approved for adoption.
Josie heads off to work and her whole life changes.
She catches a case that eventually she figures out has a lot to do with her past. All while finding her husband missing and trying to find him. It doesn’t take long to see that these two cases are in intertwined.
You talk about the edge of your seat! I can’t even imagine what Josie goes through thinking she will never see Noah again.
Great job Lisa.
I read this ARC and return my honest review.

I don’t know how Lisa Regan does it but she writes a captivating police procedural that you can’t put down. Josie and her husband Noah are happily painting a room for their, hopefully, soon to be adopted little one when she is called to a crime scene. When she returns home she finds it torn apart and Noah is missing. This is a very emotional book because of the love between Josie and Noah and their relationships with their team. This book and the entire series is in of the best police procedural books I’ve read.

This book absolutely rocked it!
I did have a lot of trepidation when I began reading because of the title and synopsis.
We see Josie at her most vulnerable and actually break but she never gives up.
My favorite line in the entire book was “she was coming for him.”
I really enjoyed the back story of wretched Lila. My heart did break for Roe because looks are deceptive and she endured hell.
Of course the book ends on a cliff hanger and I thought I might have to be in the war path at the beginning of the book but now I sort of am because I need the next JQ now!

My favorite mystery series!!! I adore Lisa Regan and as long as she is writing Josie Quinn, I will be reading it! It's incredible to me that she is still able to find new ways to create stories around these characters and leave the readers wanting more. Josie is so delightfully human, while also showing incredible strength, and I love getting to know new depths. The family dynamics in this one were the perfect addition. I am still on the edge of my seat for when we finally get Turner's story! Forever looking forward to the next one!

Brace yourself for the latest Josie Quinn book as it’s a fast paced, heart pounding crime thriller.
I think this is my favourite book in the series as it shows Josie’s vulnerable side but also her determination to solve the case and find Noah.
As per the blurb, Josie arrives home to find every room ransacked and Noah missing. Her whole life crumbles but she is determined to find him.
She’d been out investigating the murder of a woman near a protest site and is shocked when it is linked to Noah’s abduction.
Despite being taken off the case due to the link to Noah, Josie and Trinity start their own investigation. Gretchen and Turner tell them what they can but as the days pass, Josie is desperate to find Noah.
This is a gripping, fast paced crime thriller that I’d highly recommend.
Thanks to Bookouture for the opportunity to read this book.

What a nail biter! This was a well crafted and emotional read with some surprising twists and what an ending! This book will have you laughing, crying and cursing. Continued character development and their relationships along with great mysteries keep this series fresh. I cannot wait for the next one.

OMG!! This one took me through a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish! I was thoroughly invested from start to finish and stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to finish it in one sitting.
I love coming back to this series and the characters I have come to know and care about, I knew going into this one that it was going to be especially devastating with Noah missing and the links to Josie's past, which, while horrible, I'm endlessly interested in.
We get dual perspectives, and I really enjoyed trying to figure out how the second person was linked to Noah or the other case Josie was working on when he went missing.
This was full of twists and turns and new information about the past. And I loved. every. moment. I can't wait to see what's going to happen next in this series!!!!

Talk about intense! Lisa Regan has done it again. Had me on the edge of my seat! These characters have me so invested that I feel like they are all friends in my head. I love Josie and Noah as if they were my family. I was so afraid to get to the end that I prolonged binging. Lisa sure knows how to pull at the heart. I never want Josie Quinn to go away. If you haven’t read any of the JQ books, start binging now. Cant wait for the next one.

I’d like to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Husband Missing’, book 22 in the Detective Josie Quinn series written by Lisa Regan, in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

While investigating the stabbing of Gina Phelan, daughter of the powerful Phelan family, Detective Josie Quinn returns home to find it’s been trashed with copious amounts of blood spread throughout and her husband Lieutenant Noah Fraley missing. Josie isn’t allowed to investigate Noah’s abduction herself so is relying on her closest friends and colleagues to work on her behalf, although that doesn’t stop Josie and her journalist twin sister Trinity from making enquiries of their own.

‘Husband Missing’ is the latest fast-paced thriller in this totally gripping series that’s had me hooked from page one and has a plot so involving that I couldn’t stop reading. It has everything I want from a thriller, suspense, intrigue, danger, and so many twists and turns that I had no idea how it was going to end and whether everyone at Denton Police Department was going to survive. I’ve enjoyed meeting up with Josie and Noah, Josie’s twin sister Trinity, as well as Detectives Gretchen Palmer and even Kyle Turner who shows that maybe he’s not such a douchebag after all, not forgetting their loveable dog Trout. I admit that at times I had tears in my eyes, and readers of this amazing book won’t need to be told why when they’ve reached the end. Every time I read a Lisa Regan thriller I think it’s the best yet but this latest one really is, and I’m so looking forward to reading book 23 to find out what’s going to happen in the private lives of Josie and Noah.

JQ 22 kept me on edge for the entirety of its pages.
I seriously don't know how Lisa Regan devises these plots but it must be magic.
Josie's long day at work turns in to several long days OFF work when she comes home to find her husband missing, the house trashed, and blood everywhere.
Though she can't be involved in the investigation, her gut leads her to the cause of nearly every awful thing that's ever been done to her - Lila. The monster who kidnapped her as an infant is reaching out from beyond the grave to try and steal her happiness.
You won't want to put this one down, and if you're like me, waiting for the next in the series might just be torture.

My heart stayed in my throat the entire time I was reading this book. Noah is missing and Josie is sinking further and further into darkness, understandably so. Josie has been through so much tragedy in her life. Now she cannot even investigate her own husband's disappearance. There can be so possibility of impropriety. She is about to jump out of her own skin. She is a justice seeker and top notch investigator. She does not like sitting on her hands.

When they realize that Noah's case and the current case are connected, the collision of these two cases is like a stick of dynamite. This was another great mystery/police procedural starring one of my favorite fictional characters, but this one was also very emotional for the characters, and actually myself, as the reader. Just when I think Lisa Regan cannot pull another fast one and twist me up, she does it again. I did not have any clue where this book was going to end up, and shocking does not even begin to describe it once all the odd puzzle pieces starting falling into place.

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.