Find Her Alive (Detective Josie Quinn #8)

I have read all the books in this series, and each time I read one I was convinced it was the best one! This one may really be the best one!!!
Josie and Noah make me smile They have gone through so much together, and I like reading about them. I am so glad I discovered this series with the first book. Meeting Josie and reading about her horrific childhood made me feel so sorry for her, and then reading about her as a detective (Chief for a short time) and her unique ability to process information and solve Murders made me in awe of her. I am glad that I had all the background on everyone (except FBI Agent Drake), so reading as they worked together
to solve the Bone Artists Crimes and find Trinity made it easier to concentrate on the killer and his unusual family. WOW! Also, thank goodness for Lisette.

Im not sure if this book – #8 – or if Vanishing Girls – #1 – is the best in this series! Each book seems to be better than the last! Loved this book and each character in the series! I love how all the characters have been developed with each story. I love that the story progresses in steps as each clue is searched and the steps taken to find each clue. I love how the sisters story progresses in each book and the family is starting to come closer together and that the author didnt make them all one big happy family from the beginning of their knowledge of each other. All around great characters, great mystery and great story! (If you like a good mystery with a strong female lead written by a female, its really best to start with #1 book if you can!)

Josie Quinn hasn’t had the greatest life. She was kidnapped as a baby by a vicious nasty woman who terrorized her “daughter” from the time she could remember. She sliced Quinn’s face when the girl was about 5, and left more than just that visible scar. Through the series, writer Lisa Regan has probed her protagonist’s hidden past and shown a woman who has emerged strong, although somewhat damaged, and more than able to get into a criminal’s head and pull out what it takes to solve the crime and rescue those still alive. In “Find Her Alive,” the eighth in the series, Quinn’s twin sister, who she was reunited with three years previous, disappears. The two had squabbled prior to Trinity going missing at a remote cabin, and Quinn agonizes over something she said. Trinity told her sister she didn’t really know her. Quinn agreed. The novel goes deep into discovering more about Quinn’s family and Trinity Payne’s difficult teenage years where she wished she had an ally, especially a twin sister. Regan developed her antagonist in parallel with the ongoing plot line, starting in the impressionistic childhood and chronicling how somebody grew up to do bad things. And that’s almost as good as tagging along with Josie as she tries to figure out the significance of the clue her sister left that could break open the entire case. Regan gives the impression she’s just as fascinated about what makes sick people tick as solving the case. In Quinn’s case, understanding both is the only way to save her sister. I didn’t want this one to end, but of course I read it too fast. Because I just had to know.

The series featuring Josie Quinn are quick, readable and center only on Josies friend or relatives. The only people who come to harm are her relatives or close friends. (Ex husband, ex husbands girlfriend, her co-worker, her boyfriend, grandmother, sister). The plots are thin and easy to figure out. Better not be a friend of this girl. The grammar is awful. The word HAD is used repeatedly, unnecessarily, incorrectly. Passive instead of action verbs.
I recommend these books as a beach read or a NY to LA plane trip only. Certainly not for serious readers, best to stick with Tess Gerritson or Kathy Reichs.

This series starring Josie Quinn is quite good. This is probably the most complex character study of all these books. Josie, like a lot of the heroines I favor, had a very rough start in life. She was separated from her twin sister Trinity when they were both babies. Trinity was raised in a nice home with loving parents. Josie was kidnapped and raised by a sadistic maniac. Nonetheless, she overcame the odds and became a top investigator.
Trinity became a star reporter and in fact covered Josie in some of her cases before they came to realize they were sisters. The reconciliation of Josie and her sister was welcome but also awkward.
In this story Trinity is captured by a madman. The story is about Josie and her team and their heroic efforts to find Trinity. The bad guy in this story, the Bone Designer, is not only complex, but also confusing. Finding him requires Josie to untangle his personality which involves dissociative personality disorder.
Lisa Regan is quite clever to have come up with a character like this and keeping the reader guessing to the end.

Fred Dimond

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