Lisa Regan delivers another gripping installment in the Josie Quinn series with Husband Missing. From the shocking opening to the heart-pounding conclusion, this book kept me hooked. The stakes feel higher than ever as Josie races against time to find Noah, all while confronting painful secrets from her past. The twists are expertly woven, and the emotional depth adds another layer to the suspense. And that ending—absolutely phenomenal! I never get tired of a Josie Quinn book, and this one is easily a five-star read.

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Thank you, NetGalley, for the early release copy in exchange for my honest review!

Josie arrives home to her home trashed! Where is her husband and dog. I like despite her fear she was in cop mode searching her home and noticing changes of missing items.
Evidence has this crime connected to her case so she's on forced leave. Hunting for clues herself it appears to be connected to her life long ago.
I loved watching all these pieces fit together, connections from long ago and crime in the present day. Evil never dies it appears in the offspring.
The days tick by, is Noah gone for good? That was the scary part for the continuation of this series. I just raced through this book, the final chapters...chef's kiss I loved it.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for this and the many fine mysteries that this publisher produces.

Lisa Regan produced an excellent Josie Quinn mystery in Husband Missing, when Josie's husband Noah is taken, it turns out their are ties to Josie's messy familial history.

I really enjoyed the side story of the non verbal prisoner, I don't add spoilers to my reviews, but if you are a Josie Quinn fan as I am, this is a must read. The mystery Josie solved in this one that depended on her figuring out how something kept from multiple crime scenes was very clever and imaginative.

I look forward to reading more from Lisa Regan and other fine Bookouture authors.

4.25 stars
In the 22nd book in the Detective Josie Quinn series, everything is going great for Josie and her husband Noah Fraley, also a police officer in Denton, Pennsylvania. One day, Josie is called to the scene of a crime and when she returns home, the house has been ransacked, there is blood on the floor, but no sign of Noah! Josie is devastated when it becomes clear that Noah is missing and could be severely injured. Because of her close connection, she is taken off the case which makes it even harder for her to deal with the situation. Her friends, family, and colleagues rally around her. Josie is able to do some digging off the record and is shocked to discover Noah's abduction could be tied to her own traumatic past.

In this book, I miss having Josie and Noah working together on a case, but it does spotlight the bond between Josie and Noah and the love Josie's friends and family members have for her. The book also reveals even more about Lila, the woman who had kidnapped Josie when she was a baby. The ending of the case is heartwarming, but the very end of the book has a huge cliffhanger. I don't love that, but I am definitely eager to find out what happens next!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the advance copy of the ebook for review consideration. My review is voluntary and unbiased.

Husband Missing is book 22 in the Detective Josie Quinn series by Lisa Regan.
Regan did it again with a book that pulls you in from the first sentence and doesn’t let go until long after the last.
The story had me hooked from the start and with all the twist and turns.
The storyline was very fast paced, absolutely nerve-racking and heart racing and kept me consistently on the edge of my seat.
Her characters always draws the reader in and holds them hostage till the very end,
Overall a heart racing, page turning, addictive and unputdownable fast paced crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Right in the midst of what would have been a life-changing event for Detective Josie Quinn and her husband Noah, he goes missing. Clearly, something sinister has occurred, leaving behind some ambiguous clues. Josie is consumed by grief and desperation, determined to find Noah alive.

Josie, under orders to stay away from a recent crime under investigation, remains determined to find Noah. Her unwavering resolve shines through as she diligently searches for any clues. Meanwhile, her tragic past resurfaces, bringing her and her twin sister Trinity even closer together as they work together to find Noah.

This 22nd book in the Detective Josie Quinn series hits with a profound emotional impact, evoking a range of feelings, including a lump in my throat and tears to my eyes, both more than once. Despite knowing that her involvement would require a dispassionate approach, Josie’s inner turmoil is palpable. She fears a personal disappointment might be facing them once Noah is found. This underlying factor intensifies the emotional impact of the book. And then, the ending! Oh my goodness! I can’t wait to discover what the next book in the series has in store for us.

Many thanks to Bookouture and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

This is book 22 in the detective Josie Quinn series and I swear each book is better than the last! In this latest installment, Josie‘s world falls apart after she returns home from a case to find her home ransacked and her husband missing. Does it have anything to do with her recent case or is it unrelated? Josie will stop at nothing to bring Noah home.

A heartstopping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from one of my favorite authors. Lisa Reagan always delivers the twists and turns that will keep you reading late into the night. Highly recommend.

Well, I used to love this series. However, I think this will be my last one. I’m tired of family members constantly being in the investigation. I’m sorry, but Noah being kidnapped? Could Regan not come up with something better? Lila still being part of the storyline is getting old too. This was the 22nd book, let’s have something different. Josie has been through so much already, why do the storyline’s have to still be so personal. Can we not get something that doesn’t involve family?? With that said, they shouldn’t bring kids into their home…they would just get kidnapped also.

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!