Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks Books in Order
Part ofLisa Regan Books in OrderSee the Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks mysteries by Lisa Regan in order, with summaries, background and tips on where new readers should start.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
2 books
Losing Leah Holloway
by Lisa Regan
2017
Years after escaping her kidnapper, Claire Fletcher is still rebuilding her life when she witnesses a mother drive a car full of children into a river. Working with Detective Connor Parks, Claire uncovers the dark truth behind Leah Holloway's perfect facade and its links to a serial strangler.
Finding Claire Fletcher
by Lisa Regan
2012
Divorcing and under investigation, Sacramento detective Connor Parks spends a drunken night with a stranger who vanishes by morning. Her single clue sends him chasing a decade-old abduction and a captive woman who has learned that anyone who helps her dies.
Series background & context
For the Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks books, Lisa Regan starts with a nightmare scenario and stays with it long after the headlines would fade. The series follows Claire Fletcher, abducted as a teenager and held for a decade, and Connor Parks, a Sacramento detective whose personal life is falling apart when he stumbles into her story.
In Finding Claire Fletcher, Connor meets a young woman in a bar on the worst night of his career and wakes to find her gone, leaving behind only a clue to a long-cold missing person case. The narrative moves between Connor's frantic investigation and Claire's life inside her captor's carefully controlled world, showing how survival can depend on tiny acts of defiance and the ability to read danger a split second too late or too soon.
By the time Losing Leah Holloway begins, Claire has escaped and is trying to build a new life, but she is still shaped by what she endured. When she pulls children from a sinking SUV and watches their mother choose to drown, Claire cannot walk away. Connor, now her former lover and an overworked detective, is already chasing a serial killer targeting suburban mothers, and Leah's death sits squarely in the crosshairs.
Together, Claire and Connor move through sunny Sacramento neighborhoods that feel safe on the surface but hide all kinds of threats. The books balance the mechanics of a police investigation with the emotional fallout of abduction and long-term abuse, paying close attention to how trauma echoes through families, friendships and romantic relationships.
Across the series you can expect high stakes, tight pacing and plenty of twists, but also a deep concern for what it would actually feel like to live through these crimes. Claire is not simply a victim rescued and forgotten; her choices, fears and hard-earned strength drive the story as much as Connor's badge does.
If you like crime novels that blend psychological intensity with procedural detail, and that follow both a determined detective and the survivor he is trying to save, the Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks books offer a dark, human look at what it takes to escape and to heal.
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