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Detective Josie Quinn Books in Order

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Browse the Detective Josie Quinn series by Lisa Regan in order, with summaries, character background on Josie and her team, and tips on the best reading order.

Last updated: December 25, 2025

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23 books

1

The Couple's Secret

by Lisa Regan

2025

Seven years after engaged couple Tobias Lachlan and Cora Stevens vanished after dinner, their car is discovered in a river with both of them murdered inside. A tiny old-fashioned key in Cora's ruined purse sends Josie digging into blended-family tensions and long-held grudges that someone is still willing to kill for.

2

Husband Missing

by Lisa Regan

2025

Josie Quinn comes home to a ransacked house, Noah's blood on the walls and her husband gone without a trace, just as they are preparing to adopt. While she investigates the high-profile stabbing of a hospital protester, clues buried in her abusive mother's belongings suggest that Noah's disappearance is painfully personal.

3

Remember Her Name

by Lisa Regan

2024

A newborn is found alone in a park, a bloodstained photograph tucked in her blankets and no sign of her mother, Cleo Tate. When Cleo's body turns up at a site tied to an old Josie Quinn case, then more victims appear at former crime scenes, Josie realizes someone is replaying her past for revenge.

4

Her Dying Secret

by Lisa Regan

2024

A late-night car wreck reveals a shocking detail, the passenger was already dying from a stab wound and clutches a child's drawing that begs for help. The surviving driver, animal lover Mira Summers, claims not to know the victim, but her lies pull Josie into a race to save an unseen child.

5

Face Her Fear

by Lisa Regan

2024

Raw from personal loss, Josie retreats to a remote mountain therapy center only to be trapped there by a blizzard with five other traumatized patients. When one woman disappears and is found strangled in the snow, Josie realizes a killer is among them and that someone is watching every move.

6

My Child is Missing

by Lisa Regan

2023

Teenager Kayleigh Patchett and her little sister Savannah walk into the woods and only Savannah returns, sobbing that the Woodsman took her sibling. As a local legend sparks panic and more pairs of children are targeted, Josie must cut through rumors to find a very human predator.

7

Close Her Eyes

by Lisa Regan

2023

Nineteen-year-old Sharon Eddy is found murdered beside a rocky creek, a horseshoe-and-arrow brand burned into her skin. When medical examiner Anya Feist reveals she bears the same mark from an abusive ex-husband, Josie is pulled into a rural family saga where loyalty and violence run deep.

8

Watch Her Disappear

by Lisa Regan

2022

A teenage girl in a champagne prom dress is found stabbed outside the gym, her identity at first a mystery. When Josie recognizes missing girl Gemma Farmer and a second victim appears on her birthday, matching scars on their arms suggest a meticulous killer counting his victims.

9

The Innocent Wife

by Lisa Regan

2022

Popular television host Beau Collins returns to his secluded cabin to find his wife Claudia posed dead at an anniversary table, blood on her neck and a small puzzle box in her hand. When staff and friends are attacked in similar fashion, Josie must expose what really went on inside their perfect marriage.

10

Local Girl Missing

by Lisa Regan

2022

On a foggy mountain road, Josie finds the strangled body of Dina Hale and the scattered belongings of her best friend Alison, who has vanished. As Josie probes the girls' work at a local hotel and a secret romance, she realizes a ruthless killer is willing to murder to recover something priceless.

11

The Drowning Girls

by Lisa Regan

2021

Josie Quinn's team is shaken when their press officer Amber vanishes, and a different young woman is pulled from a nearby dam, bound and drowned. Strange numbers in Amber's diary and secrets in her family life lead Josie into a storm of betrayal where even her colleagues may not be safe.

12

Hush Little Girl

by Lisa Regan

2021

Twelve-year-old Holly Mitchell is discovered laid out on church steps in starry pajamas, a handmade doll clasped in her hands, just as Josie Quinn is about to marry. With Holly's mother dead and a younger sister in hiding, Josie must unravel a family's dark history before the killer strikes again.

13

Her Deadly Touch

by Lisa Regan

2021

Krystal Duncan, who lost her daughter in a horrific school bus crash, goes missing and is later found at the graveyard, lips sealed with memorial candle wax. As more bereaved parents die, Josie suspects someone in their grief support group is turning sorrow into a weapon.

14

Save Her Soul

by Lisa Regan

2020

Torrential rain in Denton exposes the preserved body of troubled teen Beverly Urban, still wearing a high school baseball jacket tied to Josie's late ex-husband. As Josie revisits her own past and a long-buried scandal among local wives, someone starts killing to keep those secrets submerged.

15

Find Her Alive

by Lisa Regan

2020

After a vicious argument, Josie Quinn's sister Trinity disappears while chasing a story at a remote hunting cabin. When bones are discovered at the site, Trinity's cryptic clues lead Josie toward a bone-obsessed serial killer, forcing her to gamble everything to save the only family she has left.

16

Breathe Your Last

by Lisa Regan

2020

Champion swimmer Nysa Somers is found drowned in a university pool, her talents making an accident hard to believe. When another apparent tragedy follows a cryptic instruction, Josie uncovers a pattern of staged deaths and a killer turning ordinary phrases into lethal commands.

17

The Bones She Buried

by Lisa Regan

2019

Arriving for dinner at her partner Noah's family home, Josie Quinn instead finds his mother dead in the garden, her mouth packed with soil and rosary beads buried nearby. Traces of a long-missing man tie the case to a decades-old disappearance and a dangerous secret Colette tried to keep.

18

Her Silent Cry

by Lisa Regan

2019

Seven-year-old Lucy Ross vanishes from a carousel in Denton city park, leaving behind only her butterfly backpack and a chilling ransom note. As someone close to the family dies after each cryptic phone call, Josie must uncover what the Rosses are hiding to bring Lucy home alive.

19

Cold Heart Creek

by Lisa Regan

2019

Newlyweds Valerie and Tyler Yates are found dead at their campsite by a remote creek, a crude wooden pendant forced down Valerie's throat and a third sleeping bag hinting at another guest. Josie follows the trail to an off-the-grid farmhouse and a frightened girl whose silence proves deadly.

20

Vanishing Girls

by Lisa Regan

2018

When golden girl Isabelle Coleman disappears from Denton, Detective Josie Quinn joins the frantic search and instead finds another girl no one knew was missing. Mute and traumatized, the survivor points Josie toward a buried cold case and a predator hunting vulnerable teens.

21

The Girl With No Name

by Lisa Regan

2018

A battered single mother lies in a coma and her newborn baby is gone. The only lead Josie Quinn has is a terrified young woman who claims she does not know her own name, drawing Josie into a deadly mystery involving a fertility clinic and years-old grudges.

22

Her Mother's Grave

by Lisa Regan

2018

Human bones unearthed near a trailer park where Josie Quinn once played are identified as a murdered foster girl named Belinda Rose, the same name as Josie's abusive mother. As new killings rock Denton, Josie is forced to dig into her own past to stop a killer driven by buried secrets.

23

Her Final Confession

by Lisa Regan

2018

A college student is shot dead in the driveway of Detective Gretchen Palmer, one of Josie Quinn's most trusted colleagues, with a photograph pinned to his collar. When Gretchen unexpectedly confesses, Josie races to unravel her friend's hidden history before a relentless stalker claims more lives.

Series background & context

Detective Josie Quinn works in Denton, a fictional small city in rural Pennsylvania where everybody seems to know everyone else, at least on the surface. Lisa Regan uses that setting to great effect, showing how secrets can survive for decades in a place full of overlapping families, old grudges and powerful local institutions.

From Vanishing Girls onward, each book gives Josie and her team a self-contained case, often involving missing teenagers, family annihilations, buried bodies or long-cold disappearances. The investigations follow familiar police-procedural rhythms, interviewing witnesses, chasing lab results, knocking on doors, but they regularly veer into unsettling territory, closed religious groups, toxic friendships, hidden abuse and the ways money and influence can tilt justice.

Josie herself is a big part of why readers stick with the series. She is stubborn, sharp and sometimes reckless, shaped by a childhood marked by neglect and cruelty that she slowly unpacks over the early books. She drinks too much at the start, trusts too little, and often pushes her colleagues and loved ones away, yet there is a strong moral core beneath the rough edges. Doing the right thing matters to her more than rank or politics.

The people around her matter just as much. Noah, Gretchen, and the rest of the Denton PD crew are not just names on a roster but recurring characters with their own traumas, families and growth. Across the series you watch friendships fracture and mend, romances falter and deepen, and a team of co-workers gradually become a chosen family, even as their jobs force them into one horrifying scene after another.

One of the hallmarks of the Josie Quinn books is how closely the crimes intersect with Josie's private life. Old cases touch her extended family, enemies target the people she loves, and even a simple call-out can echo something she thought she left behind. That personal stake raises the tension but also allows Regan to explore how a detective carries trauma from one case into the next and still gets up for work.

Although the body count in Denton can be high, the series never loses sight of ordinary detail, the diner meals, the cluttered desks, the small jokes between colleagues that keep people going. The tone is fast and suspenseful, but there is room for quieter moments of connection and the slow, uneven work of healing.

With more than twenty books and counting, you can either follow Josie from the beginning or drop into a later case and pick up the threads as you go. Either way, expect twisty plots, emotionally charged revelations and a heroine who keeps getting back up, no matter how hard life in Denton tries to knock her down.

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