by Lisa Regan
The next day, Lucy’s parents are filled with hope when they pick up a call which they think is from their babysitter – but instead it’s a chilling male voice on the line. Josie races to the babysitter’s small apartment only to find her lifeless body in a tangle of sheets on her bed.
Josie is faced with the most high-stakes case of her career as each new phone call from someone connected to the family ends with the shocking discovery of another body. This twisted killer wants revenge, and he won’t stop until the Ross family are in pieces…
Something is telling Josie that Lucy’s parents aren’t giving her the whole truth, but digging deeper into their lives will force her to confront a life-changing secret of her own. Does Josie have what it takes to crack this case? She has no choice if she’s going to bring Lucy home alive…
An absolutely unputdownable new crime thriller from an Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Readers who love Robert Dugoni, Angela Marsons and Rachel Caine will be hooked until the final, jaw-dropping page.
Acknowledgements
Fabulous readers and devoted fans, I cannot thank you enough! Your relentless passion for this series is a precious gift. I can’t believe we’re on Book 7! Thank you so much for taking this journey with me. You are truly the best readers in the world!
Thank you, as always, to my husband, Fred, and my daughter, Morgan, for all your patience and support. Thank you to my first readers: Dana Mason, Katie Mettner, Nancy S. Thompson, Maureen Downey, Torese Hummel, Ann Bresnan, and Karen Powell. Thank you to my Entrada readers. Thank you to the usual suspects for all your support and love: Donna House, William and Joyce Regan, Rusty and Julie House, Carrie Butler, Ava McKittrick, Melissia McKittrick, Andrew Brock, Christine and Kevin Brock, Laura Aiello, Helen Conlen, Jean and Dennis Regan, Debbie Tralies, Sean and Cassie House, Marilyn House, Tracy Dauphin, Dee Kay, Stacy Stanley, Jeanne Cassidy, Michael Infinito Jr., Jeff O’Handley, Fred and Debbie Bowman, Susan Sole, Claire Pacell, Tanya Veitch, Tanya Anderson, Rebecca Squires, the Funk family, the Tralies family, the Conlen family, the Regan family, the House family, the McDowells, the Bottingers, and the Kays. Thank you to Jaime Kelly and Renee Crabill for sacrificing themselves! Thank you to the lovely people at Table 25 for your wisdom, support, and good humor. Thank you to Cindy Doty. I’d also like to thank all the lovely bloggers and reviewers who read the first six Josie Quinn books for continuing to read the series and to enthusiastically recommend it to your readers!
Thank you so very much to Sgt. Jason Jay for your unwavering patience in answering all my law-enforcement questions at every hour of the day and night. I am so incredibly grateful to you!
Thank you to Vicki and Chuck Wooters, as well as Rini and Quake, of Search and Rescue Dogs of Pennsylvania for your incredible instruction and for letting us come out and watch you work your magic with your amazing dogs.
Thank you to David Alford, Paul Bishop, and Andy Parker, instructors at the Writers’ Police Academy’s Murdercon 2019 whose classes helped me with vital pieces of this book. It was humbling to learn from you!
Thank you to Oliver Rhodes, Noelle Holten, Kim Nash, Jennie and the entire team at Bookouture for making this fantastic journey both possible and the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. Thank you to Caolinn Douglas for your spot-on insight. Last but certainly not least, thank you to the incomparable Jessie Botterill for your amazing work and input on this book. I’ve said it before but it’s still true: I could not and would not want to do this without you.
Published by Bookouture in 2019
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
