You can tell the author put her heart and soul into writing this book that is appropriately named Save Her Soul.

From the moment I saw that this book was going to be about Josie's dead ex husband Ray and their childhood I was ecstatic knowing it was going to be an emotional ride from start to finish. From the opening scene of a dramatic water rescue in the flood ravaged town of Denton to the finding of a decades dead body floating in said waters wrapped in her ex husbands high school letterman jacket you are glued to the pages.

Ray is long dead and he didn't die in the best light but he was Josie's rock during their childhood and such an integral part of her life during both the worst and best times. I love how the author has never swept him under the rug and keeps him a part of the story throughout the series. Josie and Gretchen's tenacity on finding out what happened to the dead girl that Josie went to high school was also riveting to read.

My only fault with this book is I didn't want it to end. I can't wait to see what's next in this series.

Lisa is One of the best crime writers in today's world and in this book she's at the top of her game. Highly recommended.
Lisa has it in her. She tells stories flawlessly.
Denton town, so beautiful and its heavily raining when the body of a young girl is came to the surface.
Detective Josie Quinn is called to investigate the case. It must be difficult for her to investigate because evidently there's no crime scene, no known motive, no suspects. All Jose has is a jacket with a known baseball patch which makes her shiver because her late ex-husband Ray had that same jacket.
On investigating further she came to know that that girl named Beverly Urban was in contact with her dead ex husband.
The story took a massive turn when the mother of Beverly is murdered.
Now it's clear to Jose that someone is out there who is really desperate to hide the truth but she would find it at any cost.
Well, I was glued to the edge of my seat by the ending of first chapter.
Lisa's characterization was meticulous. She really has done an awesome job and her detective Jose Quinn is becoming an unforgettable detective in crime fiction.
I loved the characters of Jose Quinn, Beverly, Mitch and Gretchen. I also loved the antagonist.
Narration of the story is simple, intersting and flawless.
I will definitely recommend this masterpiece to all my fellow Bloggers, Authors and Followers.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advance copy of this wonderful crime thriller.

Josie Quinn is a bada** and so is Lisa Regan! When book 9 opens, Josie is thrown into the action immediately, and quite literally! While floodwaters are taking over Denton, it's all hands on deck, including the detectives that are usually too busy solving murders. Josie has one chance to save an elderly woman in the water, but it's what she sees after the rescue that has her jumping back into the churning water to save. A blue tarp. Josie and Gretchen are convinced it's a body. The rescue boat driver is just mad she put their lives at risk for a tarp.

Spoiler alert: It's a body.

Whose and why it was buried under a house is the task that Josie, Gretchen, Noah and Mett are tasked with figuring out. To add to their problems, they have a feuding group of highfalutins over at the Quail Hallow Estates where the two mayoral candidates live. They're 'borrowing' city emergency resources to protect their homes while the rest of the city is underwater. The detectives and the chief are being pulled in a thousand different directions, but Josie is laser-focused on one: the fact that the dead body she found in that tarp was wearing her ex-husband's letterman jacket from high school.

As with ALL Lisa Regan books, giving spoilers is easy to do and that makes reviewing her books extremely hard. She weaves that thread so expertly through the storyline from the very first sentence that you don't finish unraveling it until the very last page. That makes giving an extensive review difficult at best. Kind of like trying to save an injured woman from flood waters and you're wearing nothing but underwear. (I PROMISE that will make sense if you read this book)

Josie is in the throes of a lot of issues in this book, though. She is faced with so many memories, both good and bad, from her past that she hasn't dealt with. She's still dealing with the aftermath of the case with her sister just a few months before, and she has very little emotional reserve left as she's watching her entire town be swallowed up by the river. When you add in lack of sleep, a decades-old murder, being shot at, and other such Josie Quinn danger moves, she's not doing too hot. She's coming apart at the seams and it's going to take Gretchen and Noah to keep her on track, especially when her grandmother drops another bombshell on her already broken shoulders. I wasn't sure she was going to hold it together this time, but when the moment arrived for Josie to stand up and fight for her family, her life, her town, and two women without a voice, she did so with all of her usual dedication, even if her voice shook while she did it.

Book 9 of the Josie Quinn series will give you more insight into who Josie was as a teenager and who she is now, and what she CAN become in the future if she starts trusting that who she is, is in fact, a bada**.