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Jocelyn
took a quick look up and down the street, gauging how long it would take her to
sprint to Martina’s door and back. It shouldn’t take more than ten seconds. As
a rule, she never left Olivia alone in the car—not even when she was paying for
gas—but the door was only twenty feet away. It would be faster to run for it
than to unfasten Olivia’s seat belt and carry her to and fro.
Jocelyn slipped her seat belt
off and got out, closing the door softly behind her. She sprinted up the steps
and snatched the bag from between the doors. As she turned back to her car, she
saw the figure, just a blur in her periphery. Then her Ford Explorer drove off
down Chew Avenue with Olivia in the back seat.
Jocelyn leapt off the steps and ran into the street.
“Olivia!” she screamed.
She had never run so fast, and
was only vaguely aware of the other cars whizzing past, beeping and swerving to
avoid her, expletives rolling out of the mouths of passing motorists. The
Explorer made the first right onto North 21st Street and Jocelyn
followed, arms and legs pumping, feet slapping the pavement, her heartbeat
thundering in her ears. She reached for her gun but quickly remembered she
didn’t have it. It was her day off.
“Dammit.”
She was losing ground as the Explorer turned right onto Conlyn and
out of her sight.
“Olivia!”
Hold Still
Title: Hold
Still
Author: Lisa
Regan
Genre: Mystery /
Suspense
After
saving her three-year-old daughter from a car-jacking, off-duty police
detective Jocelyn Rush ends up in the ER. The last person she expects to
run into is Anita Grant, former prostitute and an old acquaintance from
Jocelyn’s days on patrol. In spite of her obvious injuries—mutilated
hands and feet—Anita refuses to talk about what happened. Reluctantly, Jocelyn
backs off, and Anita's case goes to Philadelphia’s Special Victims Unit.
Before
long, Jocelyn is pulled into the SVU’s investigation. Anita is finally
ready to talk, but only to Jocelyn. Her story is harrowing, even to a seasoned
veteran like Jocelyn. Working with SVU, Jocelyn’s investigation unearths a
series of similar crimes going back four years. Three men are preying on
local prostitutes, viciously assaulting and mutilating them.
The
police apprehend two of the suspects, but the third eludes capture. As the hunt
for the most sadistic of the three intensifies, and his crimes escalate,
Jocelyn and her colleagues have precious few leads. Then a monster from
Jocelyn’s past resurfaces. She doesn’t want to be reminded of the
terrible secret that destroyed her family nearly twenty years earlier, but the
man offers her a lead that could crack Anita’s case.
To
solve it, Jocelyn must connect her past with her present—before a sadistic
attacker sets his sights on her.
Author Bio
Lisa Regan is a suspense novelist.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Master of Education Degree
from Bloomsburg University. She is a
member of Sisters In Crime. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and
daughter. Her debut novel, Finding Claire Fletcher won Best Heroine
and was runner up in Best Novel in the eFestival of Words Best of the
Independent eBook Awards for 2013.
Links
Author
Website: www.lisaregan.com
Amazon
Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Regan/e/B009YY091I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lisalregan
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