Losing Leah Holloway

by Lisa Regan

Overview

Five years ago, Claire Fletcher escaped her abductor. But some scars never fade, and surviving was just the beginning…

When Claire sees a car full of children careen into a river, she rushes to the rescue. But the driver, a mother named Leah Holloway, prefers to drown. For Claire and her ex, Detective Connor Parks, it doesn’t add up. What would motivate a woman with a beautiful family and a successful career to resort to such unspeakable extremes? What Connor finds out confirms Claire’s suspicions of something dreadful behind Holloway’s picture-perfect facade: a link between the terrified mother and a serial strangler targeting Sacramento soccer moms.

As Claire and Connor are drawn back together, their investigation leads them to unearth everything Holloway was hiding. What they find could be the only way to stop a killer from striking again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503942998
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	10/17/2017
Series:	A Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks Mystery , #2
Pages:	382
Sales rank:	956,919
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lisa Regan, the author of Finding Claire Fletcher, is a bestselling suspense novelist and a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in education from Bloomsburg University, works full-time as a paralegal, and lives with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia, where she writes books while waiting in line at the post office. Readers can learn more about her work at www.lisaregan.com.

Editorial Reviews

2019-04-29
Novelist Regan (Finding Claire Fletcher, 2017, etc.) is back with the second thriller in her series starring Claire Fletcher and Detective Connor Parks. Again we have a psychopath, and this one's a very busy serial killer.

Leah Holloway, a middle-class mom, drives her SUV full of kids through a guardrail and right into the American River. She wills herself to drown, though Claire, fishing nearby, manages to rescue the kids, Leah's three and her neighbor Rachel Irving's twins. This is against the backdrop of what the press is calling the Soccer Mom Strangler murders. While most of the Sacramento PD is on the Strangler case, Connor and his partner, Detective Jade Webb, are assigned to figure out why Leah Holloway—a woman with no obvious stressors—would off herself. Bit by bit, they uncover threatening ugliness (the Holloways' dog was poisoned, there was broken glass in the kids' sandbox, the car-seat straps were cut), DNA tests that don't make sense, and other disturbing or curious things. And then, through flashbacks, we learn of D.J. North, a hunky young creep, supposedly Rachel's nephew from back East, who may have been involved with Leah. Much more terrifying developments ensue. Regan's writing always impresses. For D.J., "reality became a vague, easily discarded, suggestion." And her insight into character runs from Leah's having several different drawers in her mind where bad stuff can be stowed (e.g., the "Did Not Happen" drawer) to the snarky depiction of Leah's hapless husband, Jim, who is so clueless and helpless that he doesn't even realize what a selfish jerk he is. And the final revelations are properly ingenious.

Layered characters perpetrate diabolical deeds under the sunny facade of a Mayberry-esque town in this clever thriller.

Kirkus Reviews