The Drowning Girls

The Drowning Girls opens with Detective Josie Quinn responding to a call that is grim even by her standards: the body of a young woman has been pulled from a creek on the edge of Denton, and no one seems to know who she is. When a second girl is found alive nearby, barely clinging to life, the case becomes even more urgent and more unsettling. What gives the premise its real pull is the contrast between those two girls—one lost, one possibly savable—and the sense that Josie is chasing a predator who has been operating in darkness for longer than anyone realized. The novel has the fast, tense momentum of a procedural, but it also carries the series’ usual emotional weight, with fear, vulnerability, and buried history pressing in around every clue. It feels like a race not just to solve a murder, but to stop a pattern before it claims someone else.

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