Except some torture and mutilation scenes, not terribly bad but the weaker stomached reader may find them a bit tough going. I think all crime lovers will like this one. The plot just sizzles from the onset in this great read, the story line is interesting and a bit different from the everyday MO of violent criminals we find in a lot of crime thriller novels. This is the ultimate game of hunt and destroy.

Something evil is on the streets, picking off prostitutes in the most clever of ways, torturing them, playing with them, raping 's the thing of nightmares, trust me. When the violence hits closer to home, Jocelyn knows she must do whatever it takes to stop the sadistic attacker-even if it means confronting a terrible secret from her painful past. With the help of her partner and Philadelphia’s Special Victims Unit, Jocelyn discovers that Anita isn’t the first victim of these attacks and it looks like she won’t be the last.

After saving her three-year-old daughter from a carjacking, she ends up in the emergency room-and discovers that Anita, a former prostitute and acquaintance from her old days on the beat, has been hideously mutilated in a brutal assault. With it's ability to hold my interest from the first word to the last, and all the words in-between this was a pleasant surprise from an author I have not read before.Īfter years as a patrol cop, detective Jocelyn Rush is almost immune to the depravity that stalks the meaner streets of Philadelphia…almost. I really enjoyed every minute of reading this very well written novel.

Hold Still crackles with tension and a brilliant plot.

Hold Still by Lisa Regan