Genre: Thriller
Description:
“It's two in the morning and an aging cargo ship lies off the Port of
Los Angeles. Deep in the bowels of the vessel, an important man is dead and the
woman who killed him is mortally wounded. On shore another man staggers out of
the sea determined to save the woman before she dies or the ship sails.
Exhausted and terrified, he goes to the only person he trusts to help, Josie
Bates. He brings with him a history she can't ignore, a problem that seems
insurmountable, and a plea she can't refuse. But Josie is up against
international law, maritime justice, a Port Authority that doesn't want
anything to get in the way of profit, the U.S. Coast Guard who dances to the
tune of politics and a captain who swears the people in question were never on
his ship. With the clock ticking, Josie becomes ever more desperate to prove
the woman is real and get her safely ashore. What Josie doesn't know is that
the sands of time that are running out may be her own.”
Author:
USA Today best-selling author Rebecca
Forster’s twenty-something books mostly fit within the broad mystery genre,
some in the legal thriller subgenre and others harder to classify. Forster is a
two-time winner in the Books and Pals Readers’ Choice Awards, with Before
Her Eyes topping the mystery category in 2013 and Eyewitness (book 5
of the Witness Series) getting the nod from our readers in 2014.
For more, visit Forster’s website.
Appraisal:
Fans of Rebecca Forster’s Witness series who feel like they’ve been
left hanging for more than five years should be primed to jump all over this
book. For those unfamiliar with the series, this can be read as a stand alone
as the author includes enough back story to understand the most important parts
of the past as they pertain to this latest installment.
In Dark Witness, the last installment of the Witness series, we
left two of the main characters, Hannah Sheridan and Billy Zuni, in a strange
place. Billy thought Hannah was dead while Hannah knew (or at least had
convinced herself she knew) that Billy was alive, in spite of evidence that he
wasn’t, but she would have had no idea how to find him if she was right. He
could be almost anywhere in the world.
Several years later we pick up their
stories again. Here they’ll discover the other again, have their current worlds
shaken up in the process, and have a current crisis to survive before they’ll
have a chance to figure out where to go from there. This story has a lot of
action, is full of unpredictability, and has a lot happen over a period of only
three days. As with the rest of the series, it’s also a great read that kept me
engaged and the pages turning.
FYI:
One minor use of adult language.
This is the eighth book in a series. Although there is a lot of
history between the main characters that will improve the understanding and
enjoyment in subtle ways for those who have read past books, this book can
still be read as a stand alone.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Read an advance reader copy prior to final proofreading and can’t
judge the final product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 90-95,000 words
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