Reviewed by: BigAl
Genre: Suspense
Approximate word count: 100-105,000 words
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Author:
Bestselling
author Rebecca Forster has had more than twenty books published in her career,
most legal thrillers.
For more,
visit her website.
Description:
“A
mysterious, unstable man disrupts a Senate hearing long enough to whisper five
words to Josie Bates that will send her from the icy winter of Washington D.C.
to the tropical warmth of Hawaii in search of Hannah. What she finds instead is
a long buried truth. . .a truth that will change her life forever if she stays
alive long enough to live it.”
Appraisal:
With each
new installment of Rebecca Forster’s “The Witness” series, I’m surprised at the
different directions she finds to take the story. At the end of Eyewitness (the previous book in the
series), we were left a bit of a cliffhanger. The main storyline came to a
conclusion, but protagonist Josie Bate’s ward, Hannah, also went missing.
Forgotten Witness has two main story threads that are
interwoven through the book. One follows Archer, Josie’s boyfriend/fiancé, as
he follows up on a set of clues in search of Hannah. Forster tells this part of
the story, keeping it always in the back of the reader’s mind (just like it is
always nagging at Josie), partially using a clever technique that I’ll let the
reader discover on their own.
The other
story thread involves Josie as she follows another path in search of Hannah.
She stumbles onto something completely unexpected which answers one of the
lingering questions many readers (and Josie) have had through the entire
series. However, it also generates many new questions which Josie attempts to
answer.
Something
new for this series that I especially enjoyed was the way it integrated real
world issues, some of them very current, into the story. The main story line
comes to a nice conclusion and, as always, also left me ready for more, with a
couple guesses as to where we’ll be going with Josie next. I’ll probably be
wrong once again.
FYI:
This book
is the sixth in a series and while I think it could be read as a standalone, an
understanding of the cumulative backstory of the main characters from the
earlier books adds a lot to the enjoyment of this installment. My advice would
be, if you haven’t read them all, do.
Format/Typo Issues:
Review is
based on an advance reader copy and I’m unable to judge the finished product in
this area.
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