Review: Great Addition to Series!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2013
I am ashamed to say, I have read and reviewed a number of Ms. Foster's books, off the top of my head Beyond Malice and Before Her Eyes come to mind. So where the heck was I, not having read the Witness Series? After all, this is book #5! Now I have mentioned long ago about my A.D.D. of having to read every book in order, but I must admit, this author did a wonderful job of not making me feel that way, filling in the cracks just keeping me in the loop, yet, having me want to read the first four. Her writing is such an exception to the norm.The prologue of the story, enticed me. A young man, Yilli on patrol, protecting his country in Albania. The description and syntax the author writes, is in peasant type simple English, even the words have a hint of an accent. What happens in this beginning prologue describes an accidental death, and the horror that follows a family from generation to generation. We view a time frame starting in the 1960's and during the story the reader is always brought back to the past that is slowly merging with the present. Just intriguing.I meet Josie Bates with a stranger at her door. It is present time, Hermosa Beach California. She is awoken by someone banging at her front door during a raging thunder storm. The stranger is begging her to help a boy, Billy Zuni who is drowning. She arrives with Hannah, as he is being pulled out of the water. Hannah goes with her friend Billy in the ambulance to the hospital and Josie changes and drives over to Rosa Zuni's house to give her a piece of her mind for not taking care of her son.Josie gets to the Zuni home to find a bloodbath, A man lies on the couch dead, shot in the chest. As she stumbles further she finds another body face down, a male, all dressed in drag. Going up the stairs she finds Rosa Zuni near death, her throat slashed and covered in blood. Josie being the lawyer that she is, skips into legal mode. She heads for the hospital to Billy, hoping he will not be charged with this carnage and to possibly solve this mystery.Josie is about to be married to Archer, a sometime P.I. retired police officer. There is also Hannah, who Josie is guardian for, a typical teenager in many ways, always seeing the world in black and white....no shades of grey. Being a newbie into this world, I found her relationship with Josie incredibly true to life, and Josie's relationship with Archer simply loving. So I have to tell you, you don't need to read the first four to understand this story, but the author has made it so for me that I MUST read the others. I have certainly want to read about Hannah and Archer and Josie and see more of how they are and who they are and how they got there.Eyewitness gives the reader two stories, America in real time and lives of those past family members trying to deal with life in a backward country, with backward and uncaring governments and dealing with a Blood Feud that will destroy many lives.As I said Ms Forster is no stranger to me, her writing is superb, her thrillers are heavenly. She starts us on the yellow brick road and doesn't let us deviate in our path as she so skillfully works her magic. We are always amazed that through all this we possibly may solve a mystery, possibly good wins over evil, and are always better for the read. Eyewitness is hard, dangerous, and skillfully written. A Do Not Miss.Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team