A prominent judge is murdered, a sixteen year-old girl is accused and the girl's mother turns to Josie Bates for help. Brilliant, fearless and flawed, Josie left the fast track of high profile criminal defense years ago, but Hannah Sheraton intrigues her. When the girl is charged as an adult, Josie cannot turn her back. But the deeper Josie digs the more she realizes that politics, the law and family relationships have created a combustible and dangerous situation. When the horrible truth is finally uncovered it could either save Hannah Sheraton or destroy them both.

Hostile Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

Literature & Fiction

Forster, Rebecca

Literary

Silent C Press

Josie Bates has a full plate caring for a troubled teen, but it's about to get fuller when her ex-cop lover, Archer, is accused of murdering his disabled stepson - a son Josie never knew he had.When Timothy Wren died at California's oldest amusement park it appeared to be a tragic accident. But now Timothy's biological father and the district attorney are out for blood. Is this a criminal action with merit, a vendetta, or a shakedown? For Josie the stakes are personal. Racing against time to prove someone is framing Archer, her faith in him is tested by his honesty regarding his feelings about his stepson. Finally, she finds the truth lies not in Archer's words but with a long-forgotten silent witness.

Silent Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Grace McCreary swears she tried to stop her sister-in-law from jumping from her penthouse balcony but the police have a different take on the situation. They arrest Grace for murder which puts her brother, Senatorial candidate Matthew McCreary, in a spotlight he doesn't relish. Nor is he thrilled when Grace seeks out his former lover, Josie Baylor-Bates, to act as her defense attorney.Josie, who has sworn off rich clients, agrees to defend Grace but even she isn't sure why. She swears she believes in the woman innocence but in her heart she wants to prove that Matthew made a mistake letting her go.Stepping back into the world of privilege and power, forced to face her feelings for a man she once loved, Josie is determined to win this case - even if she looses everything she holds dear.

Privileged Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

It’s two in the morning when Josie Bates’ ward, sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton, slips into Archer’s Hermosa Beach apartment to see if Josie sleeps in his bed. But Josie isn’t there. In fact, Josie isn’t anywhere. When her Jeep is found abandoned in a parking lot near the Redondo pier, the only clue to her whereabouts leads Archer to Daniel Young, an expert witness for the prosecution in the case that made Josie’s reputation as a defense attorney ten years earlier. Fighting to keep Hannah from being taken into custody by child protective services, racing against a clock ticking off the minutes of Josie’s life, Archer reluctantly partners with Daniel Young and a rogue Hermosa Beach detective, Liz Driscoll, to race down a winding road of intrigue. From the Hollywood Hills to the glitzy evangelical enclave of Orange County; the seedy side of Los Angeles to the pristine and remote California mountains, Archer bores into the past. What he finds is that the woman he loves was once a ruthless and hated defense attorney, that the system he believes in has released a double murderer, and that there is more than one person who would be happy if Josie Bates was never seen again.

Expert Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

A mountain grocer is executed and a fading model is missing. Sheriff Dove Connelly, a native American and a man of unique sensibilities, embarks on an investigation that drags him into a twilight world where nothing is at it seems, life and death hang in a delicate balance and his very thoughts could tip the scales of life and death.

Before Her Eyes: Psychological Thriller

Mystery

New Mexico attorney Tara Linley’s belief in the power and fairness of the law is shaken when she takes on her best friend’s lover as a client. After reluctantly agreeing to represent him, Tara discovers the shocking crime he has committed. Bound by the attorney-client privilege, caught in a web of escalating circumstances that threaten not only her professional reputation but her life, Tara soon finds herself at the mercy of her unstable client…a man who is growing more dangerous every day.

Keeping Counsel

In the dead of night, Josie Bates is ripped from sleep by the sounds of an epic storm raging over Hermosa Beach and a man beating on her door begging her to help Billy Zuni who is drowning in the raging sea. She arrives at the shore just in time to see the teenager pulled from the water, battered and near death. Ready to kill Billy’s selfish, neglectful mother, Josie rushes to the Zuni house only to find someone has beaten her to it. Two men lie dead downstairs and Billy’s mother clings to life on the floor above. Spurred on by Hannah’s fear that Billy will be framed for the murders, Josie takes up his defense. But Billy is evasive, physical evidence points to his guilt, and the county counsel wants him committed to the state. With the clock ticking, Archer and Josie set out to find the mysterious man who can vouch for Billy’s whereabouts at the time of the murders. What they find instead is a web of intrigue and deceit that stretches half way around the world and an eyewitness who is blinded by a justice Josie cannot understand

Eyewitness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

Unlike her much younger sister, Nora, attorney Amanda Cross has worked hard for everything she has - which isn't much. But the tables turn one day when the evidence in the grisly murder of a partner's wife at a prestigious law firm points to Nora. Abandoned by the legal community, Nora reluctantly turns to her sister for help. Armed with a tenacious spirit, no leads, no experience in defending a murder charge, Amanda has to free her sister from what the D.A. claims is an open-and shut case. With the help of an handsome assistant-for-hire with a chip on his shoulder, this outgunned lawyer peels away the protective layers surrounding some very upright types to reveal intentions that seem to be beyond reproach but are, in fact, beyond malice.

Beyond Malice

Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Eastern European crime, Josie Bates testifies passionately about the brutal Albanian blood feud that has sent Hannah into hiding with Billy Zuni and Archer on a quest to find them. While Senator Patriota, the man sure to be the next president of the United States, promises his patronage Josie isn’t convinced he was even listening – but someone was. Charging through the crush of bodies, evading security, a frantic man launches himself at Josie. Toppling her to the ground, he pushes something into her hands, puts his lips against her ear and whispers five words that will send her from the icy winter of Washington, D.C. to the tropical warmth of Hawaii in search of Hannah. What Josie finds is a horrific, long buried truth that will change her life forever - if she stays alive long enough to live it.

Forgotten Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

Forster, Ms. Rebecca A.

As the edge of winter slices through fall, Josie Bates testifies in Washington D.C. about the Albanian blood feud that sent Hannah Sheraton and Billy Zuni fleeing for their lives, and Archer reluctantly abandons a trail that has gone cold in his search for the teenagers.Determined to stay one step ahead of the authorities who want Billy back and a blood feud that will only be satisfied when he is dead, Hannah and Billy head north. There they will hunker down in the darkest corner of earth they can find and wait for the danger to pass.Though the journey is treacherous, they finally find themselves isolated, safe, and as far from Hermosa Beach as they can get. But Hannah's relief is short lived. When the perpetual winter dark turns to inky black, they realize they've taken refuge in hell. Now the fight in front of her and Billy is not only for their lives, but their very souls.

Dark Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (The Witness Series)

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