I don't know how Rebecca Forster does it. She annoys me with her writing style, yet manages to suck me in anyway. She uses too many metaphors and there are way too many courtroom dramatics; her courtroom scenes read like a bad Lifetime movie. That being said, she tells a good story. This was a suspenseful story about who is to blame for a disabled boy falling off a ride at an amusement park. What starts as a possible accident turns into investigations of murder. While I kind of suspected the ending about half way through, it was still a page turner. I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to the next one in the series! Now two books into the series, I have become a fan of Rebecca Forster and Josie Bates. Forster continues in Silent Witness to develop the characters from Hostile Witness (Josie, Archer, Hannah) while adding Jude Getts, who I suspect from the attention given him will not be forgotten in future stories.Forster has total command of her appropriately complicated plot. There is tension, surprise, disappointment, the opportunity to root, and the opportunity to hate. No character is perfectly good or evil. A series of powerful and worthy motivations gone wrong give pause for reflection if you can keep yourself from plowing ahead as fast as possible into the unfolding plot.A legal thriller needs to allow the reader to follow the investigative leads, to see patterns emerge from tiny threads of information, to feel the frustration when the answers don't immediately coalesce. Silent Witness has all of that, and also goes beyond the genre to explore the life choices and resulting consequences of both female and male characters. None of these life choices is forever. I suspect Forster has the talent and the curiosity to take her characters much further along their paths without becoming repetitive, the downfall of many series. The next book awaits.
What do You think about Silent Witness (2012)?
not as good a read as Hostile Witness, but well worth it.
—Jaiey
Pretty good, but I DID figure it out before the end.
—alevega
