Eyewitness – Rebecca Forster

When a brutal attack in Hermosa Beach leaves two dead and a young woman on life support, a local kid, and friend of Hannah, finds himself the prime suspect.  While Josie tries to work through the courts to keep him safe, Hannah keeps trying to take matters into her own hands and runs into issues with Josie, the school district, and the police.  Meanwhile, a tie to the local Albanian community becomes more involved than anyone could have considered.

Eyewitness, the fifth entry of Rebecca Forster’s Josie Bates saga, takes things in a new direction, upping the stakes for the characters which will ultimately move them out of their community and on to a bigger stage.  Adding international politics is an odd choice, though one apparently made due to the author’s own experiences with Albania, so we will eventually see where it goes.