Returning to Hermosa Beach after three years, Billy Zuni shows up on Josie’s doorstop with an exceptional story: a murder has occurred on a ship unloading at the Port of Los Angeles and there’s an injured girl who needs to be rescued.  When the Port Authority and the LAPD don’t take the story seriously, Billy looks for other ways to get back to that ship and rescue his friend.

In 2013, I came across a free eBook in the Kindle store, the first entry in Rebecca Forster’s Josie Bates series.  At some point, I got a good deal on the full series and have been slowly working through them since 2021.  Lost Witness, the eighth entry in the series, is the final one in my collection.  At some point, exciting local law cases gave way to over-the-top national and international incidents that just so happened to involve our local heroes.  This was probably my least favorite outing, with Josie and Archer pushed mostly to the side in favor of Billy and his new boat friends.  There is one more novel in the series, released after my bulk collection was released, but I don’t know that I’ll bother at this point, unless I can find it at the library.