Final Witness

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

A cold-blooded killer is destroying all who oppose him. Will there be a final witness to the truth?

Young, idealistic law clerk Rachel Ybarra has just been handed a career-making opportunity - helping in the prosecution of an infamous leader of the Russian Mafia. But when the star witness turns up dead, Rachel discovers the case is not merely a battle for the truth - it's a battle for her life.

©2014 James Scott Bell (P)2016 Tantor

Enjoyable!!

I enjoyed this book, I’m a fan of legal thriller s and this one is pretty good, perfect? No but we’ll worth the listen

Excellent trial mystery

I listen to almost every trial story that comes along. I'm not sure how I missed this one but am I glad I finally listened to it. Excellent plot. Well paced, great characters. Believable. If you like this type of story, you will love this!

thoroughly enjoyable

Enjoyed this legal thriller. Story was excellent and reader was top-notch. Good, clean story. Wouldn't mind other books with the same characters.

Wow!

This story was a real cliffhanger. Mystery is not my usual kind of story but I enjoy a good mystery once in a while. This book was fantastic.

Not bad I liked the characters

The story was entertaining but a little predictable. The characters were likeable and the narration was great. The young lady reading the book saved the day!

You need to buy this book

One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. There were areas however where they could have tightened the story up a bit and not let the FBI look like bumbling idiots. Didn’t they wonder about the autopsy. Also the US attorneys office. Didn’t they want to know how the lawyer knew so much about what was said between the final witness and the paralegal. Come on, the only ones in the room were FBI. Story and subject matter were great.

A legal thriller which is not loaded with profanity and other unnecessary”fillers”

I am so impressed with both the writing herein and the story within the pages of this novel. Not only is this one of the better legal thrillers that I have read, but it is well performed in addition. I highly recommend it

God themed legal drama

story was ok but wasn’t expecting the religious preaching throughout. Doesn’t add to the story. A very American bible bashing thread

Always the best

I could not put this book down. In fact, I stop reading another book to read this book because James Scott Bell always non stop suspense.

A good book spoilt by poor choices

This guy can write. He has creative and interesting turns of phrases, has an idea of how to reveal details for dramatic effect and has an appreciation for plot development.

I hated the religious angle. I think this severely weakened the book. I didn’t like that the religious angle wasn’t intellectually sophisticated or nuanced in any way. The author, seemingly a Christian apologist, had a point to make about the supremacy of religious beliefs and, as a result, everyone except the committed Christians are painted as villains, evil, and degenerates. Surely, there are other ways to position the religious struggle than in this simplistic fashion!

The protagonist serves no purpose. She fumbled the ball at every turn - often because of her blind, unsophisticated and immature beliefs in the spiritual world. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind that she’s a Christian, but I hated that her belief system is so simplistic and immature. There was absolutely no appreciation for real world imperatives in her reasoning. The character did a disservice to Christians, I think.

Also, I don’t get the sense she’s a good lawyer. Certainly not a sly or smart one. She works hard and will apparently out-read and out-research you. But her ability to develop novel solutions or to reason through difficult situation is pretty under developed.

Finally, for a moralist, the author left so many points of evil to flourish and to go unpunished by the end of the book. Certainly, the supporting villain (the lawyer for the defense) needed some comeuppance for her part in aiding and abetting criminal activities. A loss is one thing and is veritably a professional setback for her, but what about justice?

At the end, I could never be sure why the protagonist was presented as such when she played such a trivial role in the ultimate success of good over evil?