Final Witness

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

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!

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

Final Witness

This book proves it is possible to have an interesting Christian book. The story was spell binding. It had a way of drawing you into the plot.

Will get more by James Scott Bell

An author with a brain. No profanity. No sexual situations. Essentially, no cheap emotional tricks. And, get this: it was a great story! All the suspense was there. The rest of the world should learn something.

Other than that, there were a few times when I said, "Oh, please!" But for the most part, great book. I will continue to listen to all of his if they are this good.

Stunning audiobook, superb narration

Loved it, loved it, loved everything about it. Great storyline, great court scene, really defined characters. Will certainly be following this writer. The narrator is without question one of the best in the audiobook world, I have listened to several audiobooks narrated by ms Kaminsky and now I go looking for stories narrated by her. Love her style.

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?

religion added to mystery

Writing was professional, story was overall ok, but have no taste for religion as part of the story.

Good idea

The story kept me listening until the end..but I had no patience for the mealy mouthed heroin who was supposedly so well versed in law and could verbally stand up to a killer,but was the worst ever witness on the stand. Who says”maybe” and “I’m pretty sure” on the witness stand when a yes or no would negate further questions and still be honest? Simple answers. That was brutal to listen to and I was “praying”for it to be over by that point.