"The Witness" by Nora Roberts

As most people already know it, Nora Roberts is one of the most famous writers living in the United States today, being the author of various masterpieces such as Chasing Fire, Black Hill, and The Search. Occasionally, she also writes under her pen name J. D. Robb and in total has made over 200 publications, with more than 400 million copies having been sold worldwide.

In her latest novel, The Witness Nora Roberts tells the story of a young woman named Elizabeth who has to live with a very strict and controlling mother. As any rebellious teenager would, Elizabeth rebelled herself one night and went out on an adventure into the seedy underbelly of the city.

As she was drinking in a nightclub, she encountered a man with a very seductive Russian accent and he invited her to a house located on Lake Shore Drive. What ensued then would mark Elizabeth’s life forever. 

Around twelve years later, a woman only known as Abigail Lowery lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a town in Ozarks. Being a security system designer, Abigail spends much of her time and resources to reinforce her own security, which amongst other things features a ferocious guard dog and a true arsenal of guns. 

The Witness by Nora Roberts (Book cover)
While Abigail does her best not to bother the world around her and keep to herself, this only serves to make the local sheriff more and more curious about what it is she has to hide. Suspecting that she is in danger and needs protection, the sheriff does his best to solve this mystery and finally put an old story to rest.

Just like most of Nora Robert’s other works, The Witness contains an assortment of interesting characters, each with their own idiosyncrasies and unique contributions to the storyline. The plot progresses at a relatively fast pace and is not too complicated, making this book a very entertaining thriller which will keep your eyes glued to the pages until the very last twist in the end.

Nora Roberts (Author)

Nora Roberts


Personal site

Nora Roberts is an American author who has more than 200 romance novels under her name, and is known to use the pen names J. D. Robb, Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.

She was the first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame, and has seen prizes awarded to her as if they rained from the sky, having a total of over 25 in the form of Quill, RITA and Gold Medallion awards. Some of her better-known works include Night Shift, Born in Ice, and Angels Fall.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

“The Locked Door” by Freida McFadden – Roots of a Lost Innocence

Image
  Freida McFadden has been quietly writing some exciting and original thrillers in her spare time from being a practicing physician, and The Locked Door is one of her latest offering in the genre.  It tells the story of Nora, a surgeon and daughter of a serial killer now in jail, who sees her life assaulted from the dark as someone begins to recreate her father's work with the exact same signature.
Read more

“The Lost Colony” by A.G. Riddle – A New Home Among the Stars

Image
A.G. Riddle's Long Winter Trilogy Series is one many of us will remember for the amazing story it brings of humanity's last stand against an overwhelming enemy in times of hopelessness. In The Lost Colony , the third book in the series, we follow James and Emma on their own respective struggles as humanity tries to settle itself on a new planet with an unseen danger none could have foreseen.
Read more

“Winter World” by A.G. Riddle – Ice Age from the Void

Image
A.G. Riddle is a true literary explorer seeking to push humanity to its limits and beyond, setting them on a desperate collision course with something beyond its understanding in Winter World . With a sudden ice age dawning on humanity entire swathes of land become uninhabitable and people begin dropping like flies, with anarchy reigning supreme. Looking to the stars for a miraculous solution, the remnants of humanity find a massive mysterious object floating near Mars ...whatever it is, our civilization's hopes of survival rest entirely in its hands.
Read more

“The Girl on the Stairs” by Barry Ernest – The Small Thorn you Can’t Ignore

Image
Girl on the Stairs , by Barry Ernest and with a foreword written by David Lifton, is an exploration of one specific aspect of the JFK assassination. More precisely, it looks into what a little girl by the name of Victoria Adams saw on that day while standing in the staircase of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald was supposedly making his escape.  Actually, it is more about what she didn’t see than what she did see. Victoria was on the staircase Oswald supposedly used, at the exact same time he supposedly used it. If he were to be there, even the little girl she was, Victoria would have noticed a nervous man quickly running down the stairs. However, she says that on that day, she was alone there, with nobody to be found, especially Oswald.
Read more

“Three Comrades” by Erich Maria Remarque – The Other Side of the Barricade

Image
The two World Wars have been documented, discussed and depicted from virtually every perspective imaginable, ranging from small children caught in a crossfire all the way the leaders of each country. However, it seems that here is a startlingly small amount of attention dedicated to the small hiatus period between the two wars, a time during which many changes came to pass in Germany in a very short amount of time.
Read more