Hostile Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller Free Audiobook Download by Rebecca Forster

Josie Bates, a forensic anthropologist, returns to the scene of her childhood home where she was abducted for the first time. She finds the cellar door unlocked and is shocked to see that her father is still alive. He tells her that he wants to make amends with his daughter by giving her what he has found in the cellar - a human skeleton with a bullet hole through its head. Josie must use all of her skills as a forensic anthropologist to find out who killed this man and why.

Josie Bates has a secret. She tells her husband nothing. She tells her best friend nothing. And she's keeping a lot of other secrets, too - including the one that could get her in serious trouble with the law, or worse.

Josie Bates is a forensic pathologist who has had her share of challenges in life, but when she gets the call telling her that her daughter has been abducted from a Walmart store, she quickly realizes that this is going to be anything but an ordinary case. As soon as Josie and her husband arrive at the scene, all hell breaks loose; and soon enough, Josie's own safety becomes in jeopardy.

"If you want to be a successful detective," says Josie, "you have to know how to get inside the head of your killer." Josie Bates is just getting her feet wet when she runs across a killer who's focused on her and her only ally is a sociopath.

Josie Bates has been an LAPD detective for some time now. She's also a single mother, a rare bird in the LAPD. Her latest case involves a serial killer who targets women that she's had extensive relationships with and loved deeply. Josie must work her way through more than 100 interviews of witnesses to the crime to identify and prosecute the culprit, but one witness refuses to talk about their relationship with the victim. It becomes clear that this is going to be a long and difficult process, but Josie is determined to get justice for another woman in her care without any help from other agencies or outside forces.-

Josie Bates is a detective in the San Francisco homicide division. After being assigned to a murder case that initially looked like an open and shut case, Josie soon realizes there's more going on than meets the eye.