Hostile Witness — Rebecca Forster

When 16-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her step-grandfather, a prominent California Supreme Court justice, her distraught mother contacts her old college roommate, Josie Baylor-Bates, to take the case. Once a hotshot criminal defense attorney, Josie stepped off the fast track and doesn't particularly want to get back on. There's something about the troubled teenager, however, that draws Josie strongly to her. All of the evidence points to Hannah, but there are strange and complex dynamics at work, and Josie senses that something is terribly wrong. When the shocking truth is finally uncovered, it could save her client - or destroy them all.