The 13th Juror: A Novel

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Island Books, 1995 - Fiction - 544 pages
He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt. The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty. Jennifer insisted that she had not killed her abusive husband -- and she could never have killed her own son. Dismas Hardy believed her. But Hardy was only part of the defense team, and the only lawyer who continued to believe her...even as her story was torn to pieces, even as her lies came out, even as she was found guilty of murder. Now there's only one thing Jennifer can do to save her life...and she refuses to do it. So Hardy must do it for her. And in a shocking case of violence, betrayal, and lies, his only weapon is the truth... "The 13th Juror...When innocence is not enough.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
19
Section 4
29
Section 5
37
Section 6
59
Section 7
73
Section 8
79
Section 16
219
Section 17
229
Section 18
235
Section 19
263
Section 20
275
Section 21
287
Section 22
295
Section 23
377

Section 9
105
Section 10
123
Section 11
129
Section 12
139
Section 13
173
Section 14
183
Section 15
211
Section 24
401
Section 25
413
Section 26
437
Section 27
463
Section 28
487
Section 29
539
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About the author (1995)

John Lescroart was born in Houston, Texas on January 14, 1948. He started writing as a student at the University of California-Berkeley, where he majored in English. Following college and a job with a telephone company, he traveled around Europe, singing folk and country-rock music. He won the 1978 Joseph Henry Jackson best novel award for under-35 California writers with the autobiographical novel Sunburn. While helping his wife raise their two children and working in legal, bartending, musician, and social service positions, he still found the time to write numerous novels. His novels include the Dismas Hardy Series, Son of Holmes, Rasputin's Revenge, A Certain Justice, Guilt, The Hunt Club, The Suspect, Sunburn, Treasure Hunt, Damage, and The Hunter. He made The New York Times Best Seller List iwith his title's The Ophelia Cut,The Keeper, The Fall, and The Rule of Law.

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