In The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator,
undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of
murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well
as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from
an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy
learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically
abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that
presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy
is now driven to seek an alternative truth a jury can
believe. As the trial progresses, the complex truth itself
begins to change, to bend, to fade in and out of focus as
the clock keeps ticking on Jennifer's fate, until there
seems only one person left to convince, and she is "the
13th juror" - the judge. The 13th Juror is a stunning and
suspenseful novel of moral ambiguity, of good intentions,
bad judgements and the tortuous path to ultimate justice.
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