Juror Number Eleven
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Publisher Description
A Mairead O'Clare Novel from the author of Uncommon Justice and A Stain Upon the Robe
The legal team of Mairead O’Clare and Sheldon Gold has just wrapped their successful defense of Gold’s childhood friend, Big Ben Friedman. The charge is murder. Now it’s the prosecution’s turn to move in for the kill. They have a charge of their own—jury tampering. And all bets are on Juror Number Eleven—especially after her lifeless body is discovered in her home strung up by her neck. Her last desperate phone call was to Mairead. That looks bad. The prime suspect, Big Ben, has disappeared. That looks worse.
First, they have to bring their client in on a new murder charge. Then they have to do the impossible—they have to defend him.
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No sooner are criminal defense aces Sheldon Gold and Mairead O'Clare successful at getting Boston gangster Big Ben Friedman acquitted of murder than the eponymous Juror Number Eleven is found dead in her home just after she places an urgent call for help to O'Clare. Terry Devane's sophomore legal thriller brings back O'Clare and Gold and their support staff not to mention a host of colorful witnesses and suspects, from an elderly doctor who looks like Yoda and has a penchant for 20th-century Russian composers to a once-blind hardware store owner who miraculously regained his sight for another round of sleuthing, courtroom drama, rapid-fire dialogue and wry humor. (Putnam, 320p )