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.
Author
Terry Devane
Terry Devane is the penname of award-winning author Jeremiah Healy. Healy, a former Sheriff’s Officer and Military Police Lieutenant, is a graduate of Rutgers College and the Harvard Law School. Healy is also the creator of the John Francis Cuddy private-investigator series and (under the pseudonym “Terry Devane”) the Mairead O’Clare legal-thriller series, both set primarily in Boston. Healy has written 18 novels and over 60 short stories, 16 of which have won or been nominated for the Shamus Award. He served as the President of the International Association of Crime Writers (“IACW”) from 2000-2004, and he was the International Guest of Honour at the 34th World Mystery Convention in Toronto during October, 2004. Three years ago, Healy concluded his term as a member of the Mystery Writers of America’s National Board of Directors.
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