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Het 13de jurylid (1994)

door John Lescroart

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML: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 enou… (meer)

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Dismas Hardy/David Freerman defend "difficult" wife caused of murdering her husband and son. (

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fwbl | Feb 7, 2023 |

I've now read several of his books recently, and it seems they have a pattern where things progress/regress to a seemingly hopeless situation, then some miracle comes along at the end to solve the problem, often in a pretty surprising way. But perhaps that's common with a lot of mysteries.

This was one of those stories where I began to think she should just be abandoned - she was so self-destructive and uncooperative, even dumb, that at times I thought she didn't deserve so much help. But that was the point, I think. She was driven to this state from her childhood, and acted the way she did because she felt the same way about herself. Everything was her fault, the men were always right, and she deserved to be punished. And the worst part was that these feelings frustrated people to the point where they felt like knocking some sense into her head, which a few seemed to succumb to doing. Fortunately, I was unable to do this, as she was protected by being inside a book. (

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MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 |

This is another Dismis Hardy story - the ex-policeman, kind of lawyer guy. It's long - in fact, I picked it up off the used bookshelf because it was fat and I needed a nice long read. This one fit the bill perfectly. Dismis is trying to decide what to do with his life. He's had good offers from real law firms but he can't bring himself to do it. So he rents space from the best, most odious defense lawyer in town. And while his landlord is tied up in court, Dismis gets the case that propels him through this book. Did Jennifer Witt kill her doctor husband and small son or not? A fine read. (

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susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |

A little long but good. (

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TromboneAl | May 4, 2018 |

Match found in the German National Library.

glsottawa | Apr 4, 2018 |

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Het 13de jurylid

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The 13th Juror

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The 13th Jury

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1994

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Dismas Hardy

Jennifer Witt

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Een vrouw staat terecht voor meervoudige moord; alles lijkt op haar schuld te wijzen. Haar lot ligt in handen van één persoon...het 13de jurylid.

We zouden toegeeflijker tegenover haar zijn wanneer we een vrouw berechten, als we wisten hoe moeilijk het is een vrouw te zijn

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De wispelturigheid van de vrouwen die ik liefheb wordt slechts geëvenaard door de enorme trouw van de vrouwen die mij liefhebben.

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To my brothers, Michael and Emmett

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Jennifer Witt keek nog eens onderzoekend naar de tafel.

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML: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 enou

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Advocaat Dismas Hardy neemt de verdediging op zich van Jennifer Witt, die beschuldigd wordt van moord op haar echtgenoot en op hun achtjarige zoon. Bovendien wordt ze ervan verdacht ook haar eerste echtgenoot te hebben vermoord, die negen jaar geleden ogenschijnlijk aan een overdosis drugs is overleden.

Terwijl Hardy de zaak aan het voorbereiden is komt hij erachter dat beide echtgenoten Jennifer hebben mishandeld. Maar Jennifer verbiedt hem deze informatie te gebruiken, aangezien die haar schuld aannemelijk zou maken. Zij houdt vol onschuldig te zijn.

Hardy is nu gedwongen andere bewijzen te vinden om de jury te overtuigen van Jennifers onschuld.Het proces verloopt moeizaam, nieuwe bewijzen worden aangedragen, andere verdwijnen, waarheden worden verdraaid...

Aan het eind van het proces lijkt Jennifers schuld vast te staan en ligt haar lot in de handen van één persoon... het 13de jurylid.

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