Eleanor Maddox
retired judge
Exact; jurors decide on evidence
Twelve
Twelve strangers must understand three years of accounts and a key witness whose memory may not hold.
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Civic life & public services Ethics & integrity Hard choices City life Tense Reflective
The premise
Twelve strangers must understand three years of accounts and a key witness whose memory may not hold. Liam learns how trials work from the jury box, and how hard it is to be fair when the room is divided.
The protagonist
Liam Lemaire-Fox — Juror on a complex fraud trial
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Victor Odukoya
forensic accountant
Methodical; follow the money
Dr Pia Lindgren
jury-decision psychologist
Insightful; groups reason differently
How the story moves
Six weeks of trial to verdict; absorbs the witness perspective from the former Witness concept.
What readers take away
- Jury duty and its rules
- Burden and standard of proof
- Understanding financial evidence
- Witness testimony and memory
- Judicial directions
- How deliberation works
- What jurors must not do
- Majority verdicts
- Understand hearsay and character evidence basics
- Take useful notes as a juror
- Recognise cognitive biases in deliberation
- Know juror support services
The books
- 1Sworn Planned
- 2The prosecution Planned
- 3The witness Planned
- 4Deliberation Planned
- 5Verdict Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.