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The Hallows

Victor Methos
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  89. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2019 by Victor Methos

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

Published by Thomas & Mercer, Seattle

Amazon, the Amazon logo, and Thomas & Mercer are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc., or its affiliates.

ISBN-13: 9781542042741 (hardcover)

ISBN-10: 1542042747 (hardcover)

ISBN-13: 9781542042727 (paperback)

ISBN-10: 1542042720 (paperback)

Cover design by Christopher Lin

First edition

DEDICATION

To Ms. Whiting, my high school English teacher, who let me cut my other classes and lie down in the back of her classroom as long as I read a book while doing so, and was the first person to tell me they liked my writing. How seldom we recognize the people who set the sails of our lives.

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“Murder.”

I looked into the jury’s faces. Twelve men and women and two alternates, chosen at random from Miami-Dade County. My client sat at the defense table, dressed in a pinstripe suit and a Rolex watch. This was South Beach, after all, and the juries here needed to see wealth. From The Art of Jury Trial as War (a book I was in the process of writing), chapter 7: “In any jury trial, in any part of the country, the jury has to believe the defendant is one of their own.”

I swaggered over to the table where the lead detective on the case and two prosecutors sat. Their closing had been by the book, fact after fact after fact. The Art of Jury Trial as War, chapter 4: “Juries can’t tell an important fact from an irrelevant fact, so pick the best ‘facts’ you’ve got and run with them.”

In a murder case like this one, they had to see that the victim had it coming. That the victim had done so much wrong and was such a nasty person that it was only a matter of time before someone killed them, and it might as well have been my client.

Of course, that didn’t really apply when your client was innocent, which my guy miraculously was.

I winked at the detective.