Debut Novel · Legal Thriller

The Blind
Verdict

A principled prosecutor. A guilty verdict. And the one man who made sure it happened — from inside the jury box.

Character-driven fiction exploring truth, perception, justice,
and the choices that define us.

The Blind Verdict
A Novel
Jim Myers
Coming Soon · Querying 2026
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JM
About the Author

A Storyteller Shaped by
Decades of Observation

I came to fiction later than many writers — and I think that timing is the most important thing to know about me.

For most of my career, I worked in executive leadership: helping organizations grow, coaching teams, and studying the way people make decisions under pressure. Long before I began writing, I was fascinated by the same questions I now explore on the page. Why do intelligent people make poor choices? Why do good people compromise? Why do some individuals rise under pressure while others collapse?

Those questions led me here. To Cherokee County, Georgia. To a murdered young woman, a wrongly accused man, a principled prosecutor who does everything right — and a justice system that fails anyway.

I don’t think of myself as a legal thriller writer. I think of myself as a storyteller drawn to questions about human nature. The courtroom happens to be a powerful place to explore those questions — but the real story is always about the people inside it.

Recurring Themes
Appearance vs. Reality
The gap between public image and private truth — and what happens when they collide.
Truth vs. Perception
How narratives form, assumptions take hold, and perception becomes mistaken for truth.
Systems Under Pressure
What happens when institutions people trust are tested by ambition, fear, or human weakness.
Character Determines Destiny
Strengths become weaknesses. Flaws become catalysts. The people drive the story.
The Debut Novel

The Blind Verdict

The Blind Verdict
A Novel
Jim Myers

What if the man who engineered the guilty verdict was the one who committed the crime?

ADA Jenna Carter is principled, sharp, and determined to deliver justice for a young woman found strangled in her home. The evidence against her boyfriend is damning. The case seems airtight. But as the high-profile trial unfolds under mounting media pressure, something is quietly, methodically wrong with the jury.

One juror in particular — calm, articulate, always the voice of reason — is running a manipulation that no one in that courtroom can see. Because he was there the night Emily died. And he needs Michael Trent to go to prison for it.

The Blind Verdict is a legal thriller about what happens when justice becomes performance, truth competes with power, and the system itself becomes the weapon.

Genre Legal Thriller
Length ~90,000 Words
Status Querying 2026
Series Jenna Carter · Book One
What’s Next

Other Projects

Series · In Development
The Jenna Carter
Series

The Blind Verdict is the foundation for a larger series following ADA Jenna Carter as her journey continues to explore questions of justice, truth, institutional integrity, and moral courage. Each book deepens the character and the world she inhabits — a prosecutor who learns that playing by the rules is only the beginning.

Adaptation · Exploring
The Blind Verdict
Screenplay

The visual architecture of The Blind Verdict — its courtroom tension, its dual perspectives, its slow-burn reveal — translates naturally to the screen. A screenplay adaptation is currently being explored in parallel with the querying process, positioning the story across both publishing and film and television markets.

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Media & Readers

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