You Be the Judge

You Be the Judge is the story of a famous mystery writer Maura Howard-Craig whose first husband a rich publishing mogul has suspiciously died in a yachting accident. She has already been tried for murder for this but got off. The book opens with her being tried for another murder: her second adoring much younger husband.Two of the selected jurors are the witty young indomitable women Burke and Jackie who became instant friends during the trials voir dire. The defendants lawyer Eugene is handsome and upright and Burke immediately falls in love with him. Sadly he happens to be in love with his client Ms. Howard-Craig the defendant. The trial goes on did she or didnt she and we learn the truth of the murder and who the murderer was (or at least we think we do). It seems whoever did it looked exactly like Ms. Howard-Craig and was driving her car. It is Jackie and Burke who solve the case and Burke tries to use the information to entice Eugene to fall for her. But the path of true love and murder as we know are never clear.