This is the most novel by the writer Jill Ciment, who I read and reviewed earlier this summer for her novel Act of God. This novel is about a jury for a murder trial, but focuses instead of on the trial and its complications with an affair between woman married to a much older, famous photographer, and an anatomy professor who meet on the jury, share a spark, and begin their affair shielded by the kind of weird anonymity that jury duty brings. The opening […]
The potential jury, seven of them including the alternate, wait in the hall while the lawyers horse-trade.
The Body in Question by Jill Ciment
