Juror No. 3

Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar – and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony.

The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned home after a career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that will stick.

Ruby never belonged to the country-club set, but once she nearly married into it. As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé, Lee Greene, shows up on her doorstep – a Southern gentleman in need of a saviour.

As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women impaneled on the jury. They may be hiding the biggest secret of all.

Ruby Bozarth, un nou-venit la Rosedale, Mississippi, este, de asemenea, proaspat in barul din Mississippi - si in dosarul judecatorului de circuit Baylor, care il foloseste pe Ruby ca avocat al apararii intr-o crima acuzata rasial. Crima unei femei dintr-una dintre cele mai vechi familii din oras are crusta superioara a lui Rosedale care urla dupa sange, iar procurorul se bazeaza pe lipsa de experienta a lui Ruby pentru a-l ajuta sa dea o condamnare rapida.