Laurie Moore blew away critics and fans alike with her Cezanne Martin mystery series. Now, the irrepressible Texas detective is back in JURY RIGGED, the follow-up to her acclaimed police procedurals THE LADY GODIVA MURDER and THE WILD ORCHID SOCIETY, and The Dallas Morning News wonders why Laurie Moore's mysteries haven't hit the big screen.

A month after solving two high-profile murders, Cezanne takes a leave of absence from the Fort Worth Police Department to get her law office up and running. But bad things happen in threes. After Cezanne gets an engagement ring, her fiancé disappears. The same night she learns her wayward father died, she barely escapes a grisly death at the hands of escaped murderess Darlene Driskoll. Having left no will, Cezanne's father's estate is up for grabs and long-lost relatives are coming out of the woodwork to claim a share of the inheritance: the missing brother no one's seen or heard from in twenty years may be a fraud; a greedy widow nobody knew existed is scheming to eliminate heirs; and a squatter who insists she's Cezanne's Aunt Velda has moved into the deceased's stately home and refuses to leave. Then Deuteronomy Devilrow, a Voodoo-practicing adolescent, shows up as Cezanne's deadbeat client base falls apart.

In a struggle to keep her law practice afloat, Cezanne reluctantly takes an appeal case on Erick Rackley, a former FWPD officer convicted of murdering his wife, a prominent attorney whose friends and family hope Rackley rots in prison. When it appears the convicted killer will get a re-trial based on newly discovered evidence, Cezanne and others close to the case become death targets in this clever and captivating tale of charlatans, corruption, deception and murder.