A review by kimabill
The Body in Question by Jill Ciment

3.0

I enjoyed this book while I was reading it and I read it very quickly, but when I finished, I was kind of disappointed with it. It was about the murder trial of a young woman accused of setting her baby brother on fire and the jurors who are making the decision on the case. Two of the jurors start up an affair while they are sequestered and the woman in the affair has feelings of guilt because at the same time she is having the affair, her much older husband is dealing with rapidly declining health. I guess my problem was that this felt like three separate and incomplete stories. I was really interested in the case on trial and what the twists and turns would be but that part of the story was never enough. The illicit affair was interesting and dramatic but then kind of became nothing. The marriage between the older man who was dying and his younger wife who was cheating on him but still loved him was interesting but not fleshed out well enough for me. The writer does a good job making each part of the story interesting, but overall, I wanted the book to be more about just one of the stories, or to feel like one of the stories was more complete.