The Judges Wife

*Shortlisted for a 2017 RoNA Award* With her whole life ahead of her, beautiful young Grace’s world changes forever when she’s married off to a much older judge. Soon, feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram—he’s charming, thoughtful, and kind, everything her husband is not. But this is 1950s Ireland, and when she falls pregnant, the potential scandal must be dealt with. As soon as she has given birth, Grace is sent to an asylum by the judge, while Vikram, told that Grace died in childbirth, returns to India heartbroken. Thirty years later, after the judge’s death, his estranged daughter Emma returns home to pack up his estate, where she finds Grace’s diaries and begins to piece together the life of the mother she never knew. Meanwhile, Vikram is planning a long-awaited return to Ireland with his much-loved niece Rosa—who has grown up hearing all about her uncle’s long-lost love—to stand, at last, at the grave of the woman he adores. When the judge’s will is finally read, revealing he has sent letters to Vikram and Emma, the deception spanning both decades and continents finally begins to unravel, exposing long-buried family secrets along the way and raising the question of if true love can last a lifetime.

The story of Bush Edwards continues My journey takes us back in time, to the early days of Las Vegas. Our story takes place in the late sixties when money and power ruled the city. The Judges Wife introduces me to her world. That journey brings me to the dark side of Vegas. The Judge was a powerful man. The secrets I've kept will now be told. I've been silent for over forty five years. I'm Bush Edwards and this is my story.The characters in this book are real. I've changed their names out of respect for their privacy

The judge's wife has an appetite for expensive things and men younger than her husband. Everybody in the town of Big Shanty knows it, except the judge, who she manipulates with ease to achieve all that she wants. Her cunning ways, however, lead to a violent murder that shocks the town, including Montgomery Mutz, the prosecutor who is eager to get a conviction before election day. The only person in his way is Nolan Getty, the Public Defender, who must find a way to expose her deceit and the prosecutor's corruption in order to win the case.

Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority countries.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Captain Amos Coop Cooper of Wichita, now retired from the Wichita Police Department, isnt surprised when he is asked to investigate a case; he is shocked, however, to learn he has been personally requested by Judge Elmo Wells. Coop and the judge never liked each other or got along, so why is Wells asking for him after so many years off the force? It turns out that Wells wife, Marilou, is missing, having boarded a plane in Wichita without arriving in Boston to meet her mother as planned. Coop sees this as an open-and-shut case: Marilou must have changed planes and arrived at another destination via a connecting flight. The only problem is that Marilous flight to Boston was nonstop. As Coop looks more closely at the disappearance, he discovers that there are plenty of people who might be angry at the judge, giving him numerous suspects but few leads. Whats more, secrets seem to surround Marilou. How did the judges wife disappear, and whos behind the caper that brought Coop out of retirement?