Death Judge

Chelsea has been in love with her step-brother Grant almost since the day that she and her mother moved into his and his dad, Judge’s house. Grant has noticed her since then as well. Her mom skipped town and left her with before even living there a year. But beings as he’s two years older than her, he resisted acting on his feelings, until she’s 17. Chelsea gives up her virginity to Grant and they secretly date and have sex for 6 months until he is thrown in prison.

After a two-year break, the indomitable barrister Horace Rumpole returns in six sprightly new capers, including one told by his long-suffering wife Hilda, who proves to be every bit as canny as her crafty curmudgeon of a husband. As always, Mortimer writes with a Wodehousian elan but, unlike Wodehouse, he incorporates a spirited if indirect wrestling with the social and political issues of the day. In the title piece, an old judge with Alzheimer's is a posthumous figure in a case involving a doctor who is charged with unduly hastening the judge's end…