Elie Berthe's novel “The Juror” is a classic of the French detective genre. Several heroes, people of different professions and characters, find themselves drawn into a very dangerous story. The murder of a tax collector, famous for his courtship of women, the strange behavior of a beautiful seamstress who came on a date instead of a rich heiress, a former convict who became an overnight rich man - all these are important links in the chain of strange events that took place in a quiet French town.