Sude Irine Polyakovoy poruchayut prostoe, no gromkoe delo: izvestnyy obschestvennyy deyatel Smulskiy po neostorozhnosti ubil presledovavshuyu ego poklonnitsu. On pytalsya spasti devushku, a kogda eto ne udalos, yavilsya s povinnoy. Sudya sklonna naznachit samoe myagkoe nakazanie, ved devushka zapugivala semyu Smulskogo, podsylala k ego zhene i docheri banditov. . . No vernaya pomoschnitsa Iriny Gortenziya Andreevna vidit v etom dele vtoroe dno, a Irina privykla doveryat intuitsii staroy uchitelnitsy.
Lyubovno-psihologicheskie romany s yarkoy detektivnoy sostavlyayuschey perenosyat chitateley v retro-vremena: v 80-h godah 20 veka molodaya sudya Irina Polyakova i dva narodnyh zasedatelya, kotorye kazhdyy raz naznachayutsya novye, vershat sudby. Miloserdie, bespristrastnost, pytlivyy um, a glavnoe - ta samaya preslovutaya zhenskaya logika, nad kotoroy prinyato nasmehatsya muzhchinam, pozvolyaet raskruchivat takie dela, kotorye standartnymi metodami ne reshit. Opisanie byta togo vremeni nikogo ne ostavit ravnodushnym, nakal strastey, chest i dostoinstvo, kotorye dlya geroev M. Voronovoy ne pustye slova - vsyo eto samoy vysshey proby!
