How many people get to solve their own murder?

Anne Murphy is smart, gorgeous, and adolescent, the red-headed rookie in the Philadelphia lawyer of Rosato & Affiliates. She leaves town for the Fourth of July weekend to get ready for any high-profile trial, but when she buys her morning newspaper, her own picture is plastered all over the front side page. As well as the headline — Attorney MURDERED — supposedly refers to her. Anne sets out to come across her killer, performing dead to be able to stay alive.

She tries to go about Courting Problems it alone but quickly realizes that she’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her guts, a homicide squad who wants her from the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. The analysis takes most of Anne’s boldness and ingenuity — and also a pair of reddish satin hot trousers. But her knack for courting difficulty makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, defend the lawsuit, and combat her desire to sleep with the enemy. Then an urgent event locations her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to reduce — including her lifestyle.