In "The Holdout" by Graham Moore, the story revolves around a jury who acquitted a man of murder, leading to public scrutiny and a ten-year reunion where one juror is found dead. The plot unfolds through multiple timelines, with flashbacks to the original trial and the present day investigation, showcasing a tangled web of secrets and surprises among the jurors. The book delves into legal machinations, courtroom drama, and the complexities of the justice system, keeping readers engaged with its clever storytelling and unpredictable twists.
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Content warnings for The Holdout include themes of murder, racial tensions, media manipulation, and ethical dilemmas within the judicial system.
Has Romance?
While The Holdout contains elements of romance, it is more focused on legal and moral dilemmas than on romantic relationships.
From The Publisher:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night. . . .
An ID Book Club Selection
"Exhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the twenty-first century."-A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It's an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed-until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock's innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all their lives forever.
Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jury, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya's hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence-by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.
As the present-day murder investigation entwines with the story of what really happened during their deliberation, told by each of the jurors in turn, the secrets they have all been keeping threaten to come out-with drastic consequences for all involved.
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****5.0****
Graham Moore is one of those new writers who have never failed my expectations.
The story follows he trial is for Bobby Nock, African American teacher accused of killing one of his white students. Maya Seale, picked as a juror, becomes friendly with another selected juror, Rick Leonard, on the very first day in court. Little did they know how involved they would all become.
After 10 years, Rick has written a book and Maya is a defense attorney. On request of a production company, the group of jurors meet again. Everyone in the jury remembers that Maya was the one who convinced them to acquit Bobby Nock. And Rick's book doesn't particularly favor Maya. To solve the differences Rick and Maya meet in her motel room and Rick ends up dead.
Moore did a great job with twists and turns with Human psychology. A well crafted Murder Mystery and legal thriller.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange of a Honest Review.
Happy Reading!!!
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About the Author:
Graham Moore is the New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter for The Imitation Game, which also won a Writers Guild of America Award for best adapted screenplay. Moore was born in Chicago, received…
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