The Holdout - Graham Moore
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Abby Craden
Tags: Thriller, Novel, Mystery, Adults
10h15m, One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and best-selling author of The Last Days of Night., Exhilaratinga fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the 21st century. (A. J. Finn, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Woman in the Window), Its 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 25-year-old African-American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into Americas most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. Its 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 Nocks inno
