9780399591792
The Holdout
Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them—and Jessica's blood is found in his car. It's an open and shut case for the prosecutiond. 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. Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors, 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 weaves together 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.
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Publication date: 11/05/2021
  • ISBN: 9780399591792
  • Page extent: 336
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 204 mm x 133 mm
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