The Holdout - Graham Moore

Thriller/Mystery

Rating: 7.5/10

A decade after serving as a juror in a controversial trail that saw the defendant acquitted, our main character Maya finds herself the center of a whole new murder mystery.

Despite now being a successful lawyer, she still bears the stain of having been vilified by the public and the press due to her influencing other jurors to change their guilty verdicts to not guilty. So, its unsurprising that she is suspect number one of this new crime.  As she works to prove her innocence, we not only get insight into the original crime that started it all, but we get short chapters from the perspectives of each of the other eleven jurors that allow us to see what they were thinking at the time.

An enthralling read that felt almost as if I was binge watching a fictional crime series on television.

Thanks to Penguin Random Publishers, the Author and Net Galley for the advanced readers copy.

Footnote: I am not a fan of legal thrillers, but I could totally get on board with more jury behind the scenes stories!