Genre: Mystery / Crime
Book Type: Physical
Author: Graham Moore
Pages: 336
Publisher: Random House (February 18, 2020)
Book Description:
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. . . .
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 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—with drastic consequences for all involved.
Thoughts:
This book challenges you to think about how far you will fight for Justice and the Truth. It is extremely well written in alternating POVs between Maya in Present Day, and the jurors in the past (during the trial), which you all know I absolutely love!
I found it easy to relate to Maya and her desire to search for Justice at all costs. Her character was written so well, and I found it easy to believe why she acts the way that she does in various situations. She has an incredible drive to get answers and that you are innocent until proven guilty, which for me, was a nice twist on how the world acts today where I feel you need to prove your innocence. Ironically, this book played on both proving one guilty, as well as innocent and makes you question your own mindset.
This book took so many twists and turns and is full of prejudices, stereotypes, self-doubt, desire, love, pursuit of answers (to so many questions in this book), power, deceit, betrayal, secrets, guilt and innocence. I highly recommend adding it to your TBR pile! The twists keep coming in this book and you will not be disappointed.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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