THE HOLDOUT by Graham Moore



Here is a whodunnit thriller with all sorts of twists and turns, I actually got a bit confused by the time the ending came around and now some weeks after finishing I can't remember what the outcome was! Anyway ten years ago Maya was on a jury for the trial of a young black man accused of killing a white school girl, who body is never found. She is adamant that he is innocent and over the course of the deliberations manages to persuade all her fellow jurors to a not guilty verdict. The trial was a total sensation in its day, went on for months, the jury having to be contained in a hotel for almost the entire time with massive fallouts for each of the jury members in their personal and professional lives. Now ten years later, one of the jury members has announced he has new evidence that he is going to present at a special reunion TV show. The jurors are all put in the same hotel and rooms they were in 10 years ago, all going well until the juror with the evidence is found dead, and it is revealed that Maya, now a successful defence attorney, was the last person to see him. A great whodunnit - not only with Maya trying to find  out who murdered who fellow juror, and may also be after her, but also who murdered the young girl all those years ago. Honestly, I had no idea where this was going.



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