02762cam a2200397 i 4500 606009865 TxAuBib 20220927120000.0 190712s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019029712 9780399591778 acid-free paper 039959177X acid-free paper 9780593138816 international edition 0593138813 international edition 9780399591792 paperback 0399591796 paperback TxAuBib rda Moore, Graham, 1981- The holdout : a novel / Graham Moore. First edition. New York : Random House, [2020] 322 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. 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 of their lives forever. 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--with drastic consequences for all involved"-- Provided by publisher. 20220927. Race relations Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Legal stories. Mystery fiction. Moore, Graham., New York : Random House, [2020].