The Holdout
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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. . . .
"Exhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and...
"Exhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and...
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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. . . ."Exhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the twenty-first century."-A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
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.
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Chapter 1Ten Years in L.A.
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Maya Seale removed two photographs from her briefcase. She held them face-in against her skirt. This thing was all going to come down to timing.
Ms. Seale? came the judge s voice, impatient. We re waiting.
Belen Vasquez, Maya s client, had suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her husband, Elian. There were extensive ER records to prove it. One morning a few months back, Belen had snapped. She d stabbed her husband while he was sleeping and then cut off his head with a pair of garden shears. Then she d driven around for an entire day in her green Hyundai Elantra with the severed head mounted on the dash. Either nobody noticed or nobody wanted to get involved. Eventually, a cop had pulled her over for running a light and she d managed to stuff the head in the glove compartment.
The good news, from Maya s perspective, was that the prosecution had only one piece of solid physical evidence to use against Belen. The bad news was that the evidence was a head.
I m ready, Your Honor. Maya placed a reassuring hand on her client s shoulder. Then she walked slowly to the witness box, where Officer Jason Shaw sat waiting, his Distinguished Service Medal displayed prominently on the lapel of his blue LAPD uniform.
Officer Shaw, she said, what happened when you pulled over Mrs. Vasquez s car?
Well, ma am, like I was saying, my partner remained behind Mrs. Vasquez s vehicle while I approached her window.
He was going to be one of those cops who did the ma am thing with her, wasn t he? Maya hated the ma am thing. Not because she was thirty-six, which she had to admit was probably ma am -worthy, but because it was such a transparent attempt to make her seem stuck up.
She tucked her short, dark hair behind her ear. And when you approached the window, did you observe Mrs. Vasquez sitting in the driver s seat?
Yes, ma am.
Did you ask her for her license and registration?
Yes, ma am.
Did she
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give them to you?
Yes, ma am.
Did you ask her for anything else?
I asked her why there was blood on her hands. Officer Shaw paused. Ma am.
And what did Mrs. Vasquez tell you?
She said that she cut her hand in the kitchen.
And did she present any evidence to support her claim?
Yes, ma am. She showed me the bandage across her right palm.
Did you ask her anything else?
I asked her to step out of the vehicle.
Why?
Because there was blood on her hands.
But hadn t she given you a perfectly reasonable explanation for the blood?
I wanted to investigate further.
Why did you need to investigate further, Maya asked, if Mrs. Vasquez had given you a reasonable explanation?
Shaw looked at her as if she were a hall monitor sending him to the principal s office for some minor infraction.
Intuition, he said.
Maya actually felt sorry for the poor guy right then. The prosecutor hadn t prepped him well.
I m sorry, Officer, can you describe your intuition in more detail?
Maybe I saw some of the head. He was only digging himself in deeper.
Maybe, Maya repeated slowly, you saw some of the head?
It was dark, Shaw admitted. But maybe I s
Yes, ma am.
Did you ask her for anything else?
I asked her why there was blood on her hands. Officer Shaw paused. Ma am.
And what did Mrs. Vasquez tell you?
She said that she cut her hand in the kitchen.
And did she present any evidence to support her claim?
Yes, ma am. She showed me the bandage across her right palm.
Did you ask her anything else?
I asked her to step out of the vehicle.
Why?
Because there was blood on her hands.
But hadn t she given you a perfectly reasonable explanation for the blood?
I wanted to investigate further.
Why did you need to investigate further, Maya asked, if Mrs. Vasquez had given you a reasonable explanation?
Shaw looked at her as if she were a hall monitor sending him to the principal s office for some minor infraction.
Intuition, he said.
Maya actually felt sorry for the poor guy right then. The prosecutor hadn t prepped him well.
I m sorry, Officer, can you describe your intuition in more detail?
Maybe I saw some of the head. He was only digging himself in deeper.
Maybe, Maya repeated slowly, you saw some of the head?
It was dark, Shaw admitted. But maybe I s
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Autoren-Porträt von Graham Moore
Graham Moore is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Days of Night and The Sherlockian, and the Academy Award winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game, which also won a Writers Guild of America Award for best adapted screenplay and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Moore was born in Chicago, received a BA in religious history from Columbia University in 2003, and now lives in Los Angeles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Graham Moore
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 336 Seiten, Masse: 15,7 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593138813
- ISBN-13: 9780593138816
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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A spicy stew of intrigue replete with buried secrets and unexpected motives. The New York Times Book ReviewWow! I loved The Holdout, in which author Graham Moore does the impossible, creating a page-turning legal thriller with a twisty and absolutely riveting plot, as well as raising profound and thought-provoking questions about the jury system and modern justice. All that, plus a strong and compelling female heroine in lawyer Maya Seale, whom you ll root for as the tables turn against her and she finds herself behind bars, with everything on the line. You won t be able to put this one down! Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Someone Knows
Graham Moore s heart beats on every page of The Holdout, a murder trial as only he could have written it: secrets and lies, mysteries upon mysteries, and a cast of characters each with their own dubious motives. This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, standout read that hooked me till the last page. Caroline Kepnes, author of You
The most gripping and satisfying thriller I ve read in more than a decade. Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders
This stellar novel from bestseller [Graham] Moore takes a searing look at the U.S. justice system, media scrutiny, and racism. . . . Moore has set a new standard for legal thrillers. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The twists are sharp and the flashbacks that uncover what each juror knows are placed for maximum impact in this rollicking legal thriller. . . . Moore expertly combines deft character work with mounting bombshell revelations in a story that will attract new readers and also seems primed for the big screen. Library Journal (starred review)
[A] stemwinder of a murder mystery wrapped in a legal thriller . . . The story is gripping, and the pace is furious. Booklist
Quite the tour de force! Twelve
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Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own. Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
Clever, well-written, and twistier than a can of Silly String. You absolutely need to read The Holdout! I could not put it down. Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch a Killer
Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you ve got The Holdout. A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Clever, well-written, and twistier than a can of Silly String. You absolutely need to read The Holdout! I could not put it down. Emma Kavanagh, author of To Catch a Killer
Plunge a syringe filled with adrenaline into the heart of Twelve Angry Men and you ve got The Holdout. A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
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