NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER тАв One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? From the Academy AwardтАУwinning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night. . . .
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An ID Book Club Selection тАв┬аIn development as a limited series starring and executive produced by Amy Adams
тАЬExhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the twenty-first century.тАЭтАФA. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
ItтАЩs 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 AmericaтАЩs most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. ItтАЩs an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteedтАФuntil Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of NockтАЩs 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 MayaтАЩs hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocenceтАФby getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.
As the present-day murder investigation entwines 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 outтАФwith drastic consequences for all involved.