THE HOLDOUT

If you relish a courtroom drama, this high-concept audio thriller has your number. Imagine TWELVE ANGRY MEN 10 years on, in a world that is now righteously convinced that the holdout who talked the rest of the jury into acquitting set a guilty man free. Maya Seale, that holdout, whose life was permanently changed by the trial, has become a defense lawyer herself. Now a fellow juror with whom she has a complicated connection is reviving the case, reassembling the jury to participate when he reveals "new evidence" for a true-crime podcast. It's the last thing Maya needs; then someone murders him. Abby Craden inhabits these personalities with precision and skill and maintains high tension as the plot folds and twists into itself. B.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2020]