Fiction by Graham Moore.
Ten years ago, a man called Bobby Nock was accused of a brutal murder, tried for the crime, and acquitted by the jury. Maya Seale was on that jury, and no one will let her forget it. After coming out of sequestration, she and the other jurors find themselves vilified by the media and public opinion.
Under the pressure after the trial, almost every other member of the jury recanted on their position, and insisted it was only Maya's strong persuasion that convinced them to find Bobby Nock not guilty. Although Maya still feels she was right in holding out against conviction, and that the prosecution's case had not been sufficiently proven, she is reluctant to attend a ten-years-later-reunion reality show and rake it all up again.
Still, Maya and (almost all) the other jury members head back to the hotel in which they had been sequestered ten years before... and something truly unexpected happens.
This was a really good book!
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