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The Holdout
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♥ Sandi ❣
4.5 stars

I truly liked this book. Other than the fact that I like books about trials and juries and prisons, which this book has, it reads like an old weaving wavering country road. Twisty and turning, building up momentum, then easing back off, just like driving a hilly curving farm road.

Maya Seale, picked as a juror, becomes friendly with another selected juror, Rick Leonard, on the very first day in court. Little did they know how long this trial would go on and how involved they would becom
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Trisha
Aug 04, 2020 rated it it was amazing
"There was something kind of grand about the idea that only in this courtroom could these randoms assemble. All it took for people in Los Angels to speak to their neighbors was for one of them to kill another."

This was an absolutely amazing read. One that held me on the edge of my seat as I desperately tried to solve each crime, each move, each person as they came on the scene. I love the law. It's messy and super screwed up - but it's ours and I love it. And I've been called on jury duty so man
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