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I listened to two new books: The Holdout by Graham Moore, narrated by Abby Craden, and You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Dylan Moore.
In The Holdout, the protagonist is a woman who became a defense attorney after serving on a jury that, due to her influence (shades of Twelve Angry Men), defied public opinion to find a man not guilty; a TV show reunites the jurors for the case's tenth anniversary, and she's the prime suspect when a fellow juror is murdered.
It held my interest, with two parallel stories of the original case and the juror's murder, but I am not sure exactly what point the author was making about the justice system, and eventually it devolved into a bit too much melodrama.
You Are Not Alone is psychological suspense, featuring a lonely young woman who witnesses a suicide and becomes enmeshed in an odd circle of women the suicide had been part of. She thinks they are her friends, and they think she is connected to the woman who committed suicide.
I enjoyed it for the most part; it was a little difficult to keep track of the secondary female characters and I don't know that the authors played fair with a certain plot twist. (I wish I'd had the text so I could check!)
All the narrators for both books were good; I especially liked Abby Craden.
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