Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. His writing delves into intricate subjects with a masterful narrative style. Moore often explores glimmers of hope and humanity in the face of adversity. His ability to bring historical figures and events to life has earned him widespread acclaim.
Set in 1939, Ansel Luxford, a successful lawyer, is driven by the looming threat of war in Europe. He relocates his family to Washington, D.C., to join a secret Treasury Department team focused on economic warfare against Nazi Germany. As he navigates a world of espionage, Ansel orchestrates covert operations to disrupt German finances, facing challenges from influential figures and homegrown fascists. Meanwhile, his wife’s new job with the FBI complicates their lives as they both confront hidden dangers and deception from unexpected sources.
It's 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. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It's an open and shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed. Until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock's innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all of their lives forever. Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya's hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence--by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed. As the present-day murder investigation weaves together 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 out--with drastic consequences for all involved.
New York, 1888: When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception
Krimi. When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer
