Audiobooks by Gabriel Urza

The Silver State

"A gripping and thought-provoking legal thriller that redefines the genre-by critically acclaimed writer and criminal defense attorney, Gabriel Urza, author of All That Followed. What if justice isn't something the legal system is truly capable of? The Silver State follows Santi, a law school graduate whose idealism is soon worn away by the cases and clients he's assigned. When a young mother, Anna Weston, is brutally murdered and her body is found near Reno's infamous silver mines, Santi and his mentor in the public defender's office, C.J., are tasked with defending Michael Atwood, a man convicted on scant physical evidence and later sentenced to death. Eight years later, a shocking letter from Atwood-now on death row-forces Santi to reexamine his role in the case. At the time, public obsession with Anna's disappearance and intense pressure on the police to make an arrest led to a rushed trial. As they investigated the case Santi and C.J. became increasingly convinced they were defending an innocent man. Now, a horrific discovery leads Santi to reconsider everything he once believed, and all that it has cost him-love, family, and friendship. The Silver State brings to vivid life the deals that get cut in the name of justice, the murkiness between victim and perpetrator, and the cost of a life in the law. Turning the legal thriller on its head, Urza tells an electrifying, emotionally charged tale of systemic failure and moral ambiguity that asks us: What if justice is a myth? For readers of Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy. "A propulsive, hallucinatory, urgent novel. This book will haunt you." -Sierra Crane Murdoch, author of Yellow Bird"

Gabriel Urza (Author), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Narrator)

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All That Followed: A Novel

"A psychologically twisting novel about a politically charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town; a dazzling debut in the tradition of Daniel Alarcón and Mohsin Hamid It’s 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain’s northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician—a family man and father—and the town’s rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, an act of terrorism that rocked the nation and the world, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga’s own troubled past: everyone knows who pulled the trigger five years ago, but is the young man now behind bars the only one to blame? All That Followed peels away the layers of a crime complicated by history, love, and betrayal. The accounts of three townspeople in particular—the councilman’s beautiful young widow, the teenage radical now in jail for the crime, and an aging American teacher hiding a traumatic past of his own—hold the key to what really happened. And for these three, it’s finally time to confront what they can find of the truth. Inspired by a true story, All That Followed is a powerful, multifaceted novel about a nefarious kind of violence that can take hold when we least expect. Urgent, elegant, and gorgeously atmospheric, Urza’s debut is a book for the world we live in now, and it marks the arrival of a brilliant new writer to watch."

Gabriel Urza (Author), Armando Durán, Kyla Garcia, Thom Rivera (Narrator)

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