Furious Hours : : Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Locations
Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Lee, Harper, 364.152 Ce
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Lee, Harper	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Lee, Harper	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	364.152 Ce	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024

""A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth."--David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
CHOICE Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Mystery within a mystery submitted by gstenson on June 18, 2019, 9:51pm Casey Cep starts off where Harper Lee left off. Casey is a great writer with an investigative journalist's mind. The book is broken up into three sections: The Murderer, The Lawyer and The Writer (Harper Lee). It was a page-turner. Finished it in 24 hours.

True Crime and more submitted by m.donovich on July 30, 2019, 5:12pm
The untold story of Harper Lee and the true crime story that mesmerized Alexander City, Alabama. Cep successfully manages to interweave a complicated and elusive story into a gripping page turner.