New York Times Best Seller

“Compelling . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and small biography of Harper Lee. If To Get rid of a Mockingbird was among your favorite books developing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today.” -Southern Living

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family for insurance profit the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for a long time until a relative about Furious Hours: Murder, Scams, as well as the Last Trial of Harper Lee shot him useless on the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted-thanks towards the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.

Sitting down in the viewers through the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from NEW YORK to her indigenous Alabama with the thought of writing her personal In Cold Bloodstream, the true-crime classic she acquired helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a calendar year in town reporting, and many more years focusing on her personal version of the case.

Today Casey Cep brings this story alive, through the shocking murders towards the courtroom crisis towards the racial politics from the Deep South. At exactly the same time, she presents a deeply shifting portrait of one of the country’s most beloved writers and her have a problem with popularity, success, and the mystery of creative creativity.