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

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

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Publisher Description

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times
Best Seller

 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing 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 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 years working on her own version of the case.

Now Casey Cep brings this 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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
HH
Hillary Huber
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:15
hr min
RELEASED
2019
May 7
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
359.7
MB

Customer Reviews

FearlessDoctorK ,

captivating saga, effective narrator

Casey Cep writes a non fiction account of Harper Lee's time and character, as she pursues a complex and true story of a black preacher who murders for insurance money, only to be visited by abrupt and very public justice.

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