True crime book group meeting to discuss "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" by Casey Cep.
Love watching true crime documentaries and tv shows? Can't get enough of true crime podcasts?
This is a monthly book group focused on reading and discussing True Crime.
Join us on Zoom to discuss Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep.
This title is available electronically from Libby/Overdrive for free with your library card. Libby copies will be available 4 weeks before the group's meeting date.
ebook: Libby
eaudiobook: Libby
catalog record for physical book
"Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members, but with the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative assassinated him 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 himself. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more trying to finish the book she called The Reverend.
Cep brings this remarkable story to life, from the horrifying murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South, while offering a deeply moving portrait of one of our most revered writers." -From the publisher
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