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

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“Compelling . simultaneously a true-crime thriller, courtroom dilemma, and small biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of 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 members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative about Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, as well as the Last Trial of Harper Lee shot him inactive at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted-thanks to the same lawyer who had previously defended the Reverend.

Seated in the target audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who experienced traveled from New York City to her indigenous Alabama with the thought of writing her own In Cold Bloodstream, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote study seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a calendar year in town reporting, and so many more years focusing on her very own version from the case.

Today Casey Cep brings this story alive, from your shocking murders towards the courtroom episode towards the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she gives a deeply moving portrait of one from the country’s most beloved authors and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of creative creativity.