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

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

Casey Cep

486 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious medium-paced

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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...

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informative 90%
mysterious 39%
reflective 33%
dark 32%
sad 16%
challenging 13%
emotional 9%
adventurous 8%
inspiring 5%
tense 5%
funny 3%
hopeful 1%

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slow 45%
fast 5%

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