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

Posted July 1, 2021

With guests Serena Zilliacus and Debby Dodds, Caroline Miller discusses 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 insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead.