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Casey Cep
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This “superbly written true-crime story” (The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story.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.
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Author
Casey Cep
Pages
336
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-05-07
ISBN
110194787X 9781101947876
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"I really didn’t know what to expect when reading this book, but it was very well reviewed and written. This is basically the true story of 3 people. A rumored serial killer, his lawyer, and the famous Nelle Harper Lee who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. The connection and story of the 3, and really Lee’s life, is very interesting. "
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