A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2020 CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NONFICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic truecrime story shed spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.DAVID GRANN, author of Killers of the Flower MoonThe stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the truecrime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a MockingbirdReverend 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 at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwells murderer was acquitted thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.As Alabama is consumed by these gripping events, its not long until news of the case reaches Alabamas and Americas most famous writer. Intrigued by the story, Harper Lee makes a journey back to her home state to witness the Reverends killer face trial. Harper had the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the truecrime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research. Lee spent a year in town...

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Cornerstone; Classification: BTC; Weight: 380 g; Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 29

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