The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel - a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined.
Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker. After graduating from Harvard College with a degree in English, she earned an M.Phil in theology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her family. Furious Hours is her first book and was an instant New York Times bestseller.
It’s been a long time since I picked up a book so impossible to put
down. Furious Hours made me forget dinner, ignore incoming calls,
and stay up reading into the small hours. It’s a work of literary
and legal detection as gripping as a thriller. But it’s also a
meditation on motive and mystery, the curious workings of history,
hope, and ambition, justice, and the darkest matters of life and
death. Casey Cep’s investigation into an infamous Southern murder
trial and Harper Lee’s quest to write about it is a beautiful,
sobering, and sometimes chilling triumph.
*Helen Macdonald, author of 'H is for Hawk'*
This story is just too good ... Furious Hours builds and builds
until it collides with the writer who saw the power of Maxwell’s
story, but for some reason was unable to harness it. It lays bare
the inner life of a woman who had a world-class gift for hiding ...
[this] book makes a magical leap, and it goes from being a superbly
written true-crime story to the sort of story that even Lee would
have been proud to write.
*Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball' and 'The Big Short'*
Fascinating ... Cep has spliced together a Southern-gothic tale of
multiple murder and the unhappy story of Lee’s literary career, to
produce a tale that is engrossing in its detail and deeply
poignant... [Cep] spends the first third of Furious Hours following
the jaw-dropping trail of murders ... Engrossing ... Cep writes
about all this with great skill, sensitivity and attention to
detail.
*Sunday Times*
With its rich cast of characters, the polar opposite settings of
New York and rural Alabama, Cep’s dark humour and painstaking
research, there is a great deal to enjoy ... a rich and rewarding
read.
*The Times*
A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that
Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story
she’d 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 Moon'*
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