Furious Hours by Casey Cep

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

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Book title is misleading.
As much as I was fascinated with the history and accounts of Nelle Harper Lee and Rev Willie Maxwell, the title is a bit misleading. The first half of the book is dedicated to the the life and death of Rev Maxwell and the second half related to Ms Lee’s life and death. It did provide interesting insight into the author’s rigid perfectionist personality which greatly affected her writing career. I found her relationship with Truman Capote for most of her life fascinating and her contribution to his successful writing career. The author then explains Lee and her struggles to write about the Maxwell murders. The stories seems disjointed and and tangential in its flow not not what I expected based on the title.



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