Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
***Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction***
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“This is flat-out one of the most enjoyable—or one of the most enjoyable—books I’ve read this year. It’s fascinating, thrilling, in the sense that it is a thriller, a nonfiction thriller. It has all the elements of a John Grisham novel, but it happened in real life.” Read more...
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