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Books and Brews Book Discussion In-Person

Join us online on Zoom for our July discussion!

Stubborn Beauty Brewing at 180 Johnson St, Middletown, CT currently has online ordering and curbside pick-up. Order to go and enjoy at home during the discussion! 

Zoom link sent out 1 hour ahead of time. Please register to receive the link!

The July title is  Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Leeby  Casey Cep. Copies available for curbside pick-up or E-copies are available at www.russelllibrary.org

From Goodreads: The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

Reverend 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, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted–thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.

Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case.

Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. 

Questions? E-mail Christy Billings at cbillings@russelllibrary.org

Sponsored by the Friends of Russell Library.

Date:
Thursday, July 9, 2020 Show more dates
Time:
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Other 3
Categories:
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