Book Group for Family Caregivers (Virtual)

A true-crime story is next for our Duet book group – Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.

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 years working on her own version of the case. She never finished…

Now Casey Cep finishes the story Harper Lee began. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country’s most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.

Date: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Time: 3 – 4:30 p.m. MST Arizona time
Location: Virtual, using Zoom
Cost: Free of charge
Register: To receive the Zoom link, please contact Deanne Poulos: poulos@duetaz.org