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Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee was an instant New York Times bestseller. You can follow her on Instagram (@caseycep).

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Furious Hours by Casey Cep
"This book is a wild ride. It's about an Alabama murder trial from the 70s, and that story is wild enough, but it's also Harper Lee's last literary task. She had helped her childhood friend Truman Capote write In Cold Blood (though privately she later" Read more of this review »
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"Un sospetto serial killer ucciso durante il funerale della sua ultima vittima, un avvocato che difende prima il serial killer, e poi il suo assassino e infine una famosa scrittrice che tenta di completare il suo secondo, a lungo atteso, libro... Ce n" Read more of this review »
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"Absolutely loved this book! The book is interesting in how it’s divided into several parts. I had no idea how everything was going to fit together: a history of East Alabama, a history of life insurance and subsequent fraud surrounding it, the murder" Read more of this review »
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“Water, like violence, is difficult to contain.”
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“He might not have believed in what he preached, he might not have believed in voodoo,” she wrote of the Reverend, “but he had a profound and abiding belief in insurance.”
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With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra.
 
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