Five years later, in November 2014, Alice Lee, who had practiced law into her triple digits, died at one hundred and three. By then, the family law office had moved from the Monroe County Bank and acquired an extra name on its shingle, Tonja Carter, who, after suing the author’s former literary agent, had taken over her affairs. Three months after Alice Lee’s death, it was Carter who declared her client’s enthusiasm for a shocking piece of news: Harper Lee would be publishing another book.
