Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

by Casey Cep

County Probate Court to legitimate a six-week-old child:

years before. The New York that Harper

house friends walked around Second Avenue, talking in what Benson remembers was an almost private

In The

Good book?

case. Madison Jones was

Like her, he had an interest in crime, and his last book, Season of the Strangler, consisted of a set of twelve interconnected stories based on a series of murders in Columbus, Georgia.