A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE 2020 CRIME WRITERS'' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
''A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she''d spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.''
DAVID GRANN, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
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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 ins
