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

By Casey Cep. From my review: "Cep is actually keeping four stories in the air in Furious Hours: Maxwell and his diabolically clever murder schemes; the vengeance Robert Burns enacted, and how it would be adjudicated; the attorney who represented them both while trying to have a political career as a deep-South liberal; and everything that brought Harper Lee to that crossroads with them." One of the highlights of its pub year, in my opinion, and this hardcover first doesn’t look great at first glance — the jacket’s a bit edgeworn and rumpled at the edges, bows out a bit top and bottom; the boards have some scrapes to them too. Neat and un-dog-eared inside though AFAICT; a good-enough reading copy.