Furious Hours

*3.5 stars - I was fascinated by the series of murders that laid the foundation for Harper Lee's attempted work, The Reverend, but much as Lee found the copious notes and disparate details unyielding to the structures of a “nonfiction novel,” so, too, is what Cep captures here. A smattering of interesting concepts and characters and rabbit holes pulled together loosely but somewhat haphazardly. As such, the book doesn't exactly work, but the details about the murders being explored, the Rev. Maxwell's life and spectre, Lee, Lee and Truman Capote's relationship, To Kill a Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, etc., kept me intrigued and engaged.