Join our Wednesday Afternoon Book Group for a lively discussion. We meet on the last Wednesday of each month from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm in the Fireplace Room. Copies of the title to be discussed are available one month prior to each discussion. Ask for the Wednesday Afternoon Book Group choice at the front Circulation Desk.

Registration is required, so that we can send you the login credentials. For more information, contact Library Director, Nanci Milone Hill.

This evening we will be discussing Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

SUMMARY: “Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted–thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own ‘In Cold Blood,’ the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more years working on her own version of the case. ”