On Wednesday, author Casey Cep spoke to a crowd at Adelia M. Russell Library about her new novel “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” about the Coosa County murders that occurred in 1976 and Lee’s attempt to write it.

Lee visited the Lake Martin area after hearing about multiple murders tied to Rev. Willie Maxwell and his murderer Robert Burns. Local attorney Tom Radney defended both Maxwell and Burns.