When Herbert William Clutter and his family were bound, gagged, and murdered on the night of November 15, 1959, there was little evidence of who’d done it, or why. The story of their gruesome end made the New York Times, where it was read by literary light Truman Capote, who determined almost immediately—even before the eventual suspects were arrested—that he would go to Kansas and write the story of the crime. In this groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction, Capote reconstructs the homicides and their aftermath with stunning attention and a paradoxically expressive reticence; from the perpetrators’ first knowledge of the well-to-do farmer, gleaned from a former jail mate, to the discovery of the murder scene and the subsequent investigation, capture, trial, and punishment, In Cold Blood is one of the most powerful true-crime dramas ever penned. It remains the gold standard of the genre it transfigured, and transcends.
This is my all time favorite book. Never have I been gripped by a book where I knew the who, what and where from the beginning of the book. A true page turner just to find out the why!!!
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