The brutal 1959 murders of a Kansas farming family -- and the two men who committed them. The book that invented true crime.
About This Book
Truman Capote’s masterpiece of true crime, intensely researched and vividly atmospheric—“as it if were happening before [the reader’s] very eyes” (Time)“Harrowing . . . The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence.”—The New York Times Book ReviewOn November 15th, 1959, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want something unflinching: morally complex, heavy, and honest about the worst of things. The writing rewards attention without being demanding, a good balance of depth and readability. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. Not the right choice if you're after something comforting or redemptive.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something dark and uncompromising, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
In Cold Blood explores survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, and loss and what remains after it.
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