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True Crime Novel Depicts the Small-town Murders that Stunned a Nation
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered., with no motive or clues to the killer. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy, whilst revealing the mindset of a cold-blooded killer. |