In Cold Blood

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The most famous true crime novel of all time c<b>hills the blood and exercises the intelligence (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>)<b>--</b>and</b> haunted its author long after he finished writing it.<br></b><br> On November 15 1959 in the small town of Holcomb Kansas four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime and there were almost no clues. <p/> In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture trial and execution of the killers generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. <i>In Cold Blood</i> is a work that transcends its moment yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.