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In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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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 Review

On November 15th, 1959, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. This superb work, an exhaustively researched narrative of the lives of the family and the men who killed them, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965.

Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events. Americas Murder Social Sciences State & Local True Crime United States Crime Exciting Scary Fiction
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Critic reviews

“A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work.”—Life

“A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written ‘true account.’”—The New York Times

“The best documentary account of an American crime ever written . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence. . . . Harrowing.”—The New York Review of Books
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This is one of the most well-written true crime books I have heard. It is like a psychological thriller and presents the perpetrators sympathetically without excusing their crimes. Scott Brick is also a fine narrator. I remember his clean, crisp narration of Helter Skelter. He does not disappoint in this book either. I would highly recommend this book!

Scary, sad and compelling

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What a fantastic listen to I have been reading and listening to true crime for 40 years can't believe I didn't know about this book best one ever.

Brilliant

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Despite the case being 60 years old and the original book written over 50 years ago, this stands the test of time. A really well written, well balanced story that doesn’t, in my opinion, feel like a story written so long ago. It is helped by a really excellent narrator. I would recommend this to anyone liking true crime.

Stands the test of time

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This was recommended to me and not disappointed. The story is well told, with amazing detail. Excellently read too.

Perfectly written and presented.

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The story is captivating throughout, and the narrator truly does it justice. Wholeheartedly recommended.

Excellent in every way

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