Review of "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, Scott Brick

When this book first came out it was an unbelievable bestseller. No one had gone into every corner of horrible murder and taken the reader along for a ghastly ride before Truman Capote did here. On November 15, 1959 in a small town in Kansas, four members of a family by the name of Clutter were murdered. The murders were savage. There were almost no clues, and no apparent motive for the crime.

Capote reconstructs the murder and investigation that led to the capture, trial and execution of the killers. In writing this book he has given us the inside tale and shows us every detail of the crimes and the capture. Capote was famous before this book came out, but it was "In Cold Blood" that made him an idolized writer.

Reader Scott Brick has performed on film and other media. He made tours as Cyrano and Macbeth which brought him fame. Further he is a perfect reader for this internationally famous novel.

We remember Capote for the lighter things he wrote like "Breakfast at Tiffany's," but we will never forget the chilling story that he wrote in this book.