I had a lot of curiosity about this book, having heard so much about it and having seen the film 'Capote', about Truman Capote researching this book.
Capote expertly tells the stories of the murders of the Clutter family, it's impact on the town and the lives of the murders Perry Smith and Dick Hancock.
I am not sure how much of the stories of the men's lives are true, though they seem very plausible and unromantcised. Capote seems to get to the bottom of what was a completely incomprehensible crime, the family were murdered apparently for no real reason and with no real thought by two lost, cruel and unthinking, unfeeling men. For this reason the murders were so shocking, the town and the US at the time were searching for an explanation, and it seems that the explanation there is is completely unsatisfactory. It goes against everything common sense and culture tells us.
