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I really liked this book. It was well researched and well written. Capote did a masterful job of putting the full story together. When I finished, I didn't feel that there was something missing from the story. It was such a tragic story... such senseless killings. Several years ago, our area was terrorized by a serial killer who took seven lovely women's lives (his name does not deserve to be remembered). It was truly a horrifying experience. Throughout the long 11-year ordeal, fearful of going
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The craft is evident and the research is extraordinarily done - Capote apparently went full method to write this, delving amongst all of the townspeople and getting to know the killers well. It's more of a long report of a crime than a novel. One good thing about the reportage is that Capote has a great gift for little throwaway analyses of the workings of a small town, or killers' motivations. He writes with great clarity, as if summarizing what is already known about a case, but essentially, t
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Chilling account of Clutter family murders.
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