content: The author, Truman Capote, created a new genre of novel with this account of a true crime... The novel is expertly set up with a suspense you might not think could exist. He sets it up artfully by writing that a murder has been committed, and then tracing the backgrounds, and the paths of the killers up to the night of the murder itself, so that the details of the multiple homicide are the climax of the book... Like a Shakespearean drama, there's a "fifth act" of some resolution regarding the fates of the killers and some of the Clutter family friends. I think that this is the author's best book ever. It's full of hope and sadness, good and evil, and it never fails to scrutinize and explore the spaces between two extremes. For more of Truman Capote I suggestThe Complete Stories of Truman Capote