True Crime Club: In Cold Blood

Join us for an engaging, lighthearted discussion of this fascinating yet disturbing genre. We will focus on uplifting and empathizing with the victims of these crimes. 

We will be reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences. 

You can borrow a copy here using your library card.

Summary: 

"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime and almost no clues.

Five years, four months, and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas.

In Cold Blood is the story of these six people's lives and deaths. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.

Genres:

True Crime, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Thriller

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