Capote's prose is fantastic. His images are precise and vivid, and due to this his ability to create an encapsulating scene that truly puts the reader in the moment, in this Kansas city--a quiet, small-town paradise--as it was turned inside out after a quadruple murder. Capote delves deep into the psyche of the killers, while juxtaposing that to the solitary and yet dynamically-portrayed lives of the victims.