No Saints in Kansas

By: Amy Brashear

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

A gripping reimagining of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the brutal murders that inspired it

November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive.

New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl. The secret connected Carly and Bobby. Now that Bobby is an outsider, too, they're bound closer than ever.

Determined to clear Bobby's name, Carly dives into the murder investigation and ends up in trouble with the local authorities. But that's nothing compared to the wrath she faces from Holcomb once the real perpetrators are caught. When her father is appointed to defend the killers of the Clutter family, the entire town labels the Flemings as traitors. Now Carly must fight for what she knows is right.

©2017 Amy Brashear (P)2017 Recorded Books

Not for me.

Did not like to format of this book. Did not like the narrator on this book.

Takes too many liberties... it's terrible!

To create fiction around actual people and events is one thing, it may have worked under certain circumstances. However, I cannot abide the author creating thoughts, feelings and attitudes for real people she never met. And to make a suspect out of Bobby Rupp, Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, who was questioned and cleared without reservation, though the suspicions of the townspeople remained for a time anyway, is awful. This was a horrible real event that affected people forever. To capitalize on that by writing a reimagining is unconscionable!

If you want an intriguing story that focuses on much more than the Truman Capote mystique of the murders, and respects the victims and Holcomb, KS, watch the documentary Cold Blooded on Amazon.

YUCK

Thought this would be interesting, but NO it isn't. Very boring and the reader is NOT good. I wish I had my credit back.