Author
Truman Capote
We've read and reviewed Truman Capote's true crime and crime book In Cold Blood (Vintage International) on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
In Cold Blood (Vintage International)
by Truman Capote
Capote reconstructs the 1959 slaughter of a Kansas farm family and the two drifters who did it, in prose so controlled it changed nonfiction forever. The book that invented the true-crime narrative.