In Cold Blood was one of Capotes more famous books as it launched the genre of novelistic non-fiction. The book is written like a novel but is supposed to be all true, on the events leading up to and after the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock.
Maybe it's because I'm very interested in murder cases but I found it only mildly interesting. Capote shows good technical skills as a writer, but never quite knows where events in the book stand, is every thought Capote emits coming from characters heads as they go through events accurate? Almost impossible. If Capote has not taken artistic license he has god-like powers of making people remember places, events and thoughts in perfect photographic memory and getting a range of people to share them to him. Also other journalists suggest he made up passages and quotes to fit his story.
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