In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Re-reading this book now, I find that extracurricular reading on the case and the recent Truman Capote biopics had clouded my memory. "In Cold Blood" had become for me more about the ingratiating Tru as killer-groupie and minor if salacious sub details on the case and life on death row had clouded my memory. The book I appreciate more as it is simpler, direct and well-wrought package from crime to execution. This is no gonzo journalism, but Tru does cast a detail-oriented eye on the killers, their psychological make-up, motivations and handling of their crime. I don't know if Capote was one of the first to humanize the perpetrators in this way, but it feels like this book was pioneering in that way.
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