In Cold Blood
Truman Capote • 1966
Devastation Rating
true crime murder journalism Kansas
Our Take
Capote spent six years reconstructing the Clutter family murders and in doing so invented true crime writing while destroying himself. The genius is in the structure — alternating between the family's last day and the killers approaching. You know what's coming and cannot look away.
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