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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood, July 2009, 8.5/10.

Written by Truman Capote.  Published by Modern Library.

I enjoyed this ‘semi-fiction’ book (based on a true event with fictional details added).  The first book that I have read by this author, it was a great example of clear, concise storytelling, all the more impressive given the time and research that went into the novel.  Despite this, at no point does the writing become bogged down in any particular detail or at any critical junction – the flow of the story is continuous and fluid.  However the amount of research cuts both ways, and while anything worth knowing about the crime and the people involved was included for the reader to digest, my primary criticism of the book is that the author’s bias was not edited out and this can be jarring, especially when the author’s sympathetic views are juxtaposed against the official perspective of those that he quotes.