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Truman Capote

Five Crime Novels That Inspired Fake Plastic Girl and Fake Plastic World

By Zara Lisbon

June 12, 2020

Ever since reading Nancy Drew in third grade, I’ve wanted to write about crime. Or, more specifically, the mystery that so often comes hand in hand with crime. Between third grade and the time I eventually wrote Fake Plastic Girl and Fake Plastic World, I had many years to dive deeper into the world of…

Five Authors Who Wrote Too Close to the Flame

By Alice Blanchard

December 2, 2019

I am in awe of Truman Capote’s work. He is an exquisite writer. If you read Other Voices Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Music for Chameleons, which includes the brilliant novella “Handcarved Coffins,” you’ll see what I mean. They are literary classics.

Book Review: We Were Killers Once by Becky Masterman

By Ray Palen

June 27, 2019

Based off the crimes made famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, We Were Killers Once by Becky Masterman wonders what if Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were working with a third man—and what if he was still alive… On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter…

What if There was a Third Killer in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood?

By Becky Masterman

June 3, 2019

Jeremiah Beaufort became my monster while I was thinking of stories for my fourth book in a series with retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn. She adores her late-in-life husband Carlo, an ex-priest.  They couldn’t be more different, and she continues to hide her past several years into their marriage. I was talking to my agent…

Cold Blooded Fiction: Introducing We Were Killers Once

By Becky Masterman

February 7, 2019

Becky Masterman, author of the Brigid Quinn mystery series, introduces us to her newest novel, We Were Killers Once. Based off the crimes made famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, We Were Killers Once wonders what if Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were working with a third man — and what if he was…

The Case Made Famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood to Be Adapted as True Crime Documentary

By Crime HQ

November 2, 2017

Truman Capote’s seminal In Cold Blood is the one of the bestselling true crime novels in history (second only to Vincent Bugliosi's 1974 book Helter Skelter). Published in 1966, the book recounts the shocking murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. After learning of the murders, Capote traveled…

11 True Crime Books That Prove Real Life Can Be Scarier than Fiction

By Sadie Trombetta

April 7, 2016

Between the Netflix hit Making a Murderer and the FX limited series that everyone keeps talking about, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, it seems like a true crime sensation is sweeping the nation. What is it that makes true crime—whether it’s a television show, movie, or book—so much more intriguing than a…

3 Reasons Harper Lee Was Almost a Crime Writer

By Adam Wagner

February 19, 2016

Author Nelle Harper Lee (the Nelle being a tribute to her grandmother Ellen—Nelle being Ellen spelled backwards), writer of one of the most important books in American history, To Kill a Mockingbird, has passed away today at the young age of 89.  While she only published two novels—the second of which, the recently published Go…

Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee

Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee

By Doreen Sheridan

July 23, 2013

Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee is a graphic novel depicting a fictionalized version of author Truman Capote's travels through Middle America researching the murder of the Clutter family for his classic book (new hardcover re-release available July 24, 2013). Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is widely recognized as a seminal work,…

Taking a Bite out of Crime!

Opposites Attract: Why We Love Both Castle and The Wire

By Ian Truman

December 12, 2012

I was looking at my collection (yes, I do this a lot) and I was wondering. How can I have on the same shelf genres such as hard-boiled, gritty, literary, noir, literary noir, police procedurals, timeless classics like Catch-22, In Cold Blood, Naked Lunch, but also Dan Brown, some pulp PI novels and a collection…

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