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Calling true crime “serious literature” is not, of course, a new development. Truman Capote famously attempted to elevate accounts of real murder through ‘In Cold Blood’, first published in The New Yorker in 1965. He described his approach as a “nonfiction novel”, combining reporting with techniques more readily associated with fiction. Its influence has been enormous, although later scrutiny has also challenged Capote’s claims of complete factual accuracy.