Presumably a pleb question, however - any books similar to these?

>>8850527
There's an entire real crime genre that's largely founded on In Cold Blood

>>8850530
I have read some books suggested by the Goodreads True Crime section but have yet to stumble upon one that would have the layered unassuming nature of those two.
Would be glad if you could suggest some that could offer this at least partially.

>>8850527
Off the Wall by Charles Willeford. It's about the Son of Sam.

Unfortunately it hasn't been reprinted so you'll likely need to spend at least a couple hundred to get a copy.

>>8850600
Looks interesting and I am a sucker for the topic, thanks!

No TrueCrime novel has ever touched In Cold Blood in terms of quality. Capote knew very well what he was doing when he differentially described Perry and Dick imo, knowing that people would assume he had some sort of journalistic bias toward Perry's nature, and in doing so demonstrated the muddied nature of objective recollection of an event. As far as something similar, James Ellroy is very good. It's fiction, but the crimes he writes about are of similar bloody nature and he always divulges into the reactions of the network of people vaguely related to the victims and murderers

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>>8850651
Funny, I did not really think of trying fiction in this regard. Can definitely see it working. Thanks!

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Hopeful bump.
Reading All the President's Men now but it just feels like a list of names so far - although certain developments are promising.

>>8850527
I liked David Simon's Homicide and Peter Maas's Serpico in high school. Also Jon Krakauer (not really True Crime tho). None of them hold a candle to In Cold Blood. I wanted to like Executioners Song but it really isn't Mailer's best despite its ambition.