And Every Word Is True: Newfound evidence reveals Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is not the end of the story.

Truman Capotes bestselling book In Cold Blood has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the Kansas Bureau of Investigation press the Attorney General to launch a ruthless four-year legal battle to prevent fresh details of the States most famous crime from being made public, so many years after the case had been solved? Based on stunning new details discovered in the personal journals and archives of former KBI Director Harold Nyeand corroborated by letters written by Richard Hickock, one of the killers on Death RowAnd Every Word Is True meticulously lays out a vivid and startling new view of the investigation, one that will keep readers on the edge of their seats as they pick up where Capote left off. Even readers new to the story will find themselves drawn into a spellbinding forensic investigation that reads like a thriller, adding new perspectives to the classic tale of an iconic American crime.Sixty years after news of the 1959 Clutter murders took the world stage, And Every Word Is True pulls back the curtain for a suspenseful encore to the true story of In Cold Blood.PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (12/17/18) McAvoy, a dealer of collectible manuscripts and other memorabilia, delivers an often captivating addendum to the Clutter family murder case, immortalized in Truman Capotes In Cold Blood. When Ron Nye, the grown son of police investigator Harold Nye, finds a box of his late fathers papers, he contacts McAvoy about selling the material. Beyond his interest in the correspondence between Capote and Nye, McAvoys curiosity spikes after the Kansas attorney general demands the papers, claiming them to be the property of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Challenges to the veracity of In Cold Blood are in no way new, but McAvoy offers fresh details relating to Capotes embellishments and omissions, such as leaving out details concerning Bonnie and Herbert Clutters marriage and family reputation. McAvoy also explores the possibility that the killers, Richard Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, were hired, as suggested in handwritten documents by Hickock. Intriguingly, he also addresses the potential influence of law enforcement on Capotes work: a case could be made, then, that In Cold Blood was as much a product of the KBIs guiding hand as it was Capotes flowing pen. McAvoys disclosures are provocative, if not earthshaking; most notably, McAvoy echoes Capotes potent prose style and deep humanizing of his subjects, while broadening the conversation about truth, intention, and narrative representation.