In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.
In Cold Blood was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning with the September 25, 1965 issue. In Cold Blood was first published in book form by Random House in January 1966.
