Are true crime writing and crime fiction blurring, and how closely related are they?
? I do think that there is often an overlap between true crime writing and crime fiction. For example, the diary of a serial killer has been published in France – let’s hope no one buys it. And there are novels written as if trying to make the reader believe that they are true stories. (I think this is partly linked to the huge success of movies like The Blair Witch Project, which was shot to look like a documentary put together from actual footage). Some killers even find that their crime has been fictionalised and they are able to read their own story written up as a novel whilst still in jail. All those tendencies blur the frontier between fiction and reality.
