What is the author's tone in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote?

The tone of this novel is somber, but it lacks the dryness of a newspaper type reporting. Capote wanted to create a new literary genre, a non-fiction novel, and in doing this he wrote a book that is both a reporting of a true crime, but also a work filled with creativity and symbolism, a book that gives life to an otherwise simple reporting of events.