Compare to Capote's "In Cold Blood".? My assignment is to write a paper about how readers can easily sympathize with Grace Marks from the novel Alias Grace, even though she committed such an atrocious murder. On top of that, compare to the killers: Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. The same concept of sympathy for a murder is present. My assignment is to tie the two together.