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Farewell, Rick McBride, Friend and Justice Champion
Over the past month I have made two visits to St. Simons Island in hopes of completing research for our next cold case project, Murder in the Rectory, the 1938 shooting of the Rev. Charles Lee, of Christ Church Frederica (see my previous blog item, below, “New Murder,...
Guess Who’s Coming to Book Club? (Uninvited & Unannounced)
The Google Alert about my 2013 book was intriguing: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem Book Club - Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 5:30. We will meet at Slate’s Mercantile at 140 W Pine St., Mt. Airy – January's selection is “Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of...
New Case, New Blog Item
Latest update on our newest true crime project: the 1938 murder of Reverend Charles Lee, a second cousin of Robert E. Lee, on St. Simons Island, Ga., as he prepared his Sunday sermon, a killing that generated national headlines (...
Events & Appearances
Stay up-to-date on my upcoming events as I promote both Drifting into Darkness and Met Her on the Mountain.
Met Her on the Mountain
In the interest of due journalistic diligence for this piece for the North Carolina Assembly ( My 50-Year Obsession with an Unsolved Mountain Murder), I visited Richard Johnson earlier this week at the Nash Correctional Institute in eastern North Carolina, a trip not...
Ted and Dale Rosengarten
Last month my wife and I traveled to the Spoleto music festival in Charleston. S.C., in part to celebrate our wedding anniversary (43). While there, we also met with my collaborators in our latest, cold case, nonfiction project: “Murder in the Rectory.” For now, I’ll...
True Crime: An Immersive Theatrical Experience
There are few things I like more than setting my feet on the soil of Madison County, especially after a long absence. A part of me will always be there. I’m recently back from an eventful, long weekend in Hot Springs, Marshall and Mars Hill, where the leaves were near...
Lessons from the 1898 Wilmington coup: Is history repeating? | Raleigh News & Observer
Opinion By Mark I. Pinsky August 17, 2023 10:16 AM I’ve finally gotten around to listening to David Zucchino’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2021 book “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy.” Zucchino, who won the 2022 North Carolina...
Pinsky appears on Oxygen Sat. 4/29 at 9 pm
As I hoped, I got a decent amount of screen time last night on CNBC's "Blood & Money" episode on the Hood murders in the 1990s, which I covered for the LA Times. The episode will be rebroadcast Sat., April 29, on the Oxygen network, at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 Central. I am...
Law & Order, Blood & Money – and Me: Dun-Dun
As you may remember, I posted a blog item here last August about a quick trip I made to Southern California. There I taped an interview for a new true crime streaming and cable series. It’s called Blood & Money, and it’s from Dick Wolf Entertainment, the creators...
An Intriguing Development
Recently, I was contacted by two students from Shepherd University in West Virginia, Devin Mattei and Hailey Knotts. They informed me that their English 102 class is focusing on true crime this semester, and the students have been given the task of following one case...
My Recent Podcast Episode of Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words
I’m thrilled to share that I was recently featured on the popular podcast Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words to discuss my book Drifting Into Darkness.
Looking At the Origins of Modern True Crime Writing
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century Truman Capote’s groundbreaking, nonfiction classic, In Cold Blood—a gripping account of the 1959 slaughter of a wealthy Kansas farm family— instantly established the writer’s...
The Campaign for Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools
I take a short break from book news to share with you a recent article about Julius Rosenwald and efforts to turn his great project of small primary schools for rural African Americans across the South, into a National Historical Park.
My Latest Book Tour
Follow along on my latest book tour as I attend the annual Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia and return to Troy University for a speaking session.
A Return to Madison County
I went back to Madison County for the rededication of the Anderson Rosenwald School in the Long Ridge neighborhood, just outside Mars Hill.
On the True Crime Trail: Death Times Two with Jim Hood
As we’re working behind-the-scenes on some upcoming book promotion events, I thought this true crime book review of “The Poisonous Solicitor” by Stephen Bates might be of interest to you.
My Review of “The Poisonous Solicitor” by Stephen Bates
As we’re working behind-the-scenes on some upcoming book promotion events, I thought this true crime book review of “The Poisonous Solicitor” by Stephen Bates might be of interest to you.
Promoting “Drifting Into Darkness” in North Carolina: Back in the Tar Heel State
After a brief rest in Durham following our return from Alabama, I headed west to promote my latest book, Drifting Into Darkness, as well as the updated, paperback edition of Met Her on the Mountain.
My Alabama Book Tour for “Drifting Into Darkness”
To start, on June 9th, nearly 50 people showed up at NewSouth’s retail outlet, the Read Herring bookstore downtown, which is stuffed full of excellent new and used books.