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The Popular Appeal of True Crime

by Mark Pinsky | Mar 15, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain

For years, true crime has been considered a low- and middle-brow guilty pleasure, dating back to the 19th century Police Gazette tabloids. To be sure, since then, there have been modern crossover exceptions – books like In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal...

A Validating Source for My Research on “Drifting Into Darkness”

by Mark Pinsky | Mar 8, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness

A curious aspect I’ve noticed over the years with nonfiction writing and broadcasting – newspapers, radio, magazines and books – is what information comes to you after publication or broadcast. The Importance of Validating Sources Time after time, I would write an...

“Drifting Into Darkness”: Prologue

by Mark Pinsky | Feb 25, 2022 | Drifting into Darkness, Excerpts

The Weston County courthouse, in Newcastle, Wyoming, is a majestic, three-story, sandstone and brick building. Four tall pillars support the front portico and a copper-plated, octagonal dome. It was built in 1911, two decades after Weston was carved out of neighboring...

Murder Times Two

by Mark Pinsky | Feb 1, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain

Hello friends (and future friends)! Welcome to the re-launch of my blog. On April 5, two of my nonfiction crime books will be released: Drifting into Darkness: Murders, Madness, Suicide, and a Death “Under Suspicious Circumstance from NewSouth Books of...
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