[Updated January 2, 2023] Joseph Ratzinger, who as Benedict XVI was the first pope to quit in over 600 years, died today, December 31, age
Seasons Greetings! Lock and Load?
The War on Christmas 2021 Merry Christmas to everybody!! Will Santa Bring Bullets? The photo is a seasonal message from an American family that seems
The Endless Cultural Life of the Mafia, via My Substack
Life with the MafiaIn Popular Culture, the Mob Refuses to Sleep With the FishesJoe SharkeyNovember 22, 2021 “Just when I thought I was out, they
Those mixed REVIEWS FOR ‘ABOVE SUSPICION’
By JOE SHARKEY The Romans purportedly had a phrase, “De gustibus non est disputandum,” which means, roughly, there is no disputing matters of taste. Actually,
Finally, A U.S. Release Date for the Movie
Collider.com and Lionsgate both announced today that “Above Suspicion” will be released in U.S. theaters and on DVD next month. Here’s the exclusive on Collider:
‘Above Suspicion’ Podcast
I talk about the tragic twists and turns of ‘Above Suspicion’ for an hour today on Pete Lieb’s excellent podcast “Prove Me Wrong.” Pete, who
Now we’re killing the nuns
Catholic nuns are already vanishing from the scene, and now the Coronavirus is killing some of the old ones remaining. From the website Global Sisters
Early ‘Above Suspicion’ Reviews
Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter assigned British reviewers to the online release of Above Suspicion in the UK. The reviews are now starting to
The ‘Above Suspicion’ Distribution Clusterf***
Jeffrey Wells’s influential “Hollywood Elsewhere” column has done the movie world the favor of running down the story of the years’-long fiasco of distribution of
‘Above Suspicion’ Review in UK GUardian
There’s a review of Above Suspicion, the movie, in The Guardian, which is the only UK newspaper I take seriously. The Guardian has a strong
Priest Sexual Abuse Claims Tripled Last Year, and an Update on My In-Progress Book About the Catholic Church, “Wreckage”
Given the limited attention span of our national media and its strong disinclination to offend religion, you might think that the scandal of Catholic priests
A catastrophe over the Amazon, 13 years ago today
Late on the afternoon of September 29, 2006, I was on assignment on a business jet flying at 37,000 over the central Amazon in Brazil
A podcast on ‘Death Sentence’
Dan Zupansky interviewed me recently about “Death Sentence: for his popular podcast True Murder.
‘Death Sentence:’ the New Epilogue
My first true-crime book, Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders, was published in 1990, shortly after the atrocious List had been
New Epilogue for ‘Above Suspicion’
Author’s note: I watched “Game of Thrones” only twice, the first time in 2016, just a few days before I was headed to Kentucky as
‘Above Suspicion’ in the Middle East
“Above Suspicion” seems to be doing pretty well at the multiplexes in Cairo and Doha. I am told August release in the U.S., but no
The Amazing Emilia Clarke
In the current New Yorker, she writes eloquently about something few people knew: Surviving two brain aneurysms, with major brain surgery between seasons of Game
Packing for the Airport (cont’d)
Year by year, the number of guns found in passengers’ carry-on bags by Transportation Security Agency screeners at airport checkpoints soars, and 2018 was another
On the Road, In Search of a Good Day’s Sleep
Photo, above: Yotel’s crash pad facility at London Gatwick My column on the growing popularity of hotels by-the-hour catering to frazzled travelers as well as
‘Above Suspicion’ trailer…
Eagle Films, the Beirut-based Middle Eastern market distributor, has just released its trailer for “Above Suspicion” — with Arabic subtitles. If the producers are smart,
Italian Edition of Above Suspicion
So while we wait for the movie release date, here’s the Italian edition of Above Suspicion. ###
So release the damn movie already
British tabloid newspapers, you know the ones that breathlessly publish reports with photos of the members of the royal family walking their husbands, have been
That elusive release date for “Above Suspicion,” which wrapped 2 years ago in Kentucky
“Above Suspicion,” the movie, wrapped two years ago last month in the tiny eastern Kentucky mountain town of Harlan. The final day of the three-month
Poster for ‘Above Suspicion’ Movie
Release date unofficial but unofficially it’s October. Here’s the just-released poster for the movie.
About That Emilia Clarke and Reese Witherspoon Photo
I don’t pay attention to Hollywood online media hype, but I was amused by the frisson created earlier this month when Reese Witherspoon and Emilia
Reporting Rape is sometimes perilous: With an excerpt from “Above Suspicion”
Nestled among the usual sinecured twaddlers who occupy the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times sometimes are freelance essays by people who actually say
Charles Stuart, a Deadly Hoax, and the Credulous Boston Media in 1989
The Boston media demonstrated its inherent, subtle racism of the era when media-darling Charles Stuart, aided by his feckless kid brother Matthew, murdered his pregnant
From “The Lineup”
This today in “The Lineup,” not a bad group to be on top of … https://the-line-up.com/true-crime-authors-who-will-hook-you-on-the-genre?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Lineup%20Weekly%20Monday%20Newsletter%202017-11-13&utm_term=The%20Lineup
‘Death Sentence’ e-book featured on Kindle; New print edition coming in January
There’s been a lot of renewed interest this year in my true-crime book “Death Sentence,” the story of a seemingly mild-mannered Sunday school teacher who
Three-pack of my true-crime books
Open Road Media, a terrific publisher, has released a triple ebook package (titled “Fatal Deceptions”) of the revised 2017 editions of my true crime books
‘Above Suspicion:’ An Excerpt
Open Road Media has been aggressively promoting the revised and updated print and e-book 2017 editions of my book “Above Suspicion,” which was originally published
An African Safari Accounting…
A lot of people we know have taken African safaris, and generally these excursions are turning up often on people’s bucket lists. The great news:
Screening review of ‘Above Suspicion’
Director Phillip Noyce has been screening “Above Suspicion” to select blogger critics in Los Angeles, though no release date has been announced yet. Here’s one
The FBI’s take on ‘Above Suspicion’
Jim Huggins was the FBI supervisor who was dispatched to Pikeville, Ky., as the case of young FBI agent Mark Putnam plunged toward its tragic
‘ABOVE SUSPICION’ production stills…
MAY 23, 2017 — Here are some production stills released recently from the “Above Suspicion” shoot on location last summer in Harlan, Kentucky Movie release
Current reviews of new ‘Above Suspicion’ edition
In both print and e-book. Here are some current customer reviews: (The movie release date, set for 2017, has not yet been announced. Here are
‘Above Suspicion’in Open Road Media Catalogue, an excerpt
This is a blurb for the Open Road Media promotion of “Above Suspicion,” with an excerpt from the book. ABOVE SUSPICION: THE FBI AGENT WHO
John List, the New Jersey Sunday school teacher who murdered his family — and vanished into thin air for 18 years
Here’s the link to the Amazon listing of the revised edition of “Death Sentence.” On a cold day in November 1971, John Emil List, mild-mannered
‘Above Suspicion’ and the ‘Female Gaze’
By Joe Sharkey Here is the chief regret I had after researching my true-crime book “Above Suspicion” starting in 1992: The most interesting character in
The Girl From Lonesome Holler
By Joe Sharkey Susan Smith, 28 years old when she was killed in 1989, was a coal-miner’s daughter from one of the most desperately poor
Joe Sharkey 