"Manteris and co-author Birkbeck have created a gripping narrative that reads in places like a treatment for a Martin Scorsese Film." KIRKUS
THE BOOKIE
By Art Manteris and Matt Birkbeck
Now Available Everywhere!
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It began with a picture — one that, when examined closer, opened up a twisted and heartbreaking 30-year mystery.
The true-crime documentary Girl in the Picture dives into the story of Sharon Marshall, as she goes from being an ambitious teenager with a scholarship to Georgia Tech to a woman with a 2-year-old son, forced by her abusive husband to work as a stripper. Her eventual tragic murder leads to an investigation of her true identity and the federal fugitive who happened to be at the center of it all. Investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck, who first wrote about this saga in his bestselling novels A Beautiful Child and Finding Sharon, is the film’s executive producer. Directed by Skye Borgman, Girl in the Picture was Netflix's #1 movie in the world following its July 2022 release.   |
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THE WICKED A star reporter who lost his journalistic edge to a life of glamor and excess attends the funeral of a Catholic priest in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. But when he questions the priest's death, he quickly recovers his investigative skills to learn this charming Pennsylvania tourist town - once the coal mining capital of the nation - has secrets so unimaginable, he finds himself in a deadly struggle for his new love, his life, and his very soul. Now available in hardcover and paperback! "Matt Birkbeck, best known for his gripping nonfiction bestsellers like 'The Life We Chose', 'Deconstructing Sammy', and the haunting 'A Beautiful Child' (which inspired Netflix’s acclaimed Girl in the Picture), makes a stunning leap into fiction with The Wicked—and what a leap it is." Alan R. Warren, host of the nationally syndicated House of Mystery Radio Show on NBC
"A page-turner where the plotting and pacing are so outstanding, you are glued to the book until the very last sentence."
Don Armnstrong |
Barnes & Noble, Wilkes-Barre, PA
  Thanks to Kim and Laura, who each drove three hours (from south Jersey and Gaithersburg, MD) to join me at Barnes & Noble for THE WICKED signing 10/25.
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