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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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Author:
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
January 21, 2020
A writer re-investigates the 1980 murder of two young women that occurred in the West Virginia county where she once lived. Thirteen years later, local farmer Jacob Beard was convicted and went to prison for the crimeâa decision later overturned in a new trial after a serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin had confessed to the murders.
What The Reviewers Say
... an evocative and elegantly paced examination of the murders that takes a prism-like view of the crime.
... a true crime tale as thoroughly researched and reported as it is perplexing.
This kind of meta-layering permeates Third Rainbow Girl, creating a reading experience that is both electric and cerebral, acute and obtuse.
I was pretty sure I was going to love Emma Copley Eisenberg's true crime/memoir hybrid on page one.
