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Carolyn Murnick is an award-winning journalist, veteran magazine editor, and the author of the investigative memoir The Hot One, recommended by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and named a Best Book of the Year by Buzzfeed. She is a TEDx speaker and commentator on media outlets including NBC, CBS, and WNYC, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times and numerous anthologies.
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
Murder, Corruption and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
By Mandy Matney and Carolyn Murnick
Carolyn collaborated with celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney, for this highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty.
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“A journalist’s investigation into her childhood friend’s murder—a riveting subject on its own—is so much more in writer Carolyn Murnick’s hands. Murnick exposes the sticky complexity of female friendship and identity. She questions what our debts are to the dead and forces us to look at ourselves. Three pages in and I knew that I wouldn’t get anything else done. I inhaled The Hot One in 24 hours, riveted from its haunting preface to its heartbreaking final sentence.”
—Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of BRAIN ON FIRE: My Month of Madness
THE HOT ONE
A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart” (Cosmopolitan).
As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. While Carolyn struggled to fit in, Ashley quickly became a hot girl: popular, extroverted, and sexually precocious. Read More
