About

I’m a writer.

My newest book is: Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory (Ecco, 2009).  The book before that was The Restless Sleep:  Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad, (Viking.)

I am also an occasional contributer to the NPR show, All Things Considered, and I run an online service called Echo.

If it’s not obvious already you will soon see I am way too attached to my cats Buddy (the gray one) and Finney (the black one), aka Satan’s Fur Puppets.

I call them that because they love to kill cute little mice while allowing these horrible flying cockroach things that occasionally show up to live.  I could go on.