CHAPTER 1 I was sitting in my office at Channel 10 News, drinking black coffee and skimming through the morning papers when I saw the article about Marty Barlow. It was a brief item about the murder of a man on an East Side New York City street. It identified the victim as Martin Barlow.…
Most crime stories have a beginning and an end. They start with the crime, then the investigation by law enforcement authorities—and finally the solving of the case. But that’s not the way it works with cold cases. All we have left is unanswered questions. Which is what makes cold cases so fascinating. As a longtime…
R.G. Belsky has forged an impressive, decades-long career in writing both fact and fiction. As a journalist, he served as metropolitan editor of the New York Post, managing editor of the New York Daily News, news editor at Star Magazine, and, most recently, a managing editor at NBC News. As a novelist, he’s published fourteen…
R.G. Belsky is a veteran journalist in New York City who has an extensive background in newspapers, magazines, and TV/digital news. A former managing editor at the New York Daily News, he has also been a top editor at the New York Post, Star magazine, and NBC News. Belsky brings that expertise to the realm…
Yesterday’s News is about a legendary missing-child cold case—and a journalist obsessed with finding out the answers to what really happened. When 11-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history. The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into…
