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Mark Obbie is a journalist who has spent his career writing about crime and courts. Based in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region, he is a full-time freelance writer with an interest in narrative storytelling focusing on violent crime’s causes and solutions. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Longreads, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Pacific Standard (formerly Miller-McCune magazine), Inc. magazine, and on Slate. He is the former executive editor of The American Lawyer, a small but renowned showcase for longform narrative journalism, and the editor and publisher of its affiliated Dallas-based weekly, Texas Lawyer. He started his career covering police and courts for daily newspapers in Ohio and Texas. From 2004 to 2012, Ob ...more

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Today I have a new story at The Crime Report that is a testament to persistence — or stubbornness. Back in December 2015, I went to St. Louis on an assignment for The New York Times. There I met a federal judge whose story interested me. My editors cut that part out of the story, … Continue reading An outtake’s third life → Read more of this blog post »

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	God's Nobodies: Misguided Faith and Murder in the Life of One American Family 3.56 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gottes Verlierer (Kindle Single) by Mark Obbie (Goodreads Author), Julia Knobloch (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Burning of the Valleys: Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780

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Hello, Goodreads friends. I'm finally getting my Goodreads act together with my own book lists and an author's page. I hope if you like my new Kindle Single, God's Nobodies, you'll review it both here and on Amazon (the Amazon ratings keep me on a coveted list of best rated, where my Single has been at the top for its first couple of weeks since publication). Thanks very much.

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