> Skip to content
Matt Birkbeck

Matt Birkbeck

Book for an event


Matt Birkbeck is an award winning investigative journalist and author of A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst. His work has appeared in Reader's Digest, People magazine, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.

Books by Matt Birkbeck

A Deadly Secret

The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentaryThe Jinx - scheduled to air on Fox in Australia in May - have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst’s NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey—the very book found in Durst’s own apartment when it was searched by police.

Read more