Downloaded 67,000 times and counting, with hundreds of three- and four-star reviews. This fast-paced mystery, published by Amazon Original Stories, was based on a front-page story I wrote for The Seattle Times, “She stole another’s identity, and took her secret to the grave. Who was she?” Amateur sleuths around the globe tried to solve the case as the story went viral.
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Coaches Who Prey
This yearlong project, published as a four-day series in 2003, now seems prescient: an investigation of sexual abuse by high school coaches, and the system that allowed them to flourish. Told through scores of in-depth interviews with sex abuse victims, perpetrators, parents and educators, the series changed lives and changed laws. It’s been cited in everything from Title IX textbooks to instructional material for police investigators. All thanks to the young women who had the courage to come forward.
Aging father agonizes over fate of his son
A story about a loving father, a seriously autistic son, and an agonizing choice. Also, a story about a growing public health issue: as people with severe disabilities are living longer than ever before, they’re being cared for by increasingly elderly parents.
A year later: Cafe Racer lives on
One year after a gunman opened fire in a small, quirky Seattle café, I got the assignment to go back and talk to victims’ families and survivors. A portrait not only of grief but also of love and healing that won praise from victims, police, and strangers alike.
Modernist Bread: The Art and Science
Favorably reviewed in everything from The New York Times to Martha Stewart to Physics World, this five-volume set tells the story of bread, in every way imaginable. Authored by Nathan Myhrvold, former chief strategist and technology officer at Microsoft and award-winning chef Francisco Migoya.
Kids battle the lure of junk food
How do you draw readers in when the subject already had been overcovered? Tell the story in a fresh way. We get inside the heads of children struggling with obesity and walk with parents as they’re judged by friends and strangers. A companion piece explores the government’s flawed efforts to combat America’s expanding waistlines.
School lunch
School lunch. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of meals. But is the criticism fair? This piece is a primer on America’s most regulated, thought-about, and fought-over meal, exploring everything from public policy, to calorie counts to the pros and cons of chicken nuggets.
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