Finding Chandra
A True Washington Murder Mystery
Washington’s In Cold Blood, expertly and marvelously told by two of journalism’s greatest investigative reporters.
— Bob Woodward, author of All the President’s Men
The authors
Sari Horwitz
Sari Horwitz spent about four decades at The Washington Post, from the night police beat in 1986 to its investigative staff. She has shared in four Pulitzer Prizes: Public Service in 1999, Investigative Reporting in 2002, Breaking News Reporting in 2008 and National Reporting in 2018.
Her books include Sniper, written with Michael Ruane, Justice in Indian Country, and two with Scott Higham: Finding Chandra and American Cartel.
Scott Higham
Scott Higham joined the Post in 2000 and shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with Horwitz and Sarah Cohen. He reported on abuse at Abu Ghraib and was a lead reporter on “The Opioid Files”.
In the fall of 2000, a young woman from an upper-middle-class California family left the West Coast for Washington, D.C. to begin an internship at the federal Bureau of Prisons. Seven months after arriving in Washington, Chandra signed off her computer inside her Dupont Circle apartment on a warm spring day and went for a walk in her gym clothes. She was never heard from again. Six years later, two investigative reporters revisited Washington’s most famous unsolved murder.
About this edition
- Publisher
- Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
- Published
- May 11, 2010
- Format
- Hardcover, 304 pages
- ISBN (hardcover)
- 978-1-4391-3867-0
- ISBN (paperback)
- 978-1-4391-3869-4
- Recognition
- Nominee, Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Mystery Writers of America, 2011
Praise
A remarkably detailed, straight-up exposé of bureaucratic incompetence and human folly, set against the alluring backdrop of Washington.
— The New York Times Book Review
Disturbing and unforgettable.
— People
There’s not a spare word or pointless sentence in Finding Chandra, a crisp retelling of the missing-intern mystery that consumed cable news in the summer of 2001.
— Miami Herald
A triumph of investigative journalism.
— San Francisco Chronicle
An exhaustive and authoritative account.
— The Wall Street Journal
A meticulous study of the case and the media circus surrounding it.
— Publishers Weekly
Fine reporting and behind-the-scenes drama; a must for true-crime fans.
— Booklist
Essential for those interested in true crime mysteries or the world of Washington, DC, politics.
— Library Journal
A well-reported, well-written chronicle of a botched criminal investigation and its disturbing aftermath.
— Kirkus Reviews