Christopher Goffard

About Christopher Goffard

Christopher Goffard is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author, and podcaster. He is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best First Novel. His podcast Dirty John has been downloaded more than 50 million times.

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Upcoming Titles

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  The Windowman December 8, 2026

  A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2026! An accused LA serial killer disappears after being released on appeal, triggering a nationwide manhunt and descent into obsession that will thrill fans of Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy. With a series of occult slayings, a killer known as “the Windowman” terrorizes Southern California and sends the media into overdrive. Damon Midnight goes down for the crimes, but a botched prosecution sets him free. As he starts a new life in an idyllic suburb, he vanishes—and three intertwining narratives explore his public and private faces.

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Earlier Books

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  Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders November 13, 2018

  Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than twenty million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society.

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  You Will See Fire November 28, 2011

  A nonfiction mystery dwelling on timeless themes: an individual’s stand against corruption, the complexity of the human heart. Whether gunning down a warthog, raising the beams he'd hewn himself for a new church, or standing up for landless refugees and abused girls, Father John Kaiser was a figure larger than life. He was fierce in his commitments, devoted to the poor and displaced, and fearless—what some would call reckless—in the pursuit of justice.

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  Snitch Jacket 2007

  Combining elements of classic noir, dark comedy, and a misfits memoir reminiscent of Notes from the Underground, Goffard brings life to the darker side of West Coast counter-culture, in a literary crime novel that will delight readers.

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More New Books Coming Up

• A Magical Girl Rehired by Seolyeon Park · Dec 8
• Beware of Chicken 6 by CasualFarmer · Dec 8
• Compulsively Yours by Allison Raskin · Dec 8
• Cygnus by Marko Kloos · Dec 8
• Fetal Position by Carolyn Huynh · Dec 8
• Just in Time by Emily Wibberley · Dec 8
• Last Ride by Craig Alanson · Dec 8
• Lina & June by Genevieve Wheeler · Dec 8
• The Chaperones by Amy Meyerson · Dec 8
• What's Your Name, Who'd You Kill? by Benjamin Stevenson · Dec 8

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