Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast

by Pamela Colloff

320 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication July 14, 2026

About the author

Pamela Colloff (B.A., English Literature, Brown University) is a senior reporter at ProPublica and a writer-at-large at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she was an executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly; her work has also appeared in the New Yorker and has been anthologized in Best American Magazine Writing, Best American Crime Reporting, Best American Non-Required Reading, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists.

Colloff has been nominated for six National Magazine Awards—more than any other female writer in the award’s history—and won for feature writing in 2013. The following year, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awarded her the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.