The Pastor's Wife (book)

The Pastor's Wife
AuthorDiane Fanning
LanguageEnglish
GenreTrue crime, Biography
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date
2008
Published in English
2008
Pages320 pp (Paperback ed)
ISBN0-312-94929-4

The Pastor's Wife: The Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death That Divided a Family, by author and novelist Diane Fanning, is a true-crime account of Pastor Matthew Winkler, who was found fatally wounded from a shotgun blast to his back in 2006 at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee. The book was released by St. Martin's True Crime Library in November 2008.

The book was the basis for a made-for-TV movie of the same title released by Lifetime Television on November 5, 2011.[1]